Ethics Statement

Policy against plagiarism and improper research conduct

 

In conformity with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics(COPE), which are designed to encourage the identification of plagiarism, improper practices, fraud, possible ethics violations, intellectual property and the opening of inquiries, we inform:

1. Authors must visit the COPE website http://publicationethics.org, which contains information for authors and editors about research ethics.

2. Guidelines:

- articles that include data or analysis from other publications must cite them explicitly;
- articles that contain a critical review of the intellectual content of other authors, must properly cite these authors;
- researchers who do not actively and substantially participate in all the phases of research and writing of an article should not be included in the list of authors. The editor can request formal explanations about the participation in the production of the article by the authors attributed to the article, and it is up to the editor to accept or not the submission in the manner that the authorship was presented;
- all of the authors must meet the criteria for original authorship of the article and none of the researchers involved in the study can be omitted from this list of authors.

3. To meet the criteria, the following procedures will be conducted:

- The editors will evaluate the manuscripts with the CrossCheck system, soon after the evaluation of the form of the manuscripts. At this time, the textual content of the articles will be evaluated, seeking to identify plagiarism, duplicated submissions, manuscripts that have been previously published and possible research fraud.

- Based on the results, the editor and editorial board will be responsible for deciding if the manuscript will be sent for peer review;

- After acceptance and before publication, the articles can be evaluated once again.