Plagiarism Policy

We expect research to be originial material not previously published nor under submission at another journal. We take plagarism seriously and screen all submissions using plagarism software. All submissions need to pass plagiarism software thresholds, or will be rejected.

Self-plagarism is also not accepted. Do not copy chunks of text from other papers, even if your own, into any part of your paper (including introduction or methods), even if you reference it.  

We expect appropriate ethical/approval statements to be made in all research papers, even if not required (e.g. meta-analyses of previously published papers). Editors may request copies of approvals.

Prior presentation or publication as an abstract or poster as a conference is encouraged and does not prevent publication.