Terms of Collaboration - Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

1. COPYRIGHT: By submitting a paper the author understands that its copyright is transferred to INASE. INASE may publish it at their discretion in collaborating journals and the author may not resubmit it anywhere else, and that includes other INASE publications. Based on this copyright transfer of the paper, INASE is entitled to publish the paper to its conference collaborating journals.
2. ATTENDANCE/REGISTRATION: By submitting a paper the author pledges that at least one of the paper's authors will come, present, and register the paper in the conference.
3. Any Request for paper withdrawal can be sent by email within 2 weeks after the paper submission. In any case, the Organizers are not obliged to approve the withdrawal of the paper, especially if the review of the paper has been completed. INASE maintains the copyright of the article and may publish it at their discretion in collaborating journals.
4. PEER REVIEW: All submitted papers are subject to strict peer-review process by at least two international reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper.
5. The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability and language.
6. The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
7. If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
8. Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
9. Articles may be rejected without review if they are obviously not suitable for publication.
10. The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
11. The reviewers evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
12. The staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
13. Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
14. Peer review assists the publisher in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the experts form the scientific board ant the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
15. Manuscripts received for review are treated as confidential documents and are reviewed by anonymous staff.
16. A reviewer should also call to the publisher's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
17. Authors of contributions and studies research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance.
18. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
19. The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
20. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one publication concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
21. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study.
22. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.