Publication Ethics

Editorial Policy · Last updated: June 2026

EBJET is committed to upholding the integrity of the scholarly record. Our policies follow the best-practice guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and apply to authors, editors, and reviewers alike.

Our commitment

Trust in published research depends on everyone involved acting honestly and responsibly. EBJET expects all parties—authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher, EleventhBit—to follow the standards set out below. Suspected breaches are taken seriously and handled in line with COPE guidance.

Authors' responsibilities

  • Originality. Submitted work must be the authors' own, not published elsewhere, and not under consideration by another journal.
  • No plagiarism. All sources must be properly cited. Copying text, ideas, or data without attribution is unacceptable in any form.
  • Data integrity. Data must be genuine; fabrication, falsification, or selective reporting that misleads is prohibited.
  • Authorship. Everyone listed must have contributed substantially; everyone who contributed substantially must be listed. Gift and ghost authorship are not permitted.
  • Disclosure. Authors must declare all funding sources and any financial or personal conflicts of interest.
  • Ethical approval. Research involving human participants or animals must have appropriate ethics approval and informed consent, stated in the manuscript.
  • Acknowledgement. Prior work that informed the study must be acknowledged and cited.

Editors' responsibilities

  • Fair, independent decisions. Manuscripts are judged on merit alone, without regard to authors' identity, origin, or beliefs.
  • Confidentiality. Editors keep submitted material confidential and disclose it only to those involved in review.
  • Conflicts of interest. Editors recuse themselves from any manuscript where they have a competing interest.
  • Vigilance. Editors investigate credible concerns about published or submitted work and act on confirmed misconduct.

Reviewers' responsibilities

Reviewers treat manuscripts as confidential, assess them objectively and constructively, declare conflicts of interest, and flag any ethical concern to the editor. The full reviewer code is set out on the peer review process page.

Plagiarism & similarity screening

Every submission is checked with similarity-detection software during editorial screening. Manuscripts showing substantial overlap with existing work, or evidence of plagiarism, are returned or rejected, and serious cases may be reported to the authors' institutions.

Use of AI & generative tools

Authors who use generative AI tools (for example, to draft or edit text) must disclose this in the manuscript. AI tools cannot be listed as authors and cannot be held accountable for the work—the human authors remain fully responsible for all content, including anything produced with AI assistance, and for its accuracy and integrity.

Misconduct, corrections & retractions

Where misconduct is alleged, EBJET investigates following the relevant COPE flowcharts, giving the authors an opportunity to respond. Depending on the findings, the journal may publish a correction, an expression of concern, or a retraction. Authors are expected to cooperate and to retract or correct their own work promptly when significant errors are found.

Complaints & appeals

Concerns about an editorial decision or about the conduct of the journal can be raised with the editor at editor@ebjet.eleventhbit.com. Appeals against decisions are handled as described on the peer review page.