Ethical standards

Code of Ethics

A. Editor's duties and responsibilities

1. Consider manuscripts for publication based solely on their academic and scientific merit and compliance with editorial rules.

2. Review the originality of received works using the Turnitin system.

3. Make necessary modifications to the manuscript to comply with editorial rules.

4. Reject manuscripts that do not meet editorial standards or raise suspicion of conflict of interest or academic fraud.

5. Send accepted manuscripts for external review, ensuring anonymity and confidentiality of the text.

6. Take measures to prevent or address cases of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, academic fraud, or conflicts of interest. Follow COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines in case of conflict.

7. Make clarifications, corrections, amendments, or article retractions as necessary after publication. These will be communicated on the journal's website.

8. Maintain constant communication with authors and external reviewers to address queries during the review, evaluation, and publication process.

9. Receive and respond to queries from third parties unrelated to the publication process.

B. Author’s duties and responsibilities

1. To be considered an author, a person must have made significant contributions to the study's conception, design, data acquisition, analysis, or interpretation; contributed intellectually to the manuscript's writing or revision; and approved the final version for publication. Those providing other contributions are acknowledged as collaborators in the acknowledgments section.

2. Authors must submit original and unpublished manuscripts. Original texts are authored solely by the listed authors. Any use of external material must be authorized, with proper bibliographic references as per the Journal of Justice Studies guidelines. Unpublished texts have not been previously published in Spanish, either in full or in extensive fragments.

3. Authors may not submit the manuscript to more than one academic journal simultaneously.

4. Authors should not provide any identifying information in the manuscript or its metadata to ensure anonymity during third-party evaluation.

5. Authors must declare any conflicts of interest if applicable.

6. Authors are required to make corrections requested by the editorial team and external reviewers.

7. Authors must acknowledge their acceptance of Revista de Estudios de la Justicia's editorial and intellectual property guidelines.

C. Peer reviewers’s duties and responsibilities

1. Reviewers must provide an objective analysis of the manuscripts submitted for review. Reviewers should only accept review assignments for texts within their expertise, experience, and knowledge.

2. Reviewers must disclose any potential conflicts of interest to the editor.

3. If lacking the necessary expertise or experience, or if there are conflicts of interest, reviewers must decline to evaluate the manuscript.

4. Reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of the manuscript during the review process. They may not disclose its contents without consent from the editor or the manuscript's author.

5. Reviewers must provide feedback on the manuscript within the allotted time frame, offering well-founded observations and publication recommendations.

This Code of Ethics was developed following and adapting recommendations from:

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, available at:
https://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME), Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, available at: http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/about-the-recommendations/.