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Ethical Guidelines

Guidelines on submission of work

Please ensure that

  • the work has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review or thesis)
  • that the work is not under consideration elsewhere
  • that copyright has not been breached in seeking its publication
  • that the publication has been approved by all co-authors and responsible authorities at the institute or organization where the work has been carried out

Plagiarism

  • The words, figures, or ideas of others are not used without attribution. All sources must be cited at the point they are used, and reuse of wording must be limited and be attributed or quoted in the text.
  • Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will be rejected

Redundant Publication

  • If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they must cite the previous articles and indicate how their submitted manuscript differs from their previous work. Reuse of the authors’ own words outside the Methods should be attributed or quoted in the text. Reuse of the authors’ own figures or substantial amounts of wording may require permission from the copyright holder and the authors are responsible for obtaining this.