Ethical Duties of Authors

1. The Author(s) shall ensure that all the work submitted by them is original and any content that requires due acknowledgment is fully referenced. Also, the author shall disclose the source of all data and third party material. Reproducing text from the work of others without giving due acknowledgment and credit to the author or producing many papers with the same content and language by the same authors themselves (self-plagiarism) is also not acceptable. Submitting the same conclusions and suggestions to multiple journals concurrently is unethical.
2. Shall provide accurate contact details for the corresponding author, who shall be responsible for the authorship of the paper and who shall be the corresponding author for any communication relating to originality of the paper. It may also include any queries or investigations that may arise in context with the manuscript submission.
3. Shall be required to ensure that that there are no duplicate submissions, i.e., the same manuscript should not be sent for consideration to different journals at the same time.
4. Shall submit a duly filled and signed copyright form upon confirmation of acceptance of their work for publication, thereby transferring the copyright to the publisher of the journal.
5. Must be honest in presenting results and conclusions on the basis of their research. Any inferences borrowed from the work of others shall be highly disregarded.
6. Shall be willing to cooperate and comply with any requests made by the editors and publisher with regard to source of data, proof of authorship or originality, etc.
7. Shall seek approval is required to be taken from any third party for reproduction of their authored content, the same shall be obtained and submitted along with the manuscript.