Authors and Authors responsibilities

Authorship:

Each author needs to make substantive intellectual contributions to the manuscript. Any dispute in authorship must be resolved by authors and a correction after publication can be published, but requires agreement from all authors with justification.

 

Types of authorship:

The first authors: the person who conducts or supervises the data collection, analysis, presentation and interpretation of the results, and also puts together the paper for submission. Co-author: the person who makes intellectual contributions to the data analysis and contributes to data interpretation, reviews each paper draft, must be able to present the results, defend the implications and discuss study limitations.

 

Acknowledgments:

Authors need to disclose all sources of funding of the study.

 

Conflict of interests:

Authors need to declare any conflicts of interest: direct financial, indirect financial, career and intellectual and personal belief.

 

References:

Authors need to correctly cite another person’s ideas, processes or words. References must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including table captions and figure legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript.

 

Plagiarism, data fabrication, image manipulation simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal are not tolerated.

If misconduct is detected authors could have their paper retracted (with a note why they were retracted), have a letter of concern or reprimand written on them, and Institutes and funding bodies could carry out disciplinary action.

The Journal uses the Turnitin software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. 

 

Fees and charges:

All articles published in Journal are published in full open access. There is no fee nor article processing charge (APC) for providing free access to readers, and to cover the costs of peer review, copyediting, typesetting, long-term archiving, and journal management.

Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. The journal will upon manuscript acceptance for publication ensure and pay for English editing service prior to publication.