Publication Ethics

Duties of Editors

Editors who have a significant conflict of interest connected with a paper will declare it to the other editors and will avoid participating in the decision process.

Members of the editorial team (associate editors, coordinating editors, and guest editors) may submit manuscripts for consideration, but only as second or third authors on a co-authored manuscript. All information about the processing of those manuscripts will be hidden from their view and they will have no part in the review and decision process.

Duties of Reviewers

We expect reviewers be objective and to provide reviews within a reasonable timeline. If a reviewer has a conflict of interest, or lacks the expertise to evaluate a manuscript with confidence, they should contact the editor and decline to review the paper.

Reviewers are expected to keep manuscripts submitted to EPAA/AAPE confidential. If the paper is rejected and the reviewer is asked to evaluate it for another journal, then the information that the paper has been rejected by EPAA/AAPE may be shared confidentially with the editorial team of the other journal.

We do not expect our reviewers to check the correctness of a paper down to the last detail. Publication in EPAA/AAPE should not be considered an absolute guarantee of correctness. Readers who discover important errors in EPAA/AAPE papers are strongly encouraged to report them to the journal. If we are made aware of an error, we will work with the authors to correct the error and republish the corrected version of the article.

Duties of Authors

Any papers submitted to EPAA/AAPE should be the authors' original, unpublished work. Any results that are not due to the authors should be clearly cited. Copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another paper without attribution is unacceptable (e.g., single text excerpts more than 400 words or a series of text excerpts more than 800 words, or more than three tables or figures), as is any other form of plagiarism. (see Sections 1.16 and 12.17 in the Publication Manual of the APA 7th ed. for more details).

Papers that have already been published elsewhere or are being considered for publication by another journal should not be submitted to EPAA/AAPE. As a general rule of thumb, a paper needs to be more than 60% different from the original (excluding references and tables) to be considered a new text.

Authors who discover important errors in their articles, whether published or under consideration for publication, should notify the lead editor or managing editor promptly.

Duties of the Publisher

EPAA/AAPE is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research and ensures accessibility to EPAA/AAPE publications. The publisher is responsible for upholding the ethical performance of duties for editors, reviewers, and authors. EPAA/AAPE is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)