- Author's ethics
Originality and plagiarism
The authors of the article must ensure that they have written a completely original work, and if the authors have used the work and / or words of other authors, it should be appropriately noted by reference or indicated in the text.
Plagiarism takes many forms, from impersonating someone else's work as one's own to copying or paraphrasing essential parts of someone else's work (without citing the source), as well as to claiming rights to the results obtained in studies performed by others. Plagiarism in all its forms is unethical behaviour when publishing and is unacceptable.
Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time is unethical and unacceptable publishing behaviour. The author should not submit for consideration already published article in another journal.
The uniqueness of the text of article is checked with using the Unicheck plagiarism signs search system.
Authorship of the work
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, planning, execution, or interpretation of the study described.
All persons who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. If any person has participated in any substantial part of the project, he/she should be thanked or included in the list of co-authors.
Disclosure and conflict of interest.
All authors should disclose in their manuscript a financial or any other material conflict of interest that could affect the evaluation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be made public.
Errors in published works
If the author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his published work, his duty is to urgently notify the chief editor about this and cooperate with the editor to publish a retraction or correction of the article. If the editor-in-chief learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the responsibility of the author to promptly refute or correct the article, or to provide the editor-in-chief with proof of the correctness of the published work.
Reliability of the presented results
The authors are responsible for the content of the publication, the reliability of the results presented in the article. Authors should check references to cited works.
2. License agreement
Journal "Innovative Technologies in Transportation Engineering" practices open access policy. There is a system of free information dessimination of scientific and knowledge in journal. All content of the journal "Innovative Technologies in Transportation Engineering" is freely available to the user or his institution. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles in this journal. According to BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) , using of the content of the journal does not require the permission of the publisher or author. CC BY license is used by the journal "Innovative Technologies in Transportation Engineering". Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.
3. Reviewing
The procedure for reviewing scientific articles submitted to the journal:
- Manuscripts of scientific articles submitted to the Editorial Board are subject to mandatory review; When submitting a manuscript, identify two reviewers per research topic who are not employed at your institution
- The Chairman of the Editorial Board determines the compliance of the manuscript with the profile of the journal and the requirements for registration;
- After consideration of the manuscript at the meeting of the Editorial Board, the manuscript is sent for review to a specialist (doctor or candidate of sciences) who has the closest scientific specialization to the topic of the article. If the article does not correspond to the subject of the journal, the author is informed about the impossibility of its publication;
- Type of review - bilateral blind (anonymous). Manuscripts sent to reviewers are the private property of the authors and contain information that is not subject to disclosure. Reviewers are not allowed to make copies of articles, as well as transfer articles for review to another specialist;
- The reviewer evaluates:
correspondence of the content of the article to its title;
structure of the paper (problem statement, main part and conclusions);
scientific or technical novelty in the article;
advantages and disadvantages of the article.
6. The reviewer gives an opinion on the possibility of publication of the article:
adopt article;
accept the article with minor revision - the author is sent the text of the review with a proposal to make the necessary changes and additions to the article or reasoned to refuse the reviewer's comments, then the manuscript is considered at a meeting of the Editorial Board for compliance with the requirements of the reviewer;
review the article again after serious revision - the author is sent the text of the review with a proposal to revise the article, then the article revised by the author is sent for re-reviewing;
reject the article - a reasoned refusal is sent to the author, the article is not submitted for reconsideration.
7. Manuscripts of articles accepted for publication are not returned to the author;
8. Manuscripts of articles accepted for publication, together with the text of the reasoned refusal, are returned to the author.
