Authors are responsible for the contents of their manuscript.
Those submitting manuscript should carefully check that all those methods and results are accurate.
Authors should carefully check their calculations and offered data.
Citations and references should be accurate. They should be properly prepared.
Authors should not copy the references from other scientific papers in case they did not use them.
Authors are completely responsible for the correct definition of their authorship.
Editor-in-chief:
makes decision on publication of a manuscript solely on the basis of expert evaluation of a group of independent reviewers and the opinion of the members of the editorial board;
sends confidential information about the submitted manuscript to the authors and the reviewers only;
excludes the submitted manuscript from consideration in case of the conflict of interest;
assumes the appropriate response measures in case of a complaint of ethic nature to the submitted manuscript or the published paper (informs the author, discusses the complaint with the editorial board, publishes the corrections);
citation recommendations are based on the scientific importance of the cited papers, and pursue the goal to improve the submitted manuscript.
Editorial board:
complies with confidentiality requirements and sends the submitted manuscripts to the reviewers only. Correspondence with the author is of confidential nature;
assures the reviewers are aware of the rules of reviewing;
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protects the rights of the third parties from illegal use of the materials (piracy) – the manuscripts of the persons, caught in piracy, are not accepted for publication in the academic periodical. Editorial board has a right to give publicity the leak out cases of piracy on the pages of its periodical;
gives the authors grounds for the decision if the manuscript is not accepted for publication or if returned for revision;
does not accept for publication the manuscripts with invalid references and citation.
Reviewer:
agrees (and informs the editor of the periodical about it) to review those manuscripts which are in his/her field of competence and those number of manuscripts which he/she will be able to review in proper time;
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does not use the information obtained during the reviewing for his/her own benefit or benefit of any other persons or organization or to harm any person or to bring into discredit any person;
does not addresses directly to the authors without preliminary permission of the editor;
informs the editor about possible conflicts of interest and seeks advise to the editorial board of the periodical if he/she is not sure whether the situation is a conflict of interest or not;
does not take into account the origin of the manuscript, nationality, religious affiliation, political or any other views of the authors, or commercial interest to review the submitted manuscript;
Reviews the manuscript objectively and constructively, does not make hostile or inciting statements, as well as slanderous or offensive comments.
Based on the materials of the Committee on Publication Ethics, Instructions of the Reviewers of Elsevier publishing company.
See also: Podgotovka i izdanie nauchnogo zhurnala. Mezhdunarodnaya praktika po etike redaktirovaniya, retsenzirovaniya, izdaniya i avtorstva nauchnykh publikatsiy: Sbornik perevod / Sost. O. V. Kirillova. – M.: Finansovyy universitet, 2013. – 140 s.