Ethical guidelines for authors:

1. Submitted manuscripts must be the original work of the author(s).
2. Authors must appropriately cite any studies relevant to their works in their manuscripts.
3. Authors must not submit their manuscript to more than one journal at the same time.
4. Any conflict of interest must be clearly declared.
5. Manuscripts describing any experimental research on animals should include a statement of approval by the Ethical Committee of the institute where the work was done, mentioning that the study was carried out according to the legal requirements of the relevant local or national authority.
6. Acknowledge the sources of data used in the development of the manuscript

Ethical guidelines for reviewers:

1. All information pertaining to the manuscript should be kept confidential.
2. Reviewers should be objective and constructive in their reviews.
3. All manuscripts should be reviewed in fairness based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenry nor political values of author(s).
4. Reviewers should respond in a reasonable time-frame, only agree to review a manuscript if they can return a review within the proposed time-frame, informing the journal promptly if they require an extension.
5. Any observed conflict of interest during the review process must be communicated to the Editor.
6. Reviewers should not contact the authors directly without the permission of the journal.
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Ethical guidelines for editors:

1. Plagiarism is globally recognized as a serious academic offence.
2. The information pertaining manuscripts are kept confidential.
3. Editor in Chief takes responsibility for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts based on the reviewer’s evaluation of the manuscript, policies of the journal editorial board and copyright infringement