Plagiarism and Image Manipulation
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Authors must ensure that all relevant previously published work is properly acknowledged and cited at the appropriate point in the main text, with the correct bibliographic information given in the Reference list. Quotation marks (" "), with the appropriate citation and Reference, should be used where statements made in a previously published work are reproduced verbatim. The journal reserves the right to employ automated tools to identify any instances of plagiarism and to withdraw the article if detected.
Authors are also responsible for obtaining permission from the rights holder to adapt or reproduce material previously published elsewhere (typically, this will be the publisher) and for including any required permission statement alongside the citation.
Artwork
The journal will not accept artwork that is manipulated to hide, add, remove, merge, or otherwise change any of the original data. Adjustments to the brightness or contrast of artwork are acceptable, providing they are applied to the entire image and do not obscure any feature of the original. Tools that detect the manipulation of data may be utilized by the journal to ensure that original data have been preserved in the final image.
