Ethical standards

Ethics Code

Editor Duties

1. To take into consideration submitted manuscripts for publication, base decisions solely on academic and scientific merit, and maintain editorial standards.

2. To make relevant modifications ex officio or request the author to amend the manuscript to comply with editorial rules.

3. To reject any submission that does not comply with editorial rules, or is suspected of conflict of interests or academic fraud.

4. To forward manuscripts proposed for acceptance to external evaluators, while guaranteeing anonymity of authorship and confidentiality to third parties.

5. o take corresponding measures ex officio or by a third party request, to avoid or repair cases of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, double publication, or other kinds of academic fraud, such as conflict of interest. In case of conflict, recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) will be followed.

6. To make the clarifications, rectifications, amendments, or retirement of articles to eliminate problems detected after publication of a journal issue. Such will be announced in the website after resolution of the problem.

7. To keep constant communication with authors and external evaluators, clearing up any doubts about a review, its evaluation, and publication process in general.

8. To receive and answer inquiries from third parties outside the publication process.

Author Duties

1. To be considered an author of a manuscript, a person must have significantly contributed to the conception and/or the design of the submission, to data collection and/or analysis and its interpretation; to the drafting or review of the manuscript, making relevant contributions to it; or to give approval to the final version of the text to be submitted for publication. Those who make other types of contributions will not be considered authors, but collaborators, and must be named in the acknowledgment section of the text.

2. Authors must send original and unpublished manuscripts. Original refers to all texts that are from the exclusive authorship of the people listed as authors. Any use of external material without authorization from its authors, or under exceptions contemplated by the intellectual property law and in the way established by the Chilean Journal of Law and Technology. Unpublished refers to a text that has not previously appeared in Spanish, whether in full length or long fragments.

3. Authors will not submit manuscripts simultaneously to more than one academic journal at the time.

4. Authors must not make any reference that would allow themselves to be identified either in the body of the manuscript or in the metadata associated with it, so as to guarantee their anonymity during the third party evaluation.

5. Authors must make a statement about any conflict of interest.

6. Authors must make any requested corrections by the editorial team, and by the external evaluators.

7. Authors must state their agreement with the editorial and intellectual property norms of the Chilean Journal of Law and Technology.

External Evaluators (peers/reviewers) Duties

1. valuators must objectively analyze manuscripts submitted for review. Evaluators will accept for review those texts that relate to subjects which they have enough competence, experience, and knowledge on which to perform the analysis.

2. Evaluators must inform the editor about potential conflict of interest.

3. The evaluator must decline to review a manuscript in case of lack of subject competence, experience, or knowledge needed to perform an evaluation, or in case of conflict of interest.

4. Evaluators must keep the confidentiality of the manuscript during the review process. They will not be able to reveal its content in any way without consent from the editor or the author of the manuscript.

5. Evaluators will complete their review within the allotted time limits given by the editor. Comments about the manuscript and the recommendation to publish or not publish should be supported.

This Ethics Code has been created following and adapting the recommendation of:

- Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, available at: http://publicationethics.org/files/Code%20of%20Conduct_2.pdf

- 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/