ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF AUTHORS

Libre Empresa welcomes the directive "Responsible Research Publishing: International Standards for Publishers", adopted at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity-Singapore. Text also published by COPE

 Authorship

 The list of authors should include only those persons who have contributed intellectually to the development of the work. The declaration of authorship should accurately reflect the individual contributions to the work. The authors commit themselves to assume the collective responsibility of the work presented and published, Libre Empresa Journal declines any responsibility for possible conflicts derived from the authorship of the works published in the Journal.

 Financing

 Authors should declare both sources of funding and possible conflicts of interest.

 Obtaining permission

 Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to partially reproduce material (text, tables or figures) from other publications. Such permissions should be sought from both the author and the publisher who has published the material.

 Redundant or duplicate publication

 Libre Empresa does not accept previously published material and will not consider for publication manuscripts that are submitted simultaneously to other journals, nor redundant or duplicate publications, that is, articles that substantially overlap another already published, in print or in electronic media. It is necessary to cite and include the bibliographical reference of these previous publications in the new manuscript. Authors should be aware that failure to disclose that material submitted for publication has already been fully or partially published constitutes a serious breach of scientific ethics.

 If Libre Empresa, during the editorial process, finds falsification, omission of data, duplication of articles or plagiarism, the original will be returned to the author with due notification to its sponsoring institution, research center or university. Each of the articles submitted to the journal will be verified with internal procedures to avoid plagiarism and duplication of articles.

 Responsibility for reviewers

 Libre Empresa evaluators should be ready to resolve any concerns publishers may have about the publication of authors. They must be committed to the enrichment of the manuscript they are evaluating, a process that includes the inclusion of views and data that they feel are appropriate, within the time frame stipulated by the journal.

Treat the manuscript with the commitment to confidentiality that is expected in this type of evaluation of original material: no plagiarism, retention, copying. Evaluators must inform the editor of any conflict of interest that prevents him/her from objectively evaluating the text, which may result in a statement of estoppel.