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ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS
Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under
consideration for publication elsewhere.
Content
All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article and
are responsible for the validity and originality of data contained therein.
Ethics
Manuscripts may be rejected by the editorial office if it is felt that the work was not
carried out within an ethical framework.
Competing Interest
Authors are required to declare any competing financial or other interest in relation to their
work. All competing interests that are declared will be listed at the end of
published articles. Where an author gives no competing interests, the listing
will be ignored meaning the author do not have any competing interest.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism in any form constitutes a serious violation of the most basic principles of
scholarship and cannot be tolerated.
Examples of plagiarism include:
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Word-for-word copying of portions of another's writing without enclosing the
copied passage in quotation marks and acknowledging the source in the
appropriate scholarly convention.
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The use of a
particularly unique term or concept that one has come across in reading without
acknowledging the author or source.
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The paraphrasing or abbreviated restatement of someone else's ideas without acknowledging that another person's text has been the basis for the paraphrasing.
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citation: material should not be attributed to a source from which it has not
been obtained.
TYPES OF PAPERS
Standard full-length paper:
These should describe new and carefully confirmed findings including
experimental procedures. A paper of this nature should contain the Abstract, Key
words, Abbreviations, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion
(or Results and Discussion), Acknowledgements, References, Tables, and Legends
to figures. A typical standard paper contains 15–25 manuscript pages (without
figures).
Short Communication: It must not exceed 6-12 manuscript pages (without figures) and must contain the
Abstract, Key words, Abbreviations, the core of the paper, Acknowledgements,
References, Tables, and Legends to figures. It should report a completed work
but not preliminary findings.
Review or minireview: This should give an overview of a topical field of interest for a wide spectrum of
readers and should contain the abstract, topical sections and subsections, and
references. Minireviews should be concise and no longer than 12-18 manuscript
pages.
PROCESSING OF PAPERS
All journals published by Scienceweb publishing lay emphasis on the quality of the articles
they publish. Therefore, submitted articles are put through a full blind-review
refereeing process. Each manuscript is subjected first to a preliminary examination by the journal to establish
that it fits the scope of the Journal. In a positive case, the manuscript is
reviewed by two or three independent referees with expertise which matches that
of the manuscript title. The reviewers' recommendations determine whether an
article will be:
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accepted
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accepted subject to minor changes
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accepted subject to resubmission with significant changes
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rejected.
For articles which require changes, the same reviewers may be used to ensure that the quality
of the revised article is acceptable.
On the basis of their critical remarks; the Editor-in-Chief decides to return the manuscript
to the author within four (4) weeks for revision with specified reviewer’s
critical remarks or to reject it. As a rule, the receipt of the manuscript by
the Editorial Office, the outcome of the reviewing, and the acceptation of the
manuscript are communicated to the author. All the communication between the
Editorial Office and the author is realized via e-mail. The manuscript is
accepted either immediately following the reviewing or after acceptable revision
as it is the goal of the journal to publish manuscripts within twelve (12) weeks
after submission. The Editor in Chief reserves the right to refuse any article,
and to make suggestions and/or modifications before publication. The galley
proofs of the manuscript are sent to the author in PDF format. After checking
and correcting they should be returned within 48 hours. Finally, the article in
PDF format exactly matching the printed version is sent to the author. The
publishers shall not be held responsible for errors which are the result of
authors' oversights.
SUBMISSION CHECKLIST
Please
ensure that all requirements on the following checklist have been met before
submitting your article.
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The submission file must be in MS Word format.
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Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
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The text meets the writing and formatting requirements outlined in our instruction for authors on our Journal’s home page
