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The Editorial Board of "Humanities and law studies” journal is dedicated to follow fair practice of publication based on:

• Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics: 
  https://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct 
  
  
• Declaration of the Association of Science Editors and Publishers "Ethics principles of academic publications": http://hfrir.jvolsu.com/index.php/ru/component/attachments/download/1124 
  
  
• RF Civil Code (Article 70. Copyright)

The Editorial Board of "Humanities and law studies" journal is responsible for:

• evaluating manuscripts and making decisions based on the principle of justice and fairness without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors;
  
  
• elimination of business and political influence on pursuing publication ethics and maintaining high intellectual level of the journal;
  
  
• abidance by the principle on freedom of expression as regards the authors, editorial staff and reviewers;
  
  
• striving for meeting requirements of readership, modern science and society;
  
  
• making decision about publication materials following the spectrum of criteria such as relevance to the journal’s scope and content, topicality, novelty and scientific significance of a submitted manuscript, absence of plagiarism, scientific certainty of research results and completeness of conclusions;
  
  
• persistent enhancement of peer-review and editing process; making sure the peer-review process is conducted by competent peer-reviewers in the relevant scientific field;
  
  
• deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published with the account of reviewers’ recommendations for acceptance or rejection for a manuscript they receive;
  
  
• preventing any pressure on the reviewer with the purpose to obtain approval of the manuscript under review;
  
  
• sending reviewers’ observations and recommendations to the author if any revision is required; providing the author of the peer-reviewed article with the opportunity to explicit an authorial research standpoint;
  
  
• justification of a final decision on rejection;
  
  
• not using information contained in unpublished articles for editor’s research purposes;
  
  
• persistent quality enhancement of the journal;
  
  
• extending the Editorial Board and the editorial staff by inviting competent scholars;
  
  
• accepting all rational measures for ensuring the high quality of publication materials;
  
  
• preserving privacy data protection as regards the authors;
  
  
• providing confidentiality of the peer-review process and the name of the reviewer;
  
  
• providing free publication of manuscripts.
  
  

The authors submitting articles to "Humanities and law studies" journal are responsible for:

• submitting only original manuscripts (the check report in "Antiplagiat” service is to be no less than 80% while the remaining 20% can contain the references to relevant scientific sources, regulatory legal acts, terms and set expressions typical of a certain scientific field, etc.);
  
  
• submitting a manuscript edited in accordance to the submission guidelines of the journal;
  
  
• avoiding excessive and inconsistent citing of one’s own works (the reference to fragments from published articles and monographs);
  
  
• ensuring that textual or graphic information from manuscripts published by the author prior or by other authors is cited ethically. There must be full and prominent disclosure of the original source; otherwise, it is regarded as plagiarism. If plagiarism is detected, the authors will be debarred from publishing their papers in the journal in future;
  
  
• presenting an accurate account of the work performed and original data obtained. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. The authors should not give false information or fabrication results;
  
  
• not copying references to sources from the works they are not familiar with directly, the quotations are given in accordance to the submission guidelines of the journal;
  
  
• avoiding duplicate or redundant publications (submission of one and the same manuscript to more than one journal). If the submitted manuscript builds on previously published articles, the authors are encouraged to enclose citations If duplication is detected, the authors will be debarred from publishing their papers in the journal in future;
  
  
• reasonable use of the works published earlier in the manuscript submitted; avoiding references to one’s own works with the purpose of expanding the manuscript;
  
  
• following the ethical standards whilst criticizing and commenting in regard to other authors’ research work;
  
  
• enlisting all co-authors of the article and ensuring that no uninvolved persons are included in the author list;
  
  
• working with the editorial staff to introduce corrections in a timely manner once the decision to publish the manuscript is made;
  
  
• following the norms of copyright: to provide the reference to data, text, scheme, table and figure authorship, etc., copyright materials can be used only with the permission of the owners.
  
  

Peer-review ethics of the journal:

1. the Editorial Board guarantees independent, fair and competent peer-review ensuring objective and impassionate assessment of the quality of the manuscript;
2. the Editorial Board may reserve the right to reject the manuscript without peer-review assessment in case the check report in "Antiplagiat” service reveals plagiarism and inappropriate amount and incorrect citing, as well as in case of detection of unreasonable and excessive references to one’s own works;
3. the Editorial Board sends the manuscripts for peer-review to relevant experts in compliance with the topic of the manuscript;
4. peer-review assessment is sent solely to the author, no indication of reviewer’s name is given;
5. the reviewer shall assess the manuscript and express opinions based on factual information and prove decisions adopted;
6. the reviewer can provide recommendations to improve the manuscript;
7. if the reviewer questions the validity of the manuscript, its quality, topicality, novelty, etc. the author is provided with the opportunity to respond to the observations made;
8. the author-reviewer communication is provided by the technical secretary of the journal. The Editorial Board does not disclose reviewer’s personal data.
   
   

Conflict of interest

To prevent the conflict of interest and, as a consequence, the violation of publication ethics, each party involved in the publishing process is required to comply with the following guidance.

The editor should:

1. appoint another member of the Editorial Board and expert referee in case there is a conflict of interest between the initially appointed reviewer and the manuscript author;
2. consider incoming complaints concerning publication ethics;
3. ensure comprehensive investigation of incorrect citing and plagiarism;
4. avoid using the unpublished manuscript for private research gain;
5. prevent situations, in which authors, reviewers and other relevant parties involved in the production process of scientific works, violate ethics; ensure retraction of fraudulent publications from the scientific environment;
6. ensure confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and avoid handing over the material to the third party, other than reviewers and members of the Editorial Board.

The author should:

1. mention all known and potential sources of the conflict of interest;
2. disclose the employment, institutional affiliations and the source of research funding;
3. disclose relations with production and finance companies which could lead to the conflict of interest.

The reviewer should:

inform the editor-in-chief about the presence of the conflict of interest (double bindings, competing interests) and recuse himself / herself from reviewing the manuscript.

In case comprehensive investigation reveals the violation of publication ethics of the journal, the Editorial Board takes the following measures:

• to reject the publication of the submitted manuscript;
• to publish a notice on correcting the violation in an upcoming issue of the journal;
• to correct the published material in the form available for the readers and indexing systems;
• to reject further cooperation with the author, reviewer, member of the Editorial Board;
• to remove formally the article’s material from the journal.

Author(s) shall have the right to appeal a decision on violation. All appeals must be submitted in written form to the Editorial Board within 30 days of notification of the decision. The appeal must include a rebuttal of the decision, explaining in detail the author(s) rationale for why the decision was in error.