Publication ethics

1. All materials published in the journal must comply with the rules and regulations of publication ethics.

2. The author submitting the article alone or on behalf of the co-authors (if any) guarantees that:
a) he/she is the author; all persons who have made a significant contribution to the research are to be mentioned as co-authors; people who have not taken part in the research are not to be mentioned as co-authors;
b) all co-authors have seen the final version of the article and approved of its submission for publishing;
c) the article does not contain plagiarism and self-plagiarism (republishing or resubmitting the work or its parts as if it were original);
d) cited, paraphrased and (or) summarized ideas of other researchers are provided with appropriate references;
e) the information used in the course of the research is not classified, was obtained in a legal way, its publishing does not infringe the rights and interests of other people; the information obtained privately is published with the written permission of the informant;
f) the given facts, quotations, proper names, bibliographic data are true and accurate;
g) the article has not been submitted to any other scholarly journals and will not be withdrawn by the author until the decision of the editorial board.

3. The author is obliged to:
a) comply with ethical standards when criticizing or commenting on third-party research, as well as respectfully treat all participants in the editorial and publishing process;
b) comply with the manuscript submission requirements, timely respond to the requests from the technical secretary of the journal related to the provision of the necessary data, formatting the article and making edits to the text after reviewing and arguing its position in case of disagreement with the opinion of the reviewer;
c) in case some errors or inaccuracies are found in the article during or after the completion of the editorial and publishing process, inform the technical secretary of the journal about it;
d) correspond with the editorial board via a personal account available at https://journals-altspu.ru/vestnik;
e) conclude a preliminary license agreement before the stage of reviewing;
f) immediately inform the editorial board in case the article is submitted to another publication before it has been accepted.

4. The authors have the right to:
a) receive information from the editorial office about the stages of the publishing process via their personal accounts available at https://journals-altspu.ru/vestnik;
b) correct the article after the review and argue their points in case of disagreement with the reviewer;
c) withdraw the article at any stage of the editorial and publishing process before the decision to publish it has been made.

5. The editorial board of the journal guarantees:
a) to consider the manuscript as a confidential document that cannot be transferred for review or discussion to third parties who do not have the authority to do so;
b) to ensure the protection of the confidentiality of personal information;
c) not to publish the edited text of the article without agreeing on essential edits with the author.

6. The editorial board of the journal is obliged to:
a) evaluate the intellectual content of manuscripts regardless of race, gender, religious beliefs, origin, citizenship or political preferences of the authors;
b) maintain the anonymity of reviewers notify the reviewers that the manuscripts sent to them are the property of the authors and refer to information that is not subject to disclosure;
c) not allow the article to be published if there are sufficient grounds to believe that it contains plagiarism (self-plagiarism);
d) adhere to the open access policy, according to which the reader is provided with free access to full-text versions of the journal's articles in the "Archive" section of the journal's website https://journals-altspu.ru/vestnik.

7. The editorial board of the journal has the right:
a) if there are several co-authors, to correspond with only one author who submitted the article to the journal;
b) reject the article if it does not comply with the journal’s objectives and themes;
c) retract the article at any stage of the editorial and publishing process, including retraction of the article from the issue, if it is revealed that the authors have hidden the conflict of interest, the article has been published in another journal, incorrect citation (plagiarism), serious errors, falsification of facts have been detected, etc.