Author Guidelines 

All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted manuscript.

ETHICS

Manuscripts may be rejected by the editorial office if it is felt that the work was not carried out within an ethical framework.

Plagiarism in any form constitutes a serious violation of the most basic principles of scholarship and cannot be tolerated. Examples of plagiarism include:

1. Word-for-word copying of portions of another's writing without enclosing the copied passage in quotation marks and acknowledging the source in the appropriate scholarly convention.

2. The use of a particularly unique term or concept that one has come across in reading without acknowledging the author or source.

3. The paraphrasing or abbreviated restatement of someone else's ideas without acknowledging that another person's text has been the basis for the paraphrasing.

4. False citation: material should not be attributed to a source from which it has not been obtained.

 5. False data: data that has been fabricated or altered in a laboratory or experiment; although not literally plagiarism, this is clearly a form of academic fraud.

6. Unacknowledged multiple submissions of an article for several purposes without prior approval from the parties involved.

7. Unacknowledged multiple authors or collaboration: the contributions of each author or collaborator should be made clear.

8. Self-plagiarism/double submission: the submission of the same or a very similar article to two or more publications at the same time.