Ethical Guidelines

Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers

Peer reviewers are requested to use every reasonable effort to abide by the following ethical principles:

  1. Reviewers must be objective and evaluate each article on its own merits without taking into account the author(s)' ethnicity, religion, nationality, sex, seniority, or association with any particular institution.
  2. Reviewers are required to maintain the privacy of the peer review process; information or correspondence regarding a manuscript should not be disclosed to parties outside of the peer review process.
  3. Reviewers should offer a helpful, thorough, supported, and sufficiently substantial peer review report.
  4. Reviewers should make every attempt to submit their report and recommendations on time, and if this is not possible, they should let the editor know.
  5. Reviewers must let the editor know if they find any substantial similarities between the manuscript under consideration and any articles that have been published or manuscripts that have been submitted that they are aware of.

Ethical guidelines for editors

For CSJN articles that appear deserving of peer review, all editors are requested to use every reasonable effort to adhere to the following ethical principles.

  1. Editors must analyze each article objectively and evaluate each on its own merits without taking into account the author(s)' color, religion, nationality, sex, seniority, or institutional affiliation.
  2. Editors are required to maintain the privacy of the peer review process; information or correspondence regarding a manuscript should not be disclosed to parties outside of the peer review process.
  3. If editors feel that a submitted manuscript is improper for the publication and outside its scope, they may reject the manuscript without using formal peer review.
  4. All reasonable efforts should be made by editors to process submitted papers quickly and effectively.
  5. An editor should support the release of an appropriate erratum if they are given strong proof that the main idea or conclusions of an article published in CSJN are incorrect. Except with the author's permission, any data or analysis offered in a submitted publication should not be used in the editor's own research.