Ethics and journal policies
Norland Educare Research Journal
The journal adheres to the principles of respect for the autonomy, privacy and dignity of individuals and communities; scientific integrity; social responsibility; and maximising benefit and minimising harm (BPS, 2018), as well as the guidelines for early childhood research issued by EECERA (2015) and for educational research issued by BERA (2018), and adheres to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethis (COPE) and the UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO). For further details, see:
- BPS (2021) Code of Human Research Ethics [bps.org.uk]
- BERA (2018) Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fourth edition [bera.ac.uk]
- EECERA (2015) Ethical Code for Early Childhood Researchers, revised version 1.2 [eecera.org]
- The Norland Research Ethics Handbook (2021)
- The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) [https://publicationethics.org]
- UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) [https://ukrio.org]
The journal expects author(s) to consider and discuss research ethics, demonstrating that the research was conducted in compliance with relevant laws and the guidelines of professional bodies. If applicable, the author(s) should also confirm that an appropriate institutional committee has approved the research. In addition, the author(s) should include a statement confirming that informed consent was obtained from participants and privacy and confidentiality rights were observed.
Duties of authors
Declaration of authorship and no conflict of interest
Authors should ensure that they have written and submit only original works. Authors are required to declare that the manuscript has not been submitted or published previously elsewhere, including under a different title, and must declare that there are no known conflicts of interest associated with the paper.
Duplicate publications
If a paper overlaps substantially with ones that they have already published or are preparing for publication, then authors must make a full statement which contains details of all previously published, submitted or in-preparation papers that might be regarded as having similar content. Copies of such material, including papers in press, may be requested to be included with the submitted paper to assist the editors in determining acceptance of the paper for review.
No conflict of interest
Authors must confirm in the published paper that there are no known conflicts of interest, financial or material, associated with this publication and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome or they need to draw the attention of the editor to facts which may be considered as potential conflicts of interest regarding the funding received, for example in determining the aims, the design of the study, methods of collecting and analysing data, and input in interpreting and reporting findings and conclusions.
The Declaration of Authorship and No Conflict of Interest Form (available to download at the bottom of this page) must be completed online, signed, dated, and saved as a PDF file. The form must be submitted along with the manuscript files.
Author declarations and acknowledgements in the manuscript
Acknowledgements
Authors must acknowledge in the published paper anyone who has contributed towards the article but does not meet the criteria of authorship, for example a person who acted in an advisory capacity; a person who provided sources of information or purely technical support, writing assistance, or proofreading services; or the head of a department who provided only general support.
Funding
Authors must declare in the published paper all sources of funding for the reported research, if applicable. They should indicate the role of the funding body, if any, in determining the aims, the design of the study, methods of collecting and analysing data, and input in interpreting and reporting findings and conclusions.
No conflict of interest
Authors must confirm in the published paper that there are no known conflicts of interest, financial or material, associated with this publication and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome.
Permission for copyright-protected materials
All sources used in a paper should be clearly cited. To use copyright-protected material (for example a reproduction of large amounts of previously published work or figures and diagrams from another paper), the author must obtain the written permission of the publisher or the author of such work and submit it with the manuscript.
Authors are responsible for evidencing the originality of their work and may be requested to submit a copy for verification by plagiarism-detection software such as Turnitin or iThenticate. Based on the plagiarism report, the editors may ask authors to edit their manuscript or the manuscript may be rejected.
Author and Norland Educare Research Journal Publication Agreement
Once the paper has been accepted and its final version has been submitted as per the journal’s information and guidance for authors, adhering to its policies, the Author and Norland Educare Research Journal Publication Agreement is signed by both the author/corresponