These guidelines refer to the best editorial practices by COPE and are available at:

http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines

Functions and responsibilities of the Scientific Committee

• Promote the submission of articles for possible publication in the journal among the national and international academic community.
• Suggest academic guidelines to update the journal’s editorial policy.
• Promote the dissemination of the journal in national and international academic media.
• Participate as reviewers of works submitted for possible publication or recommend other experts as reviewers.

 Functions of the Editorial Committee

• Promote the submission of articles for possible publication in the journal among the national and international academic community.
• Support in the selection of reviewers for the submitted works, as well as deliberate on the best options for reviewers when necessary.
• Decide on the relevance of the materials received, on the basis of the experts’ reviews.
• Approve the content proposed for each number of the journal.
• Review and assess each issue published.
• Collaborate with the corresponding parts to maintain the periodicity established for publication.

 Functions and responsibilities of the editor-in-chief and editors

• Coordinate the actions that lead to meet the journal’s goals.
• Ensure a high academic level in the published content.
• Receive the works submitted for possible publication and ask for the reviews to the academic peers.
• Monitor the fulfilment of the reviewers’ recommendations.
• Report the authors on the stage of the editorial process in which the submitted text is.
• Report the Editorial Committee the reviewing process on all the materials received, being careful with confidentiality.
• Propose the Editorial Committee the content of each journal number, on the basis of the texts corrected and approved at that time.

 Functions and responsibilities of the associate editor

• Coordinate the editorial process review.
• Plan and coordinate the journal’s editorial production process.
• Supervise the technical processing of the materials approved by the Editorial committee, once the established academic requirements have been met.
• Supervise proofreading and the journal’s technical quality.
• Collaborate to maintain the periodicity established for the journal publishing and that the dissemination and distribution of each number begins within the first month of the corresponding period.

 Responsibilities of the technical editor

• Run Ithenticate in order to detect plagiarism.
• Formatting the works approved to be published.
• Include the corrections into the formatted texts.
• Upload the works to OJS.
• Updating of contents and design of

 Authors’ responsibilities

• Follow the journal’s publication requirements regarding: originality, unpublished texts, relevance.
• Present their results with honesty, without lying, falsifying or manipulating data.
• Assume collective responsibility, if this is the case, for the presented and published work.
• Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest must be stated in the article.
• Quote the work of others accurately and only refer publications mentioned in the text.
• The authors must report the editors if the results have been previously published or if various results or multiple analysis one same dataset are being considered for publication somewhere else. The authors must provide copies of the related publications or works sent to other journals.

 Reviewers’ responsibilities

• Accept the revision of texts that fall into their area of expertise so that a suitable review is performed.
• Declare from the beginning of the process if there is a conflict of interest. If the identity of any author is suspected, notify the journal if this situation poses any conflict of interest.
• Reject the revision immediately if it is no possible for them to deliver it within the deadline.
• Produce their assessment on the basis of originality, contribution of the article to the topic, methodology, relevance and up-to-dateness of the bibliography reported; style, coherence and quality and structure in the drafting of the text.
• Report the journal, immediately, if over the review they find or discover they do not have the necessary experience to assess all the aspects of the text.
• Their criticisms shall be objective, specific and constructive.
• Clearly state the approval, rejection or conditioning of the text.
• Produce their assessment within the deadline.
• Respect confidentiality during and after the review process.
• Not use contents of the revised or in-revision text.
• Do not involve other people in the assigned revision.
• Communicate the journal if similarity with other text they have revised is detected or if any sort of plagiarism is noticed.
• Transferring the responsibility to perform a review to another person, assistant or collaborator is forbidden.