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Ethical Guidelines for Publication in Journals and Reviews 1.0
- Introduction 1.0 Introduction
One of the foundations of the scientific profession is
the acceptance by its members of a 'code of conduct' which outlines
desired behaviour and obligations of members of the profession to each
other and the public. Such a code of conduct seeks to maximise the
benefits of science to society and the profession. The advancement of
science requires the sharing of knowledge, even though this may
sometimes forego any immediate personal advantage. The publication of scientific research in journals is
one of the fundamental ways in which the Algerian Materials Research
Society (AMRS) serves the chemical science communities. Central to
this service are certain responsibilities that editors, authors and
referees have to maintain the high ethical standard relating to the
publication of manuscripts in the journals published by the AMRS. This document* outlines these responsibilities. * Reproduced in part—with permission—from ''Ethical
Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research'', Chem Rev.,
1995, 95, pp 11A–13A. © 1985, 1989, 1995
American Chemical Society. 2.0 Editors
Editors (including Editorial Board members and AMRS
Managing Editors) have the following responsibilities: ·
To acknowledge receipt of submitted manuscripts within a few days of
receipt and to ensure the efficient, fair and timely review process of
submitted manuscripts. ·
To ensure that submitted manuscripts are handled in a confidential manner,
with no details being disclosed to anyone, with the exception of the
referees, without the permission of the author, until a decision has
been taken as to whether the manuscript is to be published. ·
To make the final decision concerning acceptance or rejection of a
manuscript. ·
To decide to accept or reject a manuscript for publication with reference
only to the manuscript's importance, originality and clarity, and its
relevance to the journal. ·
To respect the intellectual independence of authors. ·
To make known any conflicts of interest that might arise (see Appendix
A.1). Specifically, in cases where an editor is an author of a
submitted manuscript, the manuscript must be passed to another editor
for independent peer review. ·
Not to use for their own research, work reported in unpublished submitted
articles. ·
To consider the use of an author's suggested referees for their submitted
article. However, the editor maintains the right to use referees of
their own choice. ·
Not to use referees which an author has requested are not to be consulted,
unless the editor reasonably considers there to be a significant
over-riding interest in so doing. ·
To ensure the confidentiality of the names and other details of referees;
adjudication and appeal referees may be informed of the names of prior
referees, if appropriate. ·
To respond to any suggestions of scientific misconduct, usually through
consultation with the author. This may require the publication of a
formal 'retraction' or correction. ·
To deal fairly with an author's appeal against the rejection of a
submitted manuscript. ·
To comply with data protection regulations, as appropriate. NB Only in the most extreme and unusual cases, and with
the specific agreement of the Editorial Board and the Chair of the
Journals Committee, may sanctions of limited duration be applied to an
author. 3.0 Authors
There is no universally agreed definition of authorship.
As a minimum, authors should take responsibility for a particular
section of the study. The award of authorship should balance
intellectual contributions to the conception, design, analysis and
writing of the study against the collection of data and other routine
work. If there is no task that can reasonably be attributed to a
particular individual, then that individual should not be credited
with authorship. All authors must take public responsibility for the
content of their paper. The multidisciplinary nature of much research
can make this difficult, but this may be resolved by the disclosure of
individual contributions. Authors have the following responsibilities: ·
To gather and interpret data in an honest way. Editors, referees, readers
and publishers have the right to assume that submitted (and published)
manuscripts do not contain scientific dishonesty and/or fraud
comprising among others fictitious data, plagiarised material,
reference omissions, false priority statements, 'hidden' multiple
publication of the same data and incorrect authorship. Authors must
not breach any copyright. ·
To present a concise and accurate report of their research and an
objective discussion of its significance. ·
To give due recognition to published work relating to their submitted
manuscript by way of correct reference and citation. All sources
should be disclosed, and if a significant amount of other people's
material is to be used, permission must be sought by the author in
accordance with copyright
law. ·
(a) To avoid undue fragmentation of their work into multiple manuscripts.
