Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics

Veritas Procedura is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics based on the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal holds all parties—authors, editors, and reviewers—to strict ethical standards.

Duties of the Editors

  • Decision-Making: Editors are responsible for deciding which articles should be published based on their academic merit, originality, and relevance to the journal's scope, without regard to the authors' race, gender, religion, or institutional affiliation.
  • Confidentiality: Editors must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and publisher.
  • Fair Play: Editors must evaluate manuscripts for intellectual content without bias.
  • Conflict of Interest: Editors must recuse themselves from considering manuscripts where they have a conflict of interest due to a personal or professional relationship with the author.

Duties of the Reviewers

  • Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions and may help authors improve their manuscripts.
  • Timeliness: Reviewers who feel unqualified to review a manuscript or are unable to do so promptly should notify the editor and decline the invitation.
  • Confidentiality: Manuscripts received for review are confidential and must not be shown to or discussed with others.
  • Standards of Objectivity: Reviews must be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.
  • Originality and Plagiarism: Reviewers should be alert for any signs of plagiarism or duplicate publication and report their suspicions to the editor.

Duties of the Authors

  • Originality: Authors must ensure their work is entirely original. If they have used the work and/or words of others, this must be appropriately cited or quoted.
  • Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a manuscript for editorial review.
  • Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not publish manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals concurrently is unethical and unacceptable.
  • Acknowledgement of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others is mandatory.
  • Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study.

Plagiarism

Veritas Procedura has a zero-tolerance policy for plagiarism. All submitted manuscripts will be screened for plagiarism. Any manuscript with a high level of similarity to published work will be rejected. Authors are expected to properly cite all sources to avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:

  • Directly copying text, figures, or data from another source without citation.
  • Paraphrasing without proper attribution.
  • Self-plagiarism (reusing one's own previously published material without citation).

If plagiarism is discovered after publication, the journal will take appropriate action, which may include a formal retraction of the article.