Ethical Guidelines

Proper acknowledgements to other works must be given (this includes material that is closely copied (near verbatim), summarized and/or paraphrased), quotation marks are used for verbatim copying of material, and permissions are secured for material that is copyrighted.

Consent to submit has been received from all co-authors and responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out before the work is submitted.

Authors whose names appear on the submission have contributed sufficiently to the scientific work and therefore share collective responsibility and accountability for the results.

In addition:

• Honoraria for speaking at symposia
• Financial support for attending symposia
• Financial support for educational programs
• Employment or consultation
• Support from a project sponsor
• Position on advisory board or board of directors or other type of management relationships
• Multiple affiliations
• Financial relationships, for example equity ownership or investment interest

Requests to add or delete authors at revision stage or after publication is a serious matter and may be considered only after receipt of written approval from all authors and detailed explanation about the role/deletion of the new/deleted author. The decision on accepting the change rests with the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

Upon request authors should be prepared to send relevant documentation or data in order to verify the validity of the results. This could be in the form of raw data, samples, records, etc.

Disclosure of potential conflict of interests Authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could influence or bias the work. Although an author may not feel there are conflicts, disclosure of relationships and interests affords a more transparent process, leading to an accurate and objective assessment of the work. Awareness of real or perceived conflicts of interests is a perspective to which the readers are entitled and is not meant to imply that a financial relationship with an organization that sponsored the research or compensation for consultancy work is inappropriate. Examples of potential conflicts of interests that are directly or indirectly related to the research may include but are not limited to the following:

Research grants from funding agencies (please give the research funder and the grant number)

Plagiarism

Submission of the article to the journals from the Engineered Science publisher implies that the submitted article has not been published previously in any format other than in the form of an abstract, academic thesis or published lecture), that the submitted article is not under consideration for its publication elsewhere; that the submitted manuscript is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder.  Engineered Science publisher is committed to deterring plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) and uses Crossref Similarity Check Powered by iThenticate to check the originality of the submitted article.

Coauthor Notification

The corresponding author or a person who is submitting the article must provide details (Full name, institutional affiliation, address for communication and e-mail address) for all the authors. It is his/her responsibility to notify all the authors of the article regarding submission and further process related to the submitted article. After the submission of manuscript, deletion of an author name, inclusion of an author name or change in the order of the author names requires a confirming letter all the authors including the one whose name is being included or deleted.

Suggesting Referees

Authors should suggest the referees who are having a personal or professional connection with them if the relationship might influence decision on the manuscript.