Ethics are the most important fundamental principle of investigation and research among academic scientists. "Social, management and tourism letter”policy is to publish high-quality scientific works considering the following Publication Ethics about the expected ethical behavior for all parties related to Social, management and tourism letter publication, including the author, the peer reviewer, and the editor. For all parties involved in the act of publishing it is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior. The ethics statements for the "Social, management and tourism letter" are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Duties of the Editors-in-Chief
Fair play
Submitted manuscripts are evaluated for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality
The Editor-in-Chief and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an Editor’s own research without the explicit written consent of the author(s).
Publication decisions
The handling Editor-in-Chief of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the submitted articles should be published. The Editor-in-Chief may be guided by the policies of the journal’s Editorial Board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
Editorial should:
Publication decisions: Editors have complete responsibility and authority in terms of rejecting / accepting an article. Although this decision should only be based on the paper’s relevance to " Social, management and tourism letter "’s scope as well as its academic quality, including, its innovation, the research validity, the reviewers’ judgments etc.
Confidentiality: The confidentiality of the submitted papers which should be only disclose to the authors, the reviewers, the potential reviewers, the adviser from the Social, management and tourism letter Editorial Committee, and the publisher if necessary before publication, should be guaranteed by editors and the editorial staff.
Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to papers they reject/accept.
Double-blind review in the peer review process should be regarded.
Promote publication of correction or retraction, when errors are detected.
Duties of peer reviewers
Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review assists the Editor-in-Chief in making editorial decisions and, through the editorial communication with the author, may also assist the author in improving the manuscript.
Promptness
Any invited referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its timely review will be impossible should immediately notify the Editor-in-Chief so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except if authorized by the Editor-in-Chief.
Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is unacceptable. Referees should express their views clearly with appropriate supporting arguments.
Acknowledgment of sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the Editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published data of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and conflict of interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider evaluating manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the submission.
Duties of The authors:
• Original papers should report the research and the process of data collection accurately, discuss its significance objectively, give experiment details enough to reproduce the research or experiment by others, and cite and list the references exactly according to the Social, management and tourism letter requirement and Social, management and tourism letter reference style. • Data access and retention: The raw data of the research should be available even after the paper’s publication for at least five years. • Originality and plagiarism: Only entirely original findings can be submitted to Social, management and tourism letter. All the work or words of others should be cited or quoted appropriately. Plagiarism and fraudulent data papers will not be considered for publication by Journal of Social, Management and Tourism Letter. • Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication: Papers accepted in Social, management and tourism letter should not be published in any other journal. Submitting the same research in different languages and the under-review manuscripts to different journals are also unethical behavior, which are not acceptable by Social, management and tourism letter.. • All authors should have significantly contributed to the research. • All the financial support for the research should be disclosed. • All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes. • Acknowledgement of sources should be added to the paper.
Authorship should be limited to:
Those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study.
Those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.
Others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or another substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or their interpretation in the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal’s Editor-in-Chief or publisher and cooperate with them to either retract the paper or to publish an appropriate erratum.
Publisher’s confirmation
In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication or plagiarism the publisher, in close collaboration with the Editors-in-Chief, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum or, in the most severe cases, the complete retraction of the affected work.
Publication:
Publishing the same work in more than one journal is forbidden.
Plagiarism and fraudulent data are severely forbidden.
Publishing the same work in different languages is also forbidden.
Monitoring/safeguarding publishing ethics by editorial board.
Dealing with the fundamental errors.
When an author discovers fundamental errors in the published works, it is the author’s obligation to notify the editor promptly by e-mail. The editors and the editorial stuff should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.
Ethics are the most important fundamental principle of investigation and research among academic scientists. "Social, management and tourism letter” policy is to publish high-quality scientific works considering the following Publication Ethics about the expected ethical behavior for all parties related to Social, management and tourism letter publication, including the author, the peer reviewer, and the editor. For all parties involved in the act of publishing it is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior. The ethics statements for the "Social, management and tourism letter" are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Fair play
Submitted manuscripts are evaluated for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality
The Editor-in-Chief and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an Editor’s own research without the explicit written consent of the author(s).
Publication decisions
The handling Editor-in-Chief of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the submitted articles should be published. The Editor-in-Chief may be guided by the policies of the journal’s Editorial Board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
Publication decisions: Editors have complete responsibility and authority in terms of rejecting / accepting an article. Although this decision should only be based on the paper’s relevance to " Social, management and tourism letter "’s scope as well as its academic quality, including, its innovation, the research validity, the reviewers’ judgments etc.
Confidentiality: The confidentiality of the submitted papers which should be only disclose to the authors, the reviewers, the potential reviewers, the adviser from the Social, management and tourism letter Editorial Committee, and the publisher if necessary before publication, should be guaranteed by editors and the editorial staff.
Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to papers they reject/accept.
Double-blind review in the peer review process should be regarded.
Promote publication of correction or retraction, when errors are detected.
Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review assists the Editor-in-Chief in making editorial decisions and, through the editorial communication with the author, may also assist the author in improving the manuscript.
Promptness
Any invited referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its timely review will be impossible should immediately notify the Editor-in-Chief so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except if authorized by the Editor-in-Chief.
Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is unacceptable. Referees should express their views clearly with appropriate supporting arguments.
Acknowledgment of sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the Editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published data of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and conflict of interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider evaluating manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the submission.
• Original papers should report the research and the process of data collection accurately, discuss its significance objectively, give experiment details enough to reproduce the research or experiment by others, and cite and list the references exactly according to the Social, management and tourism letter requirement and Social, management and tourism letter reference style.
• Data access and retention: The raw data of the research should be available even after the paper’s publication for at least five years.
• Originality and plagiarism: Only entirely original findings can be submitted to Social, management and tourism letter. All the work or words of others should be cited or quoted appropriately. Plagiarism and fraudulent data papers will not be considered for publication by Journal of Social, Management and Tourism Letter.
• Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication: Papers accepted in Social, management and tourism letter should not be published in any other journal. Submitting the same research in different languages and the under-review manuscripts to different journals are also unethical behavior, which are not acceptable by Social, management and tourism letter..
• All authors should have significantly contributed to the research.
• All the financial support for the research should be disclosed.
• All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
• Acknowledgement of sources should be added to the paper.
Authorship should be limited to:
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or another substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or their interpretation in the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal’s Editor-in-Chief or publisher and cooperate with them to either retract the paper or to publish an appropriate erratum.
Publisher’s confirmation
In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication or plagiarism the publisher, in close collaboration with the Editors-in-Chief, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum or, in the most severe cases, the complete retraction of the affected work.
When an author discovers fundamental errors in the published works, it is the author’s obligation to notify the editor promptly by e-mail. The editors and the editorial stuff should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.