Responsibilities of the authors

Authors should realize that they are personally responsible for the submitted text of the manuscript.

Publication standards

Authors of original research manuscripts should provide an accurate account of the work performed and reliable results of the research, as well as an objective discussion of its significance. The work should contain enough detailed information and references to allow other researchers to replicate it. Deliberately false, distorted or falsified statements are equated with unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Data access and storage

Authors may be asked to submit raw data on their work for peer review and should be prepared to make this raw data publicly available, if possible. This data should be kept for a reasonable time after the publication of the article.

Originality and plagiarism

Authors should ensure that the research results presented in the manuscript are completely original work. In case of using fragments of other people's works and/or borrowing statements of other authors, it should be appropriately noted by reference or indicated in the text of the article. Excessive borrowing, as well as plagiarism, in any form, including unformatted quotes, paraphrasing or assigning rights to the results of other people's research, are unethical and unacceptable actions. Articles that are a compilation of materials previously published by other authors, without creative processing of them and the author's own comprehension are not accepted for publication by the editorial board.

Numerous, duplicate or simultaneous publications

As a rule, authors should not publish material describing the same research in more than one article. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time is unethical behavior and unacceptable.

An author should not submit an article already published in another journal for consideration. Sometimes it is permissible to publish articles in more than one journal in a different form (e.g., translation), but subject to the requirements: the authors and editor of the published work must agree to republish itwhich should be identical to the original document in terms of data presentation and interpretation. In case of republication, reference should be made to a previously published article and indicate how the new work differs significantly from the previous one. A more detailed description of the acceptable forms of republication can be found at www.icmje.org.

Recognition of sources

The authors should recognize the contribution of all persons who in one way or another influenced the course of the research or determined the nature of the presented scientific work. In particular, the article should contain bibliographic references to publications that were relevant to the research. Information obtained in a private conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties should not be used without their explicit written permission. All sources must be disclosed. Information obtained in the course of confidential activities, such as reviewing manuscripts or grant applications, should not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the information involved in such confidential activities.

Authorship of the work

Authorship should be limited to those persons who have made a significant contribution to the conception, planning, or interpretation of the research results. The correct composition of the list of co-authors should be ensured. The list of co-authors should include all persons who have made a significant intellectual contribution to the conception, structure, and execution or interpretation of the results of the work presented. Other persons who participated in some aspects of the work should be acknowledged. The author must also ensure that all co-authors have read the final version of the article, approved it, and agree to its submission for publication. All authors listed in the article are publicly responsible for the content of the article. If the article is a multidisciplinary work, co-authors may be responsible for their personal contribution, while maintaining collective responsibility for the overall result. Among the co-authors, it is unacceptable to give names that did not participate in the study.

Potential hazards and use of people or animals

If the work involves chemicals, hazardous procedures, or equipment that may lead to unacceptable risks, the author should clearly indicate this in the manuscript. If the work involves research with animals or humans, the author should include in the manuscript a statement that all procedures were performed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and were approved by the relevant committee of the institution/organization where the research was conducted. In their manuscript, authors should include a separate statement that permission has been obtained for experiments with human subjects

Disclosure of information and conflict of interest

Authors should disclose in their manuscripts all sources of funding for the work, declare possible conflicts of interest that may affect the results of the study, their interpretation, and the judgment of the reviewers. Examples of potential conflicts of interest that should be disclosed include: employment, consulting, shareholdings, payment of fees, payment for expert testimony, patent application or registration, grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed as early as possible.

Fundamental errors in published works

In the event that significant errors or inaccuracies are found in the article at the stage of its review or after its publication, the editorial board should be immediately notified and a decision should be made to recognize the error and/or correct it as soon as possible. If the editorial board learns from a third party that the published work contains significant errors, the author is obliged to correct them immediately or provide the editorial board with evidence of the correctness of the information provided by him/her.

Detecting plagiarism

The Journal of Maritime Medicine is committed to assisting the scientific community in all aspects of implementing the policy of publishing ethics, especially in case of suspected duplication of an article or plagiarism.