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Ethics Policy

The authors need to ensure the following:

1. The Article submitted is an original work that is fully referenced and does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity and cannot be considered as plagiarising any other published work.
2. Openly disclose the source of all data and third party material, including previously unpublished work by the authors themselves. Anything that could compromise the originality of the submission should be expressly avoided and/or discussed with the editorial office in the first instance.
3. Anyone who has made a significant contribution to this article been listed as an author. Minor contributors have been noted in the Acknowledgements section.
4. Provide accurate contact details for a designated corresponding author, who shall be deemed by the publisher and editor as fully responsible for the authorship of the paper and all communications concerning the ethical status and originality of the paper.
5. The corresponding author is required to ensure that all co-authors are included in the paper, and that the co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
6. Necessary written permission has been obtained in respect of third party material from the appropriate copyright owner or authorities for the reproduction in the Article and in the Journal of any text, illustration or other material.
7. Declare any potential conflict of interest in the research. (Openly disclose any conflict of interest – for example, if publication were to benefit a company or services in which the author(s) has a vested interest)
8. Any support from a third party has been noted in the Acknowledgements.
9. Sign a copyright form on acceptance of their work, which will assume that the author is empowered to assign copyright to the publisher.
10. Correspond and fully comply with the editor and publisher in any requests for source data, proof of authorship or originality in a timely manner.
11. The Article is not currently under submission to, or consideration by, any other journal or publication, and has not been published before in its current or a substantially similar form.
12. Upon discovery of any significant error in the published work, it is the responsibility of the authors to promptly notify the editors and cooperate in the retraction or correction of the paper.