Ethics

Ethics Declaration

Ethnobiology Letters requires authors to conform to our Ethics Declaration by completing and uploading this document as an additional file during the submission process.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Author Responsibilities

  1. Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work, that they do not plagiarize (as the COPE discussion defines plagiarism), and that they truthfully present data.
  2. Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
  3. Authors must certify that the maunscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
  4. Authors must certify that all relevant ethical safeguards have been met and all relevant permissions were obtained.
  5. Authors must report of any conflicts of interest.
  6. Authors must report all sources of funding.
  7. Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
  8. Authors must report any errors they discover in their manuscript.
  9. Authors must declare all formal permissions obtained for the reported research, including those issued by IRB or ethics committees, host governments or institutions, local communities, and individual participants.

Reviewer Responsibilities

  1. Reviewers must notify the Ethnobiology Letters of any conflicts of interest.
  2. Reviewers must keep information pertaining to the manuscript confidential.
  3. Reviewers must bring to the attention of the Editors any information that may be reason to reject publication of a manuscript.
  4. Reviewers must evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Editorial Board Responsibilities

  1. The Editors and/or Editorial Board must keep information pertaining to submitted manuscripts confidential.
  2. The Editors and/or Editorial Board must disclose any conflicts of interest.
  3. The Editors and/or Editorial Board must evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  4. The Editors and/or Editorial Board are responsible for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts.
  5. The Editors and Editorial Board will review suspected incidents of plagiarism following the COPE Code of Conduct and, should the board conclude that plagiarism has occurred, the editors will follow the COPE workflow to respond to the violation.