Our Authors/ Researchers Responsibilities 

  • Ensure that all researched work submitted is original, prepared to a high scholarly standard and fully referenced using the prescribed referencing style
  • All researchers are represented accurately and other appropriate acknowledgements are clearly stated including sources of funding if applicable
  • Open and full disclosure of the source of all data and how it was collected
  • Certify that all the data has been acquired in keeping with recognised ethical research standards
  • Read carefully, agree to and  sign a license to publish the research
  • Correspond and comply with the editor and publisher in any requests for data source, proof of authorship or originality in a timely manner.
  • Co-operate with any consequent investigations if any issues are raised by reviewers, editors or the publisher
  • Provide appropriate information  for  errata  if  such an event occurs
  • Remain in good communication with the editors, publisher and any co-authors if the need arises.
  • Recognise that the Editorial Board has the final decision to publish or not publish the work

 

Our Reviewers’ Responsibilities

  • Only review   papers   that   are   relevant   to   their area of expertise
  • Read the papers with appropriate care and attention and use their best efforts to be constructively critical.
  • Regard the work being reviewed as confidential and will not discuss it with others and will keep their own identity from being revealed
  • Review submitted work in a timely manner
  • Report any suspected ethical misconduct which appears in the paper
  • Avoid any offensive language in their appraisals of the paper
  • Agree to review future versions of the work and provide follow up
  • Seek advice from the editor if anything is unclear at any time during the review process or if there is any possible conflict of interest
  • Communicate with both the publisher and editor in a timely manner
  • Treat all papers reviewed fairly without any favor or prejudice

Our Editors’ Responsibilities

  • Only authorise for publication content of the highest quality
  • Ensure that a thorough, objective and blind peer review is conducted for original articles
  • Clearly identify articles which will not be double-blind peer reviewed (i.e. non- academic papers).
  • Be transparent with regards to the review and publication process with appropriate care that individuals will not be identified when it is inappropriate to do so
  • Provide advice to the authors during the submission process when necessary
  • Provide the right to appeal any editorial decisions
  • Be attentive to the possibility of third party material being included in papers for which there may not be sufficient
  • Be prepared to publish errata when
  • Communicate with both the publisher and the author(s)in a timely manner
  • Treat all submissions fairly without any favor or prejudice

Our Administrators’ Responsibilities

  • Log all submissions received in a timely manner
  • Acknowledge receipt of submission to the lead author
  • Check the title of the paper and the abstract for relevance to the conference and where it is not relevant inform the author(s)
  • If the submission form is incomplete, inform the author and hold the abstract until a completed form is submitted
  • Check the paper for formatting, referencing, word count and page length.
  • Return to the author if any of these require alterations
  • Forward the paper to a member of the programme committee for review and remind the reviewer of the due date for the submission
  • Dispatch the reviews to the authors and remain as a conduit between the authors and the reviewers until the paper has been accepted or rejected
  • Treat all authors and reviewers fairly without favor or prejudice