Publication Ethics

PUBLICATION ETHICS

Mansoura Veterinary Medical journal follows ethical standards as prescribed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and aims to aims to adhere to its guidelines and core practices.

AUTHORS

AUTHORS AFFIRM THE FOLLOWING

  • Submitted manuscripts is original work of the author (s).
  • The manuscript is not published or considered for publication elsewhere. Papers published at conferences is considered provided that this is declared in the cover letter.
  • Submission of a manuscript to more than one journal at the same time is unethical.
  • Conflict of interest statement should be provided.
  • providing an acknowledgment to anyone who contributed to the research but is not an author.
  • Communication with editor is essential if any error is present in the paper after publication.
  • Authors should use only citations that are relevant to their manuscripts. Authors provide citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, may incur sanctions.
  • Authors should avoid data Fabrication, manipulation or falsification in their work. The Mansoura Vet Med J will follow the COPE guidelines in suspected cases.
  • Authors should avoid plagiarism. The policy of Mansoura Vet Med J is to publish only unplagiarized material. Submitted manuscripts are checked for similarity index by TURNITIN. Highly similar articles are directly rejected. The plagiarism is counted excluding references.

REVIEWERS

Reviewers are expected to evaluate a manuscript for novelty and integrity. All manuscripts are reviewed in fairness based on the intellectual content of the article regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship or political values of author(s).

  • Any observed conflict of interest during the review process must be communicated to the Editor.
  • All information concerning to the manuscript is kept confidential.
  • Any information that may be the reason for the rejection of publication of a manuscript must be communicated to the Editor.

Editors

Editors must confirm the following

  • Regardless of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, citizenship or political values of authors, all manuscripts are evaluated in fairness based on the scientific contents.
  • Information pertaining to manuscripts are kept confidential.
  • Any observed conflict of interest pertaining to manuscripts should be disclosed.

Editorial Board takes responsibility for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts based on the reviewer’s evaluation of the manuscript, policies of the journal editorial board and legal restrain acting against plagiarism, libel, and copyright infringement.