As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Author Guidelines
All of our papers are subjected to peer review.
We ask for reviewing only experts in the field connected with the particular paper's substance.
The reviewer's comments should be made objective and no conflict of interest is acceptable, therefore we follow the double-blind review process. We do our best to select independent reviewers, possibly from another country (different to the one where the authors come from) and we are ready to change the reviewers' assignment if they report still a potential conflict of interest.
Reviewers are encouraged to point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.
Reviewed articles are treated confidentially.
4. Publication ethics
Publishers and editors take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred. Therefore we follow an anti-plagiaris and anti-ghostwriting procedure, checking for the same content as in the submitted paper, published elsewhere, BEFORE THE ACTUAL REVIEW PROCESS IS STARTED.
We have a predefined Consent to Publish, stating clearly the rights of the authors and stating that the published work is original, not printed elsewhere. However, if we are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct, we will contact the authors, the authors' supervisors or employees, and finally the appropriate court to clarify this issue.
If in the course of clarifying the issue, the allegation of plagiarism or any other misconduct is confirmed, the paper will be retracted or corrected based on the particular negotiations with the Editor in Chief, authors and the person who poses the allegation.
We are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies should they be needed.
When any doubts arise regarding malpractices as ghost-writing, guest-authorship, plagiarism etc. we follow the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics depicted in the flowcharts.
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