Peer review is fundamental to maintaining the standards of Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada, a journal that aims to innovate and advance the applied field of language studies. We work to offer appropriate digital systems and editorial advice to our peer reviewers. We ensure that our peer review process is blind, fair and critically constructive. Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada does not allow unkind or offensive criticism in its peer review reports. The journal's editorial board works together with the reviewers to assess the quality and suitability of the manuscripts and to provide critically constructive contributions to the authors. 

With regard to pre-evaluation, Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada works with its editorial team to assess the quality and formal suitability of articles prior to peer review. Our team also seeks to detect plagiarism or self-plagiarism in manuscripts. However, reviewers are also asked to check manuscripts for potential (self-)plagiarism.

Taking into account open science practices and SciELO's methodology of classifying reviews as a new type of literature, when publishing approved articles, authors and reviewers may, by mutual agreement, choose: 

• the option of interacting directly with the corresponding author
• publishing the approval reports together with the manuscripts, with or without identifying the reviewers. 

The journal publishes the names of the publishers or editors responsible for the evaluation in its approved articles.