Journal Policies

Authorship policy

MJ Cell Press journals adhere to the ICMJE authorship criteria. Full details can be found here ICMJE

Plagiarism policy

MJ Cell Press journals are strictly against any unethical act of copying or plagiarism in any form (Full Plagiarism, Partial Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism). Articles submitted to all our journals will be scrutinized for plagiarism and evidence of such duplication during the review/editorial process will lead to rejection of any unpublished article. If the plagiarism is proven after publication, such manuscript(s) will be retracted from the journal and an appropriate announcement will be placed in this regard. Serious plagiarism (e.g. entire articles or sections of an article) may be reported to the authors’ institutions.

Licensing, copyright, and author Self-Archiving policies

Upon submitting an article, authors should be agreed to abide by an open-access Creative Commons license. Under the terms of this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright of their articles. However, the license permits any user to download, print out, extract, reuse, archive, and distribute the article, so long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and the source of the work. The license ensures that the article will be available as widely as possible and that the article can be included in any scientific archive. MJ Cell Pres journals allow the authors to self-archive pre-print, post-print, and publishers’ versions of the article

Conflicts of Interest

Authors are required to declare any conflict of interest (COI) that may affect their research and their article. Editors and reviewers are required to declare any COI that may affect their judgement when deciding if a submission is worth publishing and to withdraw from handling such articles. Such COIs include funding, personal relationships, working in competing labs or research, recent collaboration with authors/reviewers/editors, etc.