Code of Professional & Ethical Conduct

To ensure high ethical and professional standards, our Journal follows the guidelines recommended by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). In dealing with misconduct allegations the journal applies the COPE's procedures.

Authors must confirm that:

Submitted manuscript is original and has not been published and / or submitted for publication elsewhere
The manuscript does not consist of an unattributed use of portions of text and/or data and results without setting it out as quotations and/or providing appropriate referencing
Authorship does not include undeserving (guest or gift) authors and/ or it does not omit anybody from an autorship (ghost author).

Referees should:

be objective and unbiased
to handle submitted material in confidence while under review
be free from disqualifying competing interests
to inform the editors about ethical questions and possible research and publication misconduct raised by submissions.