CNPQ: ethics and integrity in scientific practice

Articles submitted to Revista IBERC must comply with the guidelines of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPQ), removed from the website on September 16, 2018, which are listed below:

1. The author should always give credit to all sources that directly support his work.

2. The verbatim quotation of any other author must be enclosed in quotation marks.

3. When summarizing someone else's text, the author should try to reproduce the exact meaning of the ideas or facts presented by the original author, which should be cited.

4. When in doubt as to whether a concept or fact is common knowledge, appropriate citations should not be neglected.

5. When submitting a manuscript for publication that contains information, conclusions, or data that have already been significantly disseminated (eg, presented at a conference, posted on the Internet), the author must clearly indicate to editors and readers the existence of a prior disclosure. information.

6. If the results of a single complex study can be presented as a cohesive whole, it is unethical for them to be divided into individual manuscripts.

7. To avoid any characterization of self-plagiarism, the use of previous texts and works by the author himself should be marked, with the appropriate references and citations.

8. The author must ensure that each citation is correct and that each citation in the bibliography corresponds to a citation in the text of the manuscript. The author should also give credit to the authors who first reported the observation or idea being presented.

9. When describing the work of others, the author should not rely on a secondary summary of that work, which may lead to a faulty description of the cited work. Whenever possible, consult the original literature.

10. If an author needs to cite a secondary source (eg, a review) to describe the content of a primary source (eg, an empirical journal article), they must ensure that it is correct and always indicate the original source of the information. reported.

11. The intentional inclusion of references of questionable relevance to manipulate impact factors or increase the probability of acceptance of the manuscript is an ethically unacceptable practice.

12. When it is necessary to use information from another source, the author should write in such a way that it is clear to readers which ideas are his and which are from the sources consulted.

13. The author has an ethical responsibility to present evidence that contradicts his point of view, whenever it exists. Also, the evidence used to support your positions must be methodologically sound. When it is necessary to resort to studies that present methodological, statistical or other deficiencies, these defects must be clearly pointed out to the readers.

14. The author has an ethical obligation to report on all aspects of the study that may be important for the reproducibility of his research.

15. Any changes to the initial results obtained, such as elimination of discrepancies or the use of alternative statistical methods, should be clearly described together with a rational justification for the use of such procedures.

16. The inclusion of authors in the manuscript should be discussed before starting the collaboration and should be based on already established guidelines.

17. Only people who have made a significant contribution to the work deserve manuscript authorship. Significant contribution is understood to be the performance of experiments, participation in the preparation of the experimental planning, the analysis of the results or the preparation of the body of the manuscript. Lending material, obtaining funding, or general supervision, by themselves, does not justify the inclusion of new authors, who are to be thanked.

18. Collaboration between teachers and students must follow the same criteria. Supervisors must ensure that students with little or no contributions are not included in the authorship, nor exclude those who actually participated in the work. Ghostly authorship in science is ethically unacceptable.

19. All authors of a work are responsible for the veracity and suitability of the work, the first author and the corresponding author being the full responsibility and the other authors responsible for their individual contributions.

20. Authors should be able to describe, when requested, their personal contribution to the work.