The prevention of malpractice and lack of ethics of the publication in the context of research are the responsibility of each author, editor, reviewers and institutions who take part in it. Thus the principles developed by Wager & Kleinert (2011) are included as ethical guidelines to be considered. In sum, the papers must accomplish the following (view full document):

• The research intended to be published must have been done in an ethical and responsible way, complying with the current legislation.

• Research findings must be presented in a clear, honest way and data must be valid and reliable, to avoid plagiarism and inappropriate data manipulation.

• As far as possible, researchers must follow the publishing standards which require papers to be original, free from plagiarism or published elsewhere.

• Authors have responsibility on the work sent and published.

• Authorship of research articles must reflect the individual contributions of the authors to the work and editing done.

• It is advisable to mention the type of finance received for the development of the paper and other conflicts of interest that might come up.