Journal of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
EDITORIAL POLICIES
Duties of Editors
Publication decisions
The editors of the journal are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editors are guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be enforced regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editorial board will confer with each other or reviewers in making this decision.
Fair Play
Manuscripts will be evaluated strictly based on their intellectual content.
Confidentiality
The editorial board members and editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the publisher. They must not use such materials without the authors consent.
Conflict of interest
Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the submissions.
PUBLICATION ETHICS
The Journal of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences is committed to publishing high quality research works in the areas of Veterinary Medicine, Biomedical Sciences and other relevant fields. All parties involved in the act of publishing (the author, the journal editor(s), the peer reviewers and the publisher) must comply with standard ethical behaviour. The ethics statements for JVBS are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (https://publicationethics.org/).