We stand for adhering to the principles by COPE, against all possible wrongdoings. Special emphasis is on checking the papers for originality and avoiding the cases of plagiarism. Please check the Plagiarism Statement.

Allegations about authorship of contributions

It is important that all authors are declared in the list of authors and are declared in the Cover letter form, sent along with a submitted paper. To be considered the author, a person should be responsible for particular research aspect or preparation for work or make particular contribution to the concept, project, fulfillment, or research explanation, and it must be confirmed in the final work form. Insignificant contribution may not be considered as an authorship. A person who provides insignificant contribution or appropriate data or other type of help may be considered as "contributor" by author/co-authors and may be declared in the paper in acknowledgement section. According to our policy, author/co-authors of submitted paper must fill in the Cover letter form to identify all participants, as well as confirm their consent to publish the paper.

Duplicate submission

Authors must present manuscripts which are unique and must not be submitted to any other journal (except for some unusual circumstances and only with reviewer's approval). Sometimes authors may ignore this requirement, submitting the same document to several journals or submitting several documents on the basis of one and the same research. As in plagiarism duplicate submission may take different forms: literal copying, partial, but substantial copying or even paraphrased copying of the research. The publisher sticks to the policy which forbids publication of multiple papers on the basis of a single research. Infringement of this policy will result in immediate rejection along with possible sanctions against authors.

Citation manipulation

Submitted manuscripts that are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author's work, or to articles published in a particular journal, will result in immediate rejection along with possible sanctions against authors.

Data falsification

If the falsified or fabricated data of experimental results (this also includes manipulation of images) will be found in the submitted paper, it will result in an immediate rejection along with possible sanctions against authors.
Sanctions

The following sanctions may be imposed in case of infringement of abovementioned policies:

• Immediate rejection of the manuscript.
• Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to any journal published by "BUP".
• Publication embargo against all authors of the manuscript (prohibition for any new submissions to any journal published by "BUP"). The term of the embargo may vary, but the minimum is 24 months.
• Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of any journal
  published by " BUP".