Ethical Guidelines

Ethical Guidelines for Authors

1. The authors must declare that the submitted manuscript has not been published elsewhere.
2. Authors must not submit the manuscript in any other journal while it is in the review process at IJBAT.
   Authors must declare that they do not have any conflict of interest. 

• The corresponding author must ensure that all the authors have contributed to the submitted article. The corresponding author must also ensure that the author sequence of the manuscripts finalized with the consent of all co-authors.

1. The manuscript must contain the full names, email addresses, designation, and affiliation of all authors. 
2. If the authors have received funds for the submitted article, they must clearly state it at the end of the manuscript.
3. The copyright of the published manuscript stays with the authors. However, the content of the published manuscript can be used with proper citation.

 

Ethical Responsibility of the Publisher

1. The journal does not publish research papers submitted by the editorial team members.
2. Advisory board members can submit their manuscripts in the journal but are not encouraged.

• Reviewers are not encouraged to submit their manuscripts in the journal. However, once in a while, we receive manuscripts from a reviewer. In such cases, we do not send the manuscript to the reviewer who has submitted the article for consideration. Moreover, article is also not sent to the reviewer’s affiliated organization for peer review.

1. IJBAT does not encourage the manuscript submission from EARD management, including the CEO and Directors.
2. We allow a maximum of one self-publication in the journal.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. Self-Institutional publications limit for the journal is one for each issue. Institutional publication is inclusive of all the members and directors.

Publication Frequency

The IJBAT publishes two issues annually in January, and July. Occasionally, IJBAT can publish special issues about specific research themes. These special issues can have specific editors. For these special issues, specific calls for papers will be announced.

Plagiarism Policy

The journal has a zero-tolerance policy towards plagiarism. All manuscripts are screened for plagiarism using the Turnitin software. As per HEC guidelines, all manuscripts should have a similarity index of less than or equal to 19%. Authors are requested to read the HEC plagiarism policy. Its link is as follows:

https://hec.gov.pk/english/services/faculty/Documents/Plagiarism/Plagiarism%20Policy.pdf