Authors : Ethics and policy statements
The text submitted to publication shall have a title corresponding to the
content and abstract and belongs to one of three categories: research article,
scientific report or review article. In introduction the author/authors should
define the research subject. The abstract should contain not more than 200–250
words in homogenous text without subheadings.
Author/authors are obliged to indicate the financial sources of researches
discussed in the article and to state (in case of co-authors) the degree of
contribution of co-authors in preparation of the submitted scientific text.
It is not allowed to submit articles with more than 5 authors and including
persons who did not share in the submitted scientific text. Authorship of an
article shall not involve stylistic, but essential changes. In submitted texts
all authors have to be listed. In acknowledgements the author shall list all
persons who contributed into researches (after their agreement) who were
not recognized as co-authors.
The author is obliged to disclose all information associated with the conflict
of interests.
Using other work is allowed only with respect of copyright principles.
Data on which the article was based shall be gathered in honest way and
authors promise to store and share source data used in the article for a period
of 5 years from date of issue of the article.
The author shall submit an original text for publication, not published
earlier and during the editing process it may not be sent for publishing in
another periodical.
The authors do not use arguments criticizing other works and abide to
rules set by the periodical including those referring to text structure and
bibliography construction.
Texts submitted to publishing should be prepared in comprehensible way
avoiding rare terminology and contain all data allowing to understand the
text and information about all limitations associated with industrial propriety.
Additionally, the authors shall avoid citing works of limited range.
Articles submitted to publication shall be tested with anti-plagiarism
systems.
In case of suspicion about author/authors’ dishonesty in the submitted
text, in the first place, the author/authors will be requested to explain doubts.
Such action will be aimed at stating whether the allegation of misconduct is
entitled.
In case a detection of misconduct, especially plagiarism, the published
article will be removed from electronic version of the periodical and it will be
replaceed with detailed information about the kind of misconduct. Additionally,
legal steps provided by law will be undertaken.
Any kind of ghostwriting and guest authorship shall be treated by editorial
board as a manifestation of scientific misconduct, so detected events of such
activities will result in their disclosing and reporting to appropriate authorities.
Open Acces Note available here
For specific Technical Guidelines please take a look here.
