Publication Policies

Open Access: All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Neither modifications nor commercial uses are permitted.

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

We are committed to the goals of open research therefore our journal publishes all research as Open Access.

Moral rights

  • All use must be fully attributed. Attribution must take the form of a link - using the article DOI - to the published article on the journal's website.
  • All use must ensure that the authors' moral right to the integrity of their work is not compromised.

Editorial Policies

Author contributions
Author’s contribution to a research paper is clearly credited.

Competing interests
Authors, peer reviewers, and editors are required to disclose any competing interests that might influence their decisions and conclusions around a particular piece of content.

Confidentiality
All correspondence between editors, authors and peer reviewers is treated as confidential by default.

Corrections and retractions
It is our responsibility to maintain the integrity of the published article and to act quickly to address any challenges or questions around the work that we publish.

Corresponding authors
The corresponding author is empowered to act on behalf of all co-authors during the manuscript assessment and publication process.

Editorial independence
Our editorial decision-making process is independent of all commercial concerns.

Fraud and malpractice
We have a responsibility to investigate any instances of fraud or malpractice that it detects.
We comply closely with the Committee Publication Ethics (publicationethics.org) clear guidelines for editors. When a paper is suspected or discovered to be based on fraudulent results or to contain images that have been inappropriately manipulated, the editor will take prompt steps to investigate and to notify readers. The paper is retracted if fraud is confirmed.

Institutional affiliations
Authors should link their publication to their institution, for readers to unequivocally understand the affiliation, and for institutions to see the works that have been published by their past and current employees.

Peer-review
Well-conducted peer review supports the advance of research and discovery by ensuring that research results are robust and trustworthy.
All of the primary research papers and review articles that we publish are peer reviewed by appropriate experts in the field in the single blind regime. Peer reviewers may choose to remain anonymous or, for some publications, to reveal their identity and/or the content of their peer review report.

Personal data
Personal data might be disclosed only with the full permission of the individual to whom the data pertains.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism-suspected papers are checked by the plagiarism checker software.

Third-party permissions
It is essential to secure the correct rights to third-party content in order that it can legally be published and re-used.

Guidance from COPE (https://publicationethics.org/):

Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers (English)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.9
Sharing of information among editors-in-chief regarding possible misconduct
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.7
How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2018.1.1
Text recycling guidelines for editors
URL: http://publicationethics.org/text-recycling-guidelines
A short guide to ethical editing for new editors
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.8
Guidelines for managing the relationships between society owned journals, their society, and publishers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2018.1.2
Retraction guidelines
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.4

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