COPE Guidelines

Please read COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Guidelines from the following website: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines

or, browse the full COPE guidelines by choosing one of the sections below:

• Ethics toolkit for a successful editorial office
• Editing peer reviews
• Editorial board participation
• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
• Ensuring consent for publishing medical case reports
• Text recycling guidelines for editors
• A short guide to ethical editing for new editors
• Retraction guidelines
• How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers
• Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers
• Sharing of information among editors-in-chief regarding possible misconduct
• Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity and publication misconduct cases
• Guidance for Editors: research, audit and service evaluations