Ethics

COPE (Ethics)

* Editors, and reviewers are expected to be aware of and comply with best practices in publication ethics.

* Authors are expected to be aware of and comply with best practices in publication ethics, including but not limited to authorship (for example, avoidance of ghost or guest authorship), dual submission, attribution, plagiarism, image integrity, figure preparation, and competing interests.

*Authors must also conform to principles of research ethics (human subjects research, animal research, worldwide research). 

*A paper may only be accepted if competing interests are declared. All editors, peer-reviewers, and authors declare all potentially competing interests.