Editorial Ethics Policy
The Journal of the Public Defender's Office of the State of Rio Grande do Sul is committed to ethics and quality of publications, following national and international standards of scientific publication. We follow the guidelines of the Code of Conduct and Good Practices of the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) ( https://publicationethics.org) . For information on the Code, see the original text in English https://publicationethics.org/files/Codeofconductforjournaleditors1pdf
The Public Defender's Office of the State of Rio Grande do Sul uses Copyspider to prevent plagiarism. The link is available here: https://copyspider.com.br/main/
Ethical principles:
The decisions of the Editors and the Editorial and Scientific Board will not be influenced by considerations of sources of income or by political interference.
The journal is committed to ethical principles and is willing to publish corrections, clarifications and retractions when necessary.
With regard to ethical complaints about a published manuscript or article, the editors will take the necessary measures to investigate any complaints and make any corrections or retractions.
Responsibilities of Editors
Publication decision: The editors responsible for deciding which articles are submitted to the journal and which should be published are guided by the journal's policies, which must comply with legal requirements, copyright infringement and plagiarism .
Transparency and respect: Editors should evaluate submitted manuscripts without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or political philosophy.
Confidentiality: Editors should not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript except to the editorial team.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest: Editors may refuse to review or publish manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest, due to collaborative, competitive or other issues with any of the authors. When necessary, the editor may designate a specific and impartial editor to handle the process of a given article.
Involvement and cooperation in investigations: Editors should take appropriate action when ethical complaints are raised regarding a submitted manuscript or published article, provided that it provides sufficient information and evidence for an investigation to be initiated.
Editorial responsibility: editors must always preserve the identity of reviewers in anonymity and treat manuscripts as confidential documents.
Duties of reviewers
Confidentiality: papers received for analysis must be treated as confidential documents. No information about the manuscript should be disclosed to third parties. Third parties are prohibited from retaining or copying the manuscript.
Disclosure and conflict of interest: reviewers must maintain confidentiality and must not use, for personal gain, ideas obtained through reading the manuscripts.
Regarding sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors, and should draw the editors' attention to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript in question and any other published article of which they have personal knowledge.
Responsibilities of the author(s)
Originality and plagiarism: authors must ensure that their works are entirely original and if they use texts or images from others, this is duly cited.
Authorship: Authorship of the work should be restricted to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the submitted study.
All those who made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.
The lead author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included in the paper.
The lead author must certify that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and agree to its submission for publication.
Multiple, redundant, and simultaneous publication: Authors should not publish manuscripts that describe essentially the same content in more than one journal.
About sources: authors should cite publications that were important in determining the nature of the manuscript, as the work of other authors should always be acknowledged. Information obtained in conversation, correspondence or discussion with third parties should be used only with the explicit written permission of the source.
Errors in published work: When authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, they are obliged to inform and cooperate with the editors to correct the article.
Sources of research funding: it is the authors' responsibility to inform the sources of funds used for research.
Thematic relevance: the author(s) must consider the thematic relevance of the manuscripts for this journal and demonstrate attention to the values and principles for the Public Defender's Office of the State of Rio Grande do Sul.
