A) Editor-in-Chief’s Code of Ethics
1. Editor- in- chief respects and believes in writers’ independent thought.
2. Chief editor’s view towards the sent articles to journal is unbiased and the articles are evaluated based on their efficiency irrespective of the writers’ race, religion, nationality, gender, organizational rank and connections, and other concerns.
3. Editor- in- chief examines all the received articles in due course.
4. The final acceptance or rejection of an article is solely lies within the responsibility of the editor- in- chief. This decision is made based on the opinions received from the referees, and the members of the journal’s editorial board. It is possible that an article gets rejected due to its incompatibility with the chief editor’s view in which case the article does not enter the judicial process; rejection of the articles may also be due to their subjects irrelevance, outdated theme as far as the subject matter of the journal is concerned, not having the required depth and other issues.
5. Editor- in- chief welcomes reports containing possible flaws in the published articles in the journal.
B) Writers’ Code of Ethics
1. The foremost ethical responsibility of a writer is to produce and present a true whole report of the research made. Plagiarism in any form including direct, mosaic, and accidental plagiarism, or bringing conclusions reached by others as one’s own is totally reprehensible.
2. The writer is responsible for providing the essential evidence for the sent article such as files containing article’s data, complementary graphs and diagrams, materials used for drawings if any and also if necessary present samples under study at the disposal of the journal.
3. It is compulsory to cite and provide all the sources used directly or indirectly in writing the article.
4. Should an article receive prior rejection (in this journal or other journals) or put aside for publication, the writer should inform the chief editor and provide and explain reasons for its rejection and publication as well as referring to possible corrections needed to be made.
C) Referees’ Code of Ethics
1. Since the process of reviewing an article is one of the major stages for its acceptance, should a referee perceives that a sent article for whatever reason is outside the scope of his expertise he should refer the article to the editor- in -chief at once.
2. As the referee respects the writers’ independent thought, he should impartially evaluate the quality of the article.
3. The referee should treat the received article as a confidential document. He should not put it at the disposal of others nor discuss it with them unless he wishes to reflect their views in the judicial process.
4. Referees should attach necessary explanations for their applied views. Failure to do so on their part, and also hesitating over including writers’ response to the referees’ opinions are not expected nor acceptable.
5. Referees should inform the editor- in -chief in cases where it is predicted that the received report of the research made might directly be abused.