Affiliation
The primary affiliation of each author should be the institution where most of their work is conducted. If the author has moved since writing the article, the current address may be provided. Addresses will not be updated or changed after publication.
Authorship
Only those persons who have made a significant contribution to the content of the article may be listed as authors. The contribution to the text and its importance must be certified by all authors in the statement of originality and in the license agreement. Persons who have not made a significant contribution to the content of the article (e.g., only organized the study, prepared equipment, collected data, or checked the article for language) should be mentioned in the acknowledgements with a description of their role, but may not appear on the list of authors. All authors are responsible for the content of the article, unless the division of labor between the authors is clearly indicated in the statement of originality. Any doubts regarding the authorship of an article will be investigated by the journal’s Editorial Board.
Changes of authorship
It is recommended that authors present the correct team, which includes the authors, the corresponding author, and the order in which the work was submitted. Any changes to the list of authors after submission of the article, such as changing the order of authors, removing or adding authors, must be approved by each author. Changes in authorship by adding or removing authors and/or changes in the corresponding author and/or changes in the order of authors are not permitted after the manuscript has been accepted.
Please note that the authors’ names will be published exactly as they appear on the accepted submission.
Please ensure that all authors’ names are present and correctly spelled, and that addresses and affiliations are up to date.
Adding and/or removing authors during the review process is generally not permitted, but may be justified in some cases. Reasons for such changes in authorship should be explained. Approval of changes at the verification stage is at the discretion of the editor-in-chief.
Author identification
It is strongly recommended that authors use their ORCID ID when submitting an article for consideration or obtain an ORCID ID during the submission process.
Authors who are deceased or unable to work
In cases where a co-author has died or become incapacitated during the writing, submission or review process, and the co-authors believe it is appropriate to include him/her, the co-authors should obtain the consent of the (legal) representative, who may be a direct relative.
Confidentiality
Authors should treat all communication with the journal as confidential, including correspondence with journal representatives such as the editors-in-chief and/or managing editors, as well as reviewer reports, unless explicit permission to share the information has been obtained.
Authorship issues
In the event of a dispute over authorship during the review process or after acceptance and publication, the journal will not be able to investigate or resolve the dispute. Authors will be asked to resolve the dispute themselves. If they are unable to do so, the journal reserves the right to withdraw the manuscript from the editorial process or, in the case of a published article, to raise the issue with the author’s institution(s) and follow its (their) guidelines.
Originality
Submitted articles should contain original material that has not been previously published in any publication with an ISBN, ISSN, DOI or other publication identification number. It is unacceptable to submit the same text to different journals at the same time. If an article has been submitted to one journal, you must wait for the editorial decision and only submit it to another journal if it has not been accepted.
Methodological fraud
Fraud in the description of research results is a serious violation of ethical principles. Fraud occurs when data has not been collected in the manner described in the methodology section of the article, or when the conclusions drawn are not justified by the collected material. Authors should describe the research methodology in detail: the method of sample selection, the tools and equipment used, and the methods and techniques of data analysis. In order to enable the verification of procedures and conclusions, authors are required to keep the raw data for at least five years after the publication of articles using it.
Counteracting ghost writing and guest authorship
It is unacceptable to include a colleague on the list of authors as a courtesy or to include a well-known person in order to increase the chances of an article’s acceptance. It is equally unacceptable to omit the actual authorship of persons who contributed to the article. If the article is based on the thesis of a student or doctoral student, they should be listed as co-authors of the article.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the use of another author’s work (all or part of a published or unpublished text, as well as data and theoretical ideas) without indicating this in the article. Detailed guidelines on how to cite other people’s achievements (texts, theoretical ideas, results and conclusions) are provided in the “Rules for referencing other publications”. The same rules apply when the author uses his/her own previously published texts. All opinions contained in the article that are not explicitly attributed to other authors are considered to be the author’s own contribution. The editorial team uses anti-plagiarism software, and any copyright infringements will be dealt with accordingly.
Protection of third party intellectual property
The author may quote extensive excerpts from texts or graphic material from other people’s works in the article only with the written consent of the copyright holder. In the case of works by persons who died no later than 70 years ago, the author is obliged to obtain consent from the heirs of these rights. The source of each borrowed element of the text must be described with the exact page number.
Conflict of interest on the part of the author
A conflict of interest arises when the pursuit of scientific truth conflicts with other objectives of the researcher, for example when the research is funded by an organization that has an interest in a specific outcome of the research. Conflicts of interest may also be non-financial. Authors of articles are required to disclose any actual or potential conflicts of interest in the cover letter to the editor and in the statement of originality. The Editorial Board will decide whether the disclosed conflict will be noted in a footnote to the article.
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