The following ethical guidelines are obligatory for all author(s) violation of which may result in
application of penalties by the editor, including but not limited to the suspension or
revocation of publishing privileges.
Reporting Standards
• It is the author(s)' responsibility to ensure that the research report and data contain
adequate detail and references to the sources of information in order to allow others to
reproduce the results.
• Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are
unacceptable.
Originality and Plagiarism
• It is the author(s)' responsibility to ascertain that s/he has submitted an entirely original
work, giving due credit, by virtue of proper citations, to the works and/or words of others
where they have been used.
• Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is not acceptable.
• Material quoted verbatim from the author(s)' previously published work or other sources
must be placed in quotation marks.
• As per HEC’s policy, in case the manuscript has a similarity index of more
than 19%, it will either be rejected or left at the discretion of the Editorial Board for the purposes of a
conditional acceptance.
Declaration
• Authors are required to provide an undertaking / declaration stating that the manuscript
under consideration contains solely their original work that is not under consideration for
publishing in any other journal in any form.
• Authors may submit a manuscript previously published in abstracted form, for e.g. in the
proceedings of an annual meeting, or in a periodical with limited circulation and
availability such as reports by the Government agencies or a University.
• A manuscript that is co-authored must be accompanied by an undertaking explicitly
stating that each author has contributed substantially towards the preparation of the
manuscript in order to claim right to authorship.
• It is the responsibility of the corresponding author that s/he has ensured that all those who
have substantially contributed in the manuscripts have been included in the author list
and they have agreed to the order of authorship.
Multiple, Redundant and Current Publication
• Authors should not submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more
than one journal or publication except if is a re-submission of a rejected or withdrawn
manuscript.
• Authors may re-publish previously conducted research that has been substantially altered
or corrected using more meticulous analysis or by adding more data.
• The authors and editor must agree to the secondary publication, which must cite the
primary references and reflect the same data and interpretation of the primary document.