Privacy

Manuscripts should be reviewed with due respect for author confidentiality. Authors trust the editors with the results of their scientific work and creative efforts, on which their reputation and career may depend. The rights of authors should not be violated by the disclosure of confidential information during the review of manuscripts.

Reviewers also have a right to confidentiality, which must be maintained by the editor. Confidentiality may be breached if dishonesty or fraud is involved, but must otherwise be maintained.

Only manuscripts whose text is recommended by reviewers are published in the journal. Reviewing is done confidentially. The last name of the reviewer may be disclosed to the author only with the reviewer's consent.

The editorial board should not (unnecessarily) disclose information about manuscripts (including their receipt, content, pending status, reviewer critiques, or final fate) to anyone other than the authors, reviewers, or publisher.

Manuscripts submitted for consideration are the private property of the authors. Therefore, reviewers and editorial board members should respect authors' rights by not publicly discussing their work before publication of the manuscript and not appropriating their ideas. Violation of confidentiality is possible only in the case of the reviewer's statement about the unreliability or falsification of the materials presented in the article.

Reviewers are not permitted to make copies of manuscripts. It is also forbidden to transfer them to other people, except with the permission of the editor. Reviewers must return or destroy copies of manuscripts after submission of feedback. The editors should not keep copies of rejected manuscripts.

Reviewer comments may not be published or otherwise made public without the permission of the reviewer, author, and editor.