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Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
(Based on Elsevier recommendations and COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors)
For All the Journals Published by Centre for Info Bio Technology [CIBTech]
The Journal ensures that all parties involved in the act of publishing agree upon the standards of expected ethical
behaviour. Therefore these parties: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer and the publisher should go
through such ethics during and after the publication process. It is compulsory for them to agree upon standards of
expected ethical behavior. The ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Ethical guidelines for Editors, Reviewers and Authors
EDITORS
The editor of the peer-reviewed Journal should judge the manuscripts on the basis of their academic merit. The
editor should go through the policies of the Journal’s editorial board. The editor should evaluate manuscripts
without looking at the ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious
belief, of the authors.
Editor should not use the unpublished work submitted for publication, for personal work and benefits without the
written consent of the author. Board members/reviewers or members of Journals/CIBTech must preserve the
confidentiality of the unpublished works. The editor must not disclose any information about a submitted
manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher,
as appropriate.
Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if
competing interests are revealed after the publication of any article. If required, other appropriate action should
be taken, like the publication of a retraction or expression of concern. It must be ensured that the peer-review
process for sponsored supplements is the same as that used for the main journal. Items in sponsored supplements
should be accepted on the basis of academic merit and not on the basis of commercial benefits. Non-peer
reviewed portion of their journal should be clearly identified.
The editor should make the enquiry whenever any ethical complaint is made regarding the submitted or published
paper. The editor should contact the authors or relevant institution. If the complaint is found genuine then the
paper can be asked for correction, or even the published paper can be cancelled no matter how late the complaint
is raised.
REVIEWERS
Reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of the manuscript. Original ideas obtained through peer review must
be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviews should be conducted impartially, and
observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments, so that authors can use them for improving
the paper.
Any referee whose academic/research work is not related to the article submitted or cannot spare time for quick
review, must notify the editor and excuse him from the review process. Reviewers should not consider articles in
which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of
the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the articles.
Reviewers should identify relevant references those have not been cited by the authors. A reviewer should also
bring to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the article under consideration and
any other published article of which they have personal knowledge.
AUTHORS
The authors should take the responsibility that the work carried out, under the submitted manuscript for the
Journal, is the original piece of research work, performed as per the appropriate prevailing professional standards
of the scientific community. Authors should present an objective discussion of the significance of research work as
well as sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the experiments. Fraudulent or knowingly
inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Authorship must be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design,
execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be
listed as co-authors. People, who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, should
be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors have seen
and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Authors should ensure that they have not infringed any copyright or violated any other right of any third parties in
the manuscript. Authors must ensure that the images such as diagrams, photographs, figures, graphs submitted in
the manuscript have been originally drawn by them. Authors should take necessary permissions/acknowledge the
source/cite the reference, if they have taken the images, text or part of any data from some other sources.
Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be
used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source.
Author should not submit the work to other publisher for publication. Similarly no part of the work should be
published elsewhere too.
Authors must assure that all the ethical norms have been considered while performing the research. In case of
animal research authors must ensure that they have taken necessary approval from the concerned ethical
committees such as CPCSEA for animal research in India, (if/wherever applicable). Authors must also ensure that
similar written permissions were taken from the institute(s)/people (used as experimental subjects) involved in the
research work. Author should take the responsibilities if any controversies arise out of the work being submitted
for publication.
Though the editorial and reviewing staff closely check the article yet if any mistakes remain in the text thus
submitted then author should be responsible for the error. Therefore author must submit the article carefully
checking its typographic mistakes. If the authors discover any significant error or inaccuracy in the
submitted/published work, it is the authors’ obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and
cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
Author must transfer the copyrights to the publisher/Journal. This copyright transfer will cover any product that
may be derived from the published article mentioned above. The journal or CIBTech will have the right to register
copyright to the Article in its name as applicant, separately or as part of the journal issue or other publication
where the Article is included. The signing author(s) must ensure that he/she/they has/have full authority to
transfer the copyrights on behalf of the co-authors (not available for signature). Authors can also apply for patents
relevant to their submitted/published article.
In case all the co-author/authors’ signatures are not available, the corresponding author(s) will take the
responsibility that he/she/they have signed this form as authorized agents on behalf of the entire remaining main
author/co-authors/research supervisor.
Authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be
construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the
project should be disclosed.
Authors should disclose the potential conflicts of interest which include employment, consultancies, stock
ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, grants or other funding and patent applications /registrations.

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