Publication ethics

Resolution of unethical practices

Any individual or institution may at any time report to the editor and/or the editors knowledge of violations of ethical standards and other irregularities and submit credible information/evidence in order to initiate an investigation. The procedure for verifying the presented evidence is carried out as follows:

  • the Editor-in-Chief makes a decision to initiate an investigation;
  • during that procedure, all evidence is considered confidential material and presented only to those persons who are directly involved in the case;
  • suspects are given the opportunity to respond to the accusations made;
  • if it is determined that an irregularity has indeed occurred, it is assessed whether it is a minor offense or a gross violation of ethical standards.

Minor violations, without consequences for the integrity of the work and the journal, for example when it comes to misunderstanding or incorrect application of journalistic standards, are resolved in direct communication with the authors and reviewers, without the involvement of third parties, in some of the ways, for example:

  • authors and/or reviewers are sent a warning letter;
  • a work correction is published, e.g. in the case when sources that are cited in the text in the prescribed manner are omitted from the list of references;
  • an erratum is published, e.g. if it turns out that the error was caused by an editorial mistake.

In case of a gross violation of ethical standards, the Editor-in-Chief can take various measures:

  • publishes a press release or editorial describing the case;
  • officially notifies the affiliated organization of the author/reviewer;
  • withdraws published work in the manner described under the Withdrawal Policy;
  • imposes a ban on publication in the magazine for a certain period of time;
  • submits the case to competent organizations and regulatory bodies in order to take measures within their jurisdiction.

These measures can be applied individually or simultaneously. In the process of resolving the case, relevant expert organizations, bodies or individuals are consulted as necessary.

When resolving ethically disputed procedures, the editorial office is guided by the guidelines of the Code of Conduct

Preventing plagiarism

The Serbian Journal of Engineering Management does not publish plagiarized works. The editorial office starts from the position that plagiarism, i.e. taking other people's ideas, words or other forms of creative contribution and presenting them as your own, is a gross violation of scientific and publishing ethics. Plagiarism can also include copyright infringement, which is punishable by law.

Plagiarism includes:

  • verbatim (word for word) or almost verbatim downloading or intended, in order to conceal the source, paraphrasing parts of the texts of other authors without clearly indicating the source, in the manner described under Responsibilities of the author;
  • copying equations, data or tables from other documents without proper attribution of the source and/or without the permission of the original author or copyright holder.

Manuscripts showing clear signs of plagiarism will be automatically rejected. In the event that plagiarism is detected in an already published paper, the paper will be revoked (retracted) in accordance with the procedure described under Retraction Policy.

In order to prevent plagiarism in the journal, manuscripts are checked using the iThenticate/CrossRef system. The results obtained from the check are verified by the journal's editors in accordance with the guidelines and recommendations of the Code of Conduct.

Withdrawal Policy

In case of violation of the rights of publishers, copyright holders or the authors themselves, publication of the same manuscript in several journals, false authorship, plagiarism, manipulation of data for the purpose of fraud or any other abuse, the published work must be revoked.

The paper can also be revoked in order to correct serious and numerous mistakes that cannot be covered by the publication of the correction. The revocation is published by the Editor-in-Chief, the author(s) or both parties by mutual agreement.

A retraction takes the form of a separate paper that appears in the contents of the volume and is editorially classified as Retraction or Retraction. In SCIndex (https://scindeks.ceon.rs/journalDetails.aspx?issn=2466-4693), a two-way link (HTML link) is established between the original work and the retraction. The original paper is still preserved in its unaltered form, with a watermark on the PDF document on each page indicating that the article has been retracted.

Retractions are published according to COPE requirements developed by CEON as the publisher of the database in which the journal is primarily indexed.

Conflict of interests

The Serbian Journal of Engineering Management adheres to the conflict of interest policy recommended by COPE and/or other international regulatory bodies (ICMJE, EASE). Authors are required to declare their conflict of interest in the Statement of Conflict of Interest. In the Statement, the authors are obliged to state: 1) a statement about all potential conflicts of interest for each named author relevant to the content of the article or a statement that they do not have such conflicts; 2) a claim about the way in which the article was financed, specifically about financing, partial or total, by some company or, alternatively, a claim that there was no such involvement and 3) a comprehensive explanation of the sponsor's role in the preparation of the article if the article was sponsored, either in whole or in part.

Consent to Disclosure of Information

Authors of papers published in the Serbian Journal of Engineering Management are obliged to demonstrate that they handle data on individuals participating in their studies respecting the highest level of trust and discretion.

Human and animal rights

In articles reporting human experiments, authors should state whether the applied procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the competent committee for human experimentation (institutional and national), as well as with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, revised in 2013.

In articles reporting animal experiments, authors should indicate whether the procedures were in accordance with national or international guidelines. Procedures should be approved by the appropriate ethics committee, if one exists. A statement of compliance with relevant guidelines (Directive 2010/63/EU in Europe) and/or ethical approval must be submitted with the manuscript. Studies must incorporate accepted norms of best veterinary practice regarding animal sacrifice.

Open access policy

The Serbian Journal of Engineering Management is published in the so-called open access. All its content is available to users for free. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of articles, as well as establish HTML links to them, without the obligation to seek the consent of the author or publisher.

The right to use the content without written consent does not release users from the obligation to cite the content of the magazine in the manner described under Licensing.

Archiving the digital version

All published journal volumes are archived by law in the digital depository of the National Library of Serbia and simultaneously deposited in the SCIndex Repository - Serbian Citation Index as the primary full-text database.

Billing of costs to authors

Serbian Journal of Engineering Management does not charge publication costs to authors or third parties. The services of submitting manuscripts and their processing, as well as the services of publishing articles, are free of charge. There are no hidden costs.

Author’s editions

Authors of published papers will receive the print version of the paper for their personal usage.

Licensing

Published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license. The work is allowed to be copied and distributed in all media and formats, to be adapted, modified and upgraded for any purpose, including commercial ones, provided that its original authors are properly cited, a link to the original license is placed and it is indicated that whether the work has been modified. / Published articles are distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA) license. The work is allowed to be copied and distributed in all media and formats, to be adapted, modified and upgraded for any purpose, including commercial ones, provided that its original authors are properly cited, a link to the original license is placed, it is indicated that if the work has been modified and the new work is published under the same license as the original.

Users are obliged to provide a full bibliographic description of the article published in this journal (authors, paper title, journal title, volume, volume, pagination), as well as its DOI designation. In the case of publication in electronic form, they are also required to post an HTML link, both to the original article published in the Serbian Journal of Engineering Management, and to the license used.

Authors may enter into separate, contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of work published in the journal (eg, placement in an institutional repository or publication in a book), citing that the work was originally published in this journal.

Self-Archiving Policy

Authors are allowed to deposit the non-peer-reviewed version of the manuscript (pre-print)/peer-reviewed version of the manuscript (post-print)/published version of the paper in an institutional or thematic repository or publish it on personal websites (including social network profiles, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.), on the website of the institution where they are employed, before and during the review process/at any time after acceptance of the manuscript for publication/at any time after publication in the journal.

Authors are obliged to provide a full bibliographic description of the article published in this journal (authors, paper title, journal title, volume, volume, pagination) and post a link, both to the DOI mark of that article, and to the license used.

DISCLAIMER

The views expressed in the published works do not express the views of the editors and members of the magazine's editorial staff. Authors assume legal and moral responsibility for the ideas expressed in their works. The publisher will not bear any responsibility in the event of any claims for damages.