Policy against plagiarism and misconduct in research

JHBS maintains high standards of ethics and good publishing practices. The articles published by this journal are in accordance with the guidelines of the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), which aims to encourage the identification of plagiarism, further practices, fraud, possible ethical violations and openness of processes, we indicate:

1. Authors should visit the COPE website http://publicationethics.org, which contains information for authors and editors on research ethics;

2. Before submitting, authors must meet the following criteria:

- articles containing acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data from other publications must refer to them explicitly;

- in drafting articles containing a critical review of the intellectual content of other authors, these should be duly cited;

- all authors must meet the criteria for unpublished authorship of the article and some researchers involved in the research may be omitted from the list of authors;

- the final approval of the article will be made by the editors and editorial board.

3. To meet the criteria, the following procedures shall be carried out:

(a) The editors will verify the manuscripts by the Plagiarism detect or Plagium logo site after submission;

(b) With the results, the editors and editorial board will decide whether the manuscript will be sent for peer review which will also conduct evaluations;

(c) After the oil and before publication, the articles may be re-evaluated.