Ethical standars

Editor duties:

1.- To make into consideration submitted manuscripts for publication, base decisions solely on academic and scientific merit, and maintain the editorial standards.

2.- To make relevant modifications ex officio or request the author or authors to amend the manuscript to comply with the editorial rules.

3.- To reject any submission that does not comply with the editorial rules or is suspected of conflict of interest or academic fraud.

4.- To forward manuscripts proposed for acceptance to external peer reviewers, while guaranteeing anonymity of authorship and confidentiality to third parties.

5.- To make corresponding measures ex officio or by a third-party request, to avoid or repair case of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, double publication, or other kinds of academic fraud, such as conflict of interest. In case of conflict, recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) will be followed.

6.- To make the clarifications, rectifications, amendments, or retirement of articles to eliminate problems detected after publication of an issue. Such will be announced on the website after resolution of the problem.

7.- To keep constant communication with authors and external peer reviewers, clearing up any doubts about the review and publication process.

8.- To receive and answer inquiries from third parties outside the publication process.

Author duties:

1.- To be considered an author of a manuscript, a persona must have significantly contributed to the conception and/or the design of the submission, to data collection and/or analysis and its interpretation; to the drafting or review of the manuscript, making relevant contributions to it; or to give approval to the final version of the text submitted. Those who make other types of contributions will not be considered authors, but collaborations, and must be named in the acknowledgment section of the text.

2.- Authors must send original and unpublished manuscripts. Original refers to all text that are from the exclusive authorship of the people listed as authors. Any use of external material without authorization from its authors, or under exceptions contemplated by the intellectual property law. The author or authors should make the corresponding references in the way contemplated by the Journal of Economic Law’s guidelines.

3.- Authors will not submit manuscripts simultaneously to more than one academic journal at the time.

4.- Authors must not make any references that would allow themselves to be identified either in the body of the manuscript or in the metadata associated with it, so as to guarantee their anonymity during the peer review process.

5.- Authors must make a statement about any conflict of interest.

6.- Authors must make any requested corrections by the editorial team, and the external peer reviewers.

7.- Authors must state their agreement with the editorial and intellectual property norms of the Journal of Economic Law.

Peer reviewer duties:

1.- External evaluators must objectively analyze manuscripts submitted for review. Evaluator will accept for review those text related to subject in which they have enough competence, experience, and knowledge on which perform the analysis.

2.- External evaluators must inform the editor about any potential conflict of interest.

3.- External evaluators must decline to review a manuscript in case of lack of subject competence, experience, or knowledge needed to perform an evaluation, or in case of conflict of interest.

4.- External evaluators must keep the confidentiality of the manuscript during the review process. They will not be able to reveal its content in any way without the consent from the editor or the author of the manuscript.

5.- External evaluators will complete their review within the allotted deadline given by the editor.

This ethical standard has been created following and adapting the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and the International Committee of Medical Editors (ICJME).