Editors have the right to reject submitted articles on the grounds of
undue fragmentation. In particular, a piece of work should not be
split into a number of manuscripts for publication as
Communications.(b) Not to engage in redundant publication, which
occurs when two or more papers, without full cross reference, share
the same hypothesis, data, discussion points, or conclusions. Previous
publication of an abstract or preprint of the proceedings of meetings
does not preclude subsequent submission for publication, but full
disclosure should be made at the time of submission. Re-publication of
a paper in another language is acceptable, provided that there is full
and prominent disclosure of its original source at the time of
submission. ·
To consider publishing related manuscripts in the same journal or a small
group of journals, as this can be of benefit to readers. ·
To inform the editor of related manuscripts under consideration for
publication by the same author in any journal, on submission of their
current manuscript. Authors may be requested to provide copies of
these related manuscripts, and details of their present status. ·
To ensure that a manuscript is submitted for publication in only one
journal at a time. It is not acceptable for an author to submit a
manuscript (or manuscripts describing essentially the same matter) to
more than one journal at a time. A manuscript which is a full paper
report of a published communication may be submitted for publication;
however the author has the responsibility to inform the editor of the
previously published communication. ·
To ensure that their submitted articles contain no personal criticism of
other scientists. Criticism of the work of another scientist may,
however, be justified. An article may not contain any defamatory or
otherwise actionable material. ·
To give due acknowledgement to all workers contributing to the work.
Those who have contributed significantly to the research should be
listed as co-authors. On submission of the manuscript, the
corresponding author attests to the fact that those named as co-authors
have agreed to its submission for publication and accepts the
responsibility for having properly included all (and only) co-authors.
The corresponding author signs a copyright licence on behalf of all
the authors. ·
To declare all sources of funding for the work in the manuscript, and
also to declare any conflict of interest (see Appendix A.1). ·
To identify clearly in the manuscript any unusual hazards inherent in the
use of chemicals, procedures or equipment in the investigation. ·
In cases where a study involves the use of live animals or human subjects,
to include in the Methods/Experimental section of the manuscript a
statement that all experiments were performed in compliance with the
relevant laws and institutional guidelines, and to state the
institutional committee(s) that have approved the experiments. To
include a statement that informed consent was obtained for any
experimentation with human subjects. Referees may be asked to comment
specifically on any cases in which concerns arise. 4.0 Referees
Referees have the following responsibilities: ·
To treat the manuscript as confidential. The editor must be informed if
the referee consults a colleague about the manuscript. ·
To return/destroy/erase the manuscript and to inform the editor should
they be unqualified to review the manuscript, or lack the time to
review the manuscript, without undue delay. ·
To judge the manuscript objectively and in a timely fashion. Referees
should not make personal criticism in their reviews. ·
To return the manuscript without review to the editor if there is a
conflict of interest (see Appendix A.1). Specifically, Referees should
not review manuscripts authored or co-authored by a person with whom
the referee has a close personal or professional relationship, if this
relationship could be reasonably thought to bias the review. ·
To explain and support their judgements so that editors and authors may
understand the basis of their comments, and to provide reference to
published work, where appropriate. ·
To inform the editor of any similarity between the submitted manuscript
and another either published or under consideration by another
journal. ·
To ensure that all unpublished data, information, interpretation and
discussion in a submitted article remain confidential and not to use
reported work in unpublished, submitted articles for their own
research. ·
To alert the editor if a manuscript contains plagiarised material or
falsified data. ·
Not to retain or copy the submitted manuscript in any form; to comply
with data protection regulations, as appropriate. ·
To make known any conflicts of interest that might arise (see Appendix
A.1) A.0 Appendix - Declaration of
'Conflict of interest'
A.1.1 Guidance for editors, authors and referees of
Journals and Reviews.* The Managing Editor of the RSC Journal concerned
should be informed of any significant** conflict of interest that
editors, authors or referees may have, in order to determine if any
action may be appropriate (such as adding a declaration of an authors
conflict of interest to a published piece, or disqualifying a referee).
Conflicts of interest are almost inevitable and it is not intended to
attempt to eliminate these. ·
Financial. Editors, authors and referees of an
article, editorial, etc., should inform the Managing
Editor of any significant financial interest – recent, present or
anticipated – in any organisation that may in any way gain or lose
financially from the publication of the piece (e.g.
employment by such an organisation; funds for research; funds for a
member of staff; fees for consulting; stock or share holdings; patent
interests).If you have such an interest, you may have a conflict of
interest, which, in the spirit of openness, should be declared to the
Managing Editor. ·
Other interests. An editor, author or referee may wish
to disclose to the Managing Editor another conflict of interest that
would be embarrassing if it became generally known (e.g. an
academic link or rivalry or a close relationship with, or a strong
antipathy to, a person whose interests may be affected by publication
of an article, editorial). * For a description and discussion of some leading
journals' policies on conflicts of interest see: F. van Kolfschooten,
''Conflicts of interest: Can you believe what you read?'', Nature,
28 March 2002, vol. 416, pp. 360–363;
DOI: 10.1038/416360a. ** Significance may be judged by considering whether an
undeclared conflict of interest could be embarrassing were it to
become publicly known after the fact.
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