THESE GUIDELINES ARE FULLY CONSISTENT WITH THE COPE PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPARENCY AND BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES AND THE COPE CODE OF CONDUCT.

Editor's Duties

Publication Decisions
The Editorial Board will decide, based on the Abstracts submitted, which will be published in each
issue. The Editorial Board may confer with the Scientific Board as part of the decision-making
process. The Editorial Board is constrained by copyright infringement and plagiarism. After
acceptance the Editorial Board should not overturn its decision to publish unless serious problems
are identified with the submission.

Fair play
The Editorial Board evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content regardless of race,
gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the
authors. The Editorial Board’s decision to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based
only on the paper's importance, originality and clarity and the study's relevance to the aim of
journal.

Confidentiality
The Editorial Board, the Scientific Board and any editorial staff must not disclose any information
about a submitted manuscript. Editors will ensure that material submitted remains confidential
while under review.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own
research without the author’s consent. The Editorial Board and its decisions are completely
independent from the Publisher.

Procedures for dealing with unethical behaviour
Unethical behaviour may be identified and brought to the attention of the editorial board and
publisher at any time, by anyone. Whoever informs the editorial board and publisher of such
conduct should provide sufficient information and evidence in order for an investigation to be
initiated. If plagiarism is found after publishing, the Editorial Board will contact the author for a
response to the allegations. In cases of proven plagiarism or no-response/non-adequate response, the offending paper will be retracted and a statement from the publisher will be
inserted in its place in the relevant journal issue.

 

Reviewer's Duties

Contribution to editorial improvements
Recommendations by peer reviewers should be transmitted, by the editorial staff, to the authors
aiming improvements of the manuscripts.

Promptness
If the reviewer feels unqualified to review the research in the manuscript or knows that a prompt
review on his/hers behalf will not be possible, he/she should notify the editorial staff and the
Editorial Board and excuse himself/herself from the review process.

Confidentiality
Reviewers must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript. Editors and
reviewers should ensure that material submitted remains confidential while under review.

Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.
Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment of Sources and Identification of Possible Plagiarism
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
Statements, observations or arguments previously reported should be accompanied by a relevant
citation. A reviewer should also call the editor’s attention to any substantial similarity or overlap
between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have
personal knowledge.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own
research without consent from the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through the
peer-review process must be kept confidential and not be used for personal advantage.
Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from
competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors,
companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

 

Author's Duties

Originality and plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have
used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Authors found to have plagiarized material will be withdrawn from publication consideration. If plagiarism
is found after publishing, the Editorial Board will contact the author for a response to the
allegations. In cases of proven plagiarism or no-response/non-adequate response, the offending
paper will be retracted and a statement from the publisher will be inserted in its place in the
relevant journal issue.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
An author should not submit for consideration in another journal a previously published paper.
Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical
publishing behaviour.

Acknowledgement of sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of other should must always be given. Authors should cite
publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the
conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made
significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who participated
in certain substantial aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledge are listed as
contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors have seen
and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and
approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of
interest that might be influence the results or interpretation of the manuscript. All sources of
financial support for the support for the project should be disclosed

Fundamental Errors in Published Work
When an author discovers significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the
author’s obligation to promptly notify the Editorial Board and to work with the editorial team to
correct or retract the paper.