Article publishing ethics
Publications should be scientific-research articles, problem-based and innovative.
The author and active persons in the journal (editor, editorial board members, editor-in-chief, and publisher) must accept and agree with the ethics and regulations of the journal.
The COPE ethics charter is a guideline for authors and contributors to publications.
Publishing decisions
Copyright regulations and copying other literary works must be observed by the publication and the rights of individuals should be also protected at the time of publication.
Making fair decisions about the articles
Decisions about the articles should be made at any stage regardless of the authors’ race, gender, orientations, religious beliefs, ethnicity, citizenship, or political philosophy.
Confidentiality of information
The personal information of the authors of the articles should be kept strictly confidential to all persons who have access to it, such as the editor, members of the editorial board and the internal and executive director of the journal, and other active actors (other than the author). The mentioned information must be protected at any time.
Observing the authors’ rights
The possibility of citing the results of other people's research should be done with reference and asking for their written permission.
The reviewers’ responsibilities
1- Helping the editorial’s decisions
The reviewers should assist the editors of the journal concerning the quality, content and scientific review of the articles or help to improve and enhance the quality and content of the articles through the communication of the editorial members with the authors.
2- Speed of action
The selected reviewers should immediately inform the editor of the publication about the results after the initial review, which includes:
Not reviewing the article due to the inconsistencies of the article and the reviewer’s scope of examining, lack of enough reviewing time, and so on.
Delayed reviewing will be due to busy time, lack of access to sufficient facilities, and so on.
3- Confidentiality of information
All information in the articles should be considered confidential to the reviewer and the reviewer should try to keep it confidential too.
4- Reviewing based on presenting scientific and transparent documents and discussion
Reviewing the articles should be based on sufficient scientific documents and reasoning should be clearly stated and these documents should be presented to publication and authors, and the reviewers should refrain from expressing their, personal, racial and religious opinions while reviewing the submitted articles.
5- Paying attention to the resources used in the article
Paying attention to the resources used in the article is another task of the reviewers. All previous studies, topics and citations used in the article should be accompanied by a complete reference in the references section at the end of the article.
6- Lack of reviewing the articles for personal interests
The reviewers should not accept articles for which personal financial interests or the interests of certain institutions and companies are seen or on which personal relationships may affect.
The authors’ responsibilities
1- Presenting scientific and standard articles
Authors of the articles should have written their articles scientifically and coherently according to the standards of publications. The method used in the article should be done accurately and objectively and the data should be reported correctly. The authors should observe the rights of other people in the article through full citations. They should also refrain from expressing sensitive and immoral issues, tastes and personalities, race and religion, and false and inaccurate information and translations of other people's works using plagiarism.
2- Providing the editor with the required data if needed
The author should be asked to submit the necessary data, interviews, questionnaires, and other research tools while needed. Public access to this information (according to ALPSP-STM statement) helps the authors improve their articles
3- The originality of the presented article
Articles submitted by the authors should be their own work and any use of other people's research should be cited in the article.
4- Not submitting an already accepted or published article in any other journal
It is against the journal regulations to submit an article to several publications or send the published or accepted articles to other publications at the same time.
5- Having appropriate citations
Citations should include all books, publications and internet sites and other personal studies in the reference section of the article.
The names of the corresponding author and other authors contributing to the article must be written and those people who have not had any role in developing the article should NOT be mentioned in the list of the authors.
The corresponding author is the person who has played a major role in the writing, designing and emailing related to the article, and other authors should be mentioned as collaborators in the article. Make sure there are no names other than the authors of the article. Also, it has been taken for granted that all authors of the article have read and agreed to submit it.
Informing about the possible dangers to people or other living organisms
Any dangers for people or other creatures by any author's research should be clearly stated in the article.
Mentioning financial support
Authors should also introduce all financial supporters for their articles.
Reporting major errors in articles
Whenever the author notices any error or carelessness in his article, (s)he should inform the publication about it, take action to correct it or if (s)he cannot do the corrections, (s)he can ignore the publishing of his/her article..