1. Manuscripts submitted to the journal should not be published before and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
2. Submitted manuscripts must be in the scope of the journal and be outcomes of the author(s) research.
3. The corresponding author and the other author(s) are responsible for the correctness and accuracy of the content and the publication of the article does not imply endorsement by the journal.
4. Appropriate citations to all sources used in the manuscript should be done.
5. If necessary, acknowledge the sponsors of the research at the end of the manuscript.
6. Articles taken from students' thesis and dissertations are published under the name of student, supervisor(s) and advisor(s) and with the approval of the supervisor. In this type of article, the names of the dissertation supervisory team should be included in the authors list.
7. The journal is exempt from accepting manuscripts for which the corresponding authors are students. The Ecosystem Management journal emphasizes that for the manuscript which are outcomes of a thesis or dissertation, communication with the journal must be the responsibility of the supervisor. It is suggested that for other manuscripts as far as possible, faculty members communicate whit the journal and participate as corresponding author.
8. The author(s) of the manuscript must allow the journal to make minor changes in the text before publication.
9. The researchers participated in preparing the manuscript should be named as the authors of the article. It is also important to identify the corresponding author, when submitting an article to the journal.
10. The author(s) should consider plagiarism as one of the serious and immoral mistakes in preparing the manuscript. The submitted manuscripts are checked using similar tracking software.
11. If the corrected manuscript is not received from the author(s) in due time, the manuscript will be out of the evaluation process and the author(s) must submit the corrected manuscript to the journal as a new article.
12. Whenever the author notices any errors or inaccuracies in the article, he / she should inform the journal and take action to correct or withdraw the article.
13. Ethical principles in communication with the journal or in response to referees must be observed by the author(s) and obviously, the use of immoral words or sentences should be avoided.
14. In case of non-observance and violation of the mentioned cases, the editorial board will decide on the continuation of the review of the article.
Examples of Violation of the Ethical Principles of Publication by the Author(s)
If any of the following is found at any stage of the submission, reviewing or editing of an article in or after the publication, it is considered as a breach of ethics.
1. Plagiarism: The use of other authors' thoughts and phrases, copying in the expression of ideas, structural similarities of the article or attributing the ideas and results of others without proper citation or introducing as a scientific research.
2. (Fabrication): Data fabrication is when the researcher in practice has not done a study but provides data and conclusions. Reporting unrealistic material and presenting fabricated data or results as laboratory results, experimental studies or personal findings, unrealistic recording of what did not happen, or shifting the results of various studies are examples of this violation.
3. Falsification: Falsification occurs when research is done but the data and results are not real. Manipulation of research details or data collection procedure, deletion or modification of data, magnification of some small results in order to hide the main and big facts (Juicy quotes) so that the research results are not pursued in line with specific goals or the results presented are falsified.
4. Simultaneous submission: When an article is submitted and reviewed in two or more journals simultaneously.
5. Submit duplicate: Occurs when two or more articles have the same hypothesis(s), data, and results.
6. -Scientific lease: The author (s) hires another person or persons to conduct the research and after the end of the research, with a slight change, publishes it in his own name.
7. Unrealistic affiliation: Unrealistic attribution of the author (s) to an institution, center, or educational or research group that did not play a role in the original research.
8. Duplicate submission: Means dividing a study into multiple articles and submitting them.
9. Incorrect sharing by another author: All authors listed in the article should contribute to doing so.
10. Manipulation of sources: When several sources are mentioned in the reference list of a manuscript, while they are not mentioned in the content of the text.
11. Add "Honorary Author" or exclude "Real Author".