Author Responsibilities

By submitting a manuscript to AJCCE, authors accept the following responsibilities:

Originality: the work is original, has not been published before and is not under consideration elsewhere.
Accurate reporting: data and results are reported honestly, without fabrication, falsification or selective omission.
Authorship: everyone listed as an author made a substantial contribution to the work and agreed to its submission, and other contributors are acknowledged. Any change to the author list after submission must be agreed by all authors and communicated to the editor.
Acknowledging sources: the work of others is cited properly, in line with the Citation Policy.
Permissions: permission has been obtained for any third-party material included in the submission.
Conflicts of interest and funding: any financial or personal relationship that could influence the work, and all sources of funding, are disclosed.
Ethical approval: where the research involves human participants, personal data or animals, the necessary approvals and consent have been obtained.
Data: authors are prepared to provide the data underlying their results if the editor asks for them.
Use of AI: any use of AI tools is disclosed as required by the AI Policy.
Responding to reviews: authors address reviewers' comments fully and respectfully when revising the manuscript.
Errors: authors promptly inform the journal of any significant error in their submitted or published work and cooperate in correcting it.