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Ethical Guidelines Authors are expected to adhere
to the following ethical guidelines; infractions may result in the
application of sanctions by the editor(s), including but not limited to the
suspension or revocation of publishing privileges. 1. An author’s central obligation is to
present an accurate account of the research performed as well as an objective
discussion of its significance. 2. An author should recognize that journal
space is a precious resource created at considerable cost. An author
therefore has an obligation to use it wisely and economically. 3. A primary research report should contain
sufficient detail and reference to public sources of information to permit
the author’s peers to repeat the work. When requested, the authors should
make a reasonable effort to provide samples of unusual materials unavailable
elsewhere to other researchers, with appropriate material transfer agreements
to restrict the field of use of the materials so as to protect the legitimate
interests of the authors. 4. An author should cite those publications
that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work and
that will guide the reader quickly to the earlier work that is essential for
understanding the present investigation. Except in a review, citation of work
that will not be referred to in the reported research should be minimized. An
author is obligated to perform a literature search to find, and then cite,
the original publications that describe closely related work. For critical
materials used in the work, proper citation to sources should also be made
when these were supplied by a nonauthor. 5. Any unusual hazards inherent in the
chemicals, equipment, or procedures used in an investigation should be
clearly identified in a manuscript reporting the work. 6. Fragmentation of research reports should
be avoided. A scientist who has done extensive work on a system or group of
related systems should organize publication so that each report gives a
well-rounded account of a particular aspect of the general study.
Fragmentation consumes journal space excessively and unduly complicates
literature searches. The convenience of readers is served if reports on
related studies are published in the same journal, or in a small number of
journals. 7. In submitting a manuscript for
publication, an author should inform the editor of related manuscripts that
the author has under editorial consideration or in press. Copies of those
manuscripts should be supplied to the editor, and the relationships of such
manuscripts to the one submitted should be indicated. 8. It is improper for an author to submit
manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more than one journal
of primary publication, unless it is a resubmission of a manuscript rejected
for or withdrawn from publication. It is generally permissible to submit a
manuscript for a full paper expanding on a previously published brief
preliminary account (a “communication” or “letter”) of the same work.
However, at the time of submission, the editor should be made aware of the
earlier communication, and the preliminary communication should be cited in
the manuscript. 9. An author should identify the source of
all information quoted or offered, except that which is common knowledge.
Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or
discussion with third parties, should not be used or reported in the author’s
work without explicit permission from the investigator with whom the
information originated. Information obtained in the course of confidential
services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, should be
treated similarly. 10. An experimental or theoretical study
may sometimes justify criticism, even severe criticism, of the work of
another scientist. When appropriate, such criticism may be offered in
published papers. However, in no case is personal criticism considered to be
appropriate. 11. The co-authors of a paper should be all
those persons who have made significant scientific contributions to the work
reported and who share responsibility and accountability for the results.
Other contributions should be indicated in a footnote or an “Acknowledgments”
section. An administrative relationship to the investigation does not of
itself qualify a person for co-authorship (but occasionally it may be
appropriate to acknowledge major administrative assistance). Deceased persons
who meet the criterion for inclusion as co-authors should be so included,
with a footnote reporting date of death. No fictitious name should be listed
as an author or coauthor. The author who submits a manuscript for publication
accepts the responsibility of having included as co-authors all persons
appropriate and none inappropriate. The submitting author should have sent
each living co-author a draft copy of the manuscript and have obtained the
co-author’s assent to co-authorship of it. 12. The authors should reveal to the editor
and to the readers of the journal any potential and/or relevant competing
financial or other interest that might be affected by publication of the
results contained in the authors’ manuscript. Sources of funding of the
research reported should be clearly stated. In addition, all authors should
declare (1) the existence of any significant financial interest (>$10,000
or >5% equity interest) in corporate or commercial entities dealing with
the subject of the manuscript; (2) any employment or other relationship
(within the past three years) with entities that have a financial or other
interest in the results of the manuscript (to include paid consulting, expert
testimony, honoraria, and membership of advisory boards or committees of the
entity). The authors should advise the editor in writing either that there is
no conflict of interest to declare, or should disclose potential conflict of
interests that will be acknowledged in the published article, whether by
insertion of a footnote, or incorporation of a sentence or paragraph in the
“acknowledgments” section, or by other format of disclosure to the reader as
specified by the journal. 13. Plagiarism is not acceptable in jESE. We adhere to the following
definition of plagiarism “the appropriation of another person’s ideas,
processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. Authors
should not engage in plagiarism - verbatim or near-verbatim copying, or very
close paraphrasing, of text or results from another’s work. Authors should
not engage in self-plagiarism (also known as duplicate publication) -
unacceptably close replication of the author’s own previously published text
or results without acknowledgement of the source. jESE applies a “reasonable person” standard when deciding whether
a submission constitutes self-plagiarism/duplicate publication. If one or two
identical sentences previously published by an author appear in a subsequent
work by the same author, this is unlikely to be regarded as duplicate
publication. Material quoted verbatim from the author’s previously published
work must be placed in quotation marks. In contrast, it is unacceptable for an
author to include significant verbatim or near-verbatim portions of his/her
own work, or to depict his/her previously published results or methodology as
new, without acknowledging the source. 14. Research involving animals must be
performed in accordance with institutional guidelines as defined by European
Union Directive 86/609/EEC on the
protection of Animals used for Experimental and other scientific purposes
or an equivalent regulatory document in other countries. Research studies
involving humans must have institutional review board approval. Authors are
requested to identify the institutional or licensing committee that has
approved the experiments. For research involving animals or humans, editors
reserve the right to request additional information from authors. Copyrights & Permissions For Authors Open Access means: · Authors retain all copyrights - authors will not be forced to sign any copyright transfer agreement. · permission of re-use of the published material, given proper accreditation (Creative Commons Attribution License) Authors must obtain permission to reproduce any material (artwork, tables or any quotation) which does not fall into the public domain, or for which they do not hold the copyright. Permission should be requested by the authors from the copyrightholder (please refer to the imprint of publication to identify the copyrightholder). Permission is required for: · your own works published by other Publishers and for which you did not retain copyright, ·
substantial extracts from anyone’s · use of any part of publication (tables, graphs, schemes….) if they are unchanged or slightly modified, and · Photos and micrographs for which you do not hold copyright. Permission is not required for: · your own table with data already published elsewhere. In this case you must cite the source of the data (for example: "Data from..." or "Adapted from..."), · reasonably short quotes and · parts of publication (tables, graphs, schemes….) that are completely redrawn by the authors and significantly changed beyond recognition. We recommend you start collecting the permissions as early as possible; in order to avoid unnecessary delays in the publication process, If in any doubt about the copyright, you should apply for permission. We cannot publish material from other publications without permission. The copyright holder may give you instructions on the form of permission to be followed; otherwise follow the form: "Reproduced with permission from [Author], [Book/Journal title, Vol, pp]; published by [Publisher], [year].' at the end of the caption of the tables, graphs, scheme or any artwork. |
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