Responsibilities of Authors
- All manuscripts must be previously unpublished, and not under consideration for publication in another journal.
- All manuscripts must be original work of the authors. Plagiarized manuscripts will not be accepted.
- Authorship of a manuscript should be limited to only authors who have made a significant contribution to the work.
- Authors shall disclose all financial or other conflict of interests that might influence the results of the manuscript and acknowledge individuals or organizations that have provided financial support for the research.
Responsibility of Reviewers
- Reviewers shall keep all papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
- Reviewers shall inform the Editorial Board of any conflict of interest, or if the double blind nature of the peer-review has been compromised.
- Reviewers shall complete their reviews within the allowed timeframe.
Responsibilities of Editorial Board Members
- The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board members are responsible for making decisions on the content of the manuscripts submitted to the journal.
- The journal uses a double blind peer review process. The Editor-in-Chief and members of the Editorial Board shall not reveal either the identity of authors of manuscripts to the reviewers, or the identity of reviewers to authors.
- Editorial Board members shall not use content disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research without the author's prior written consent.
- Editors shall conduct ethical and fair investigation into ethical complaints.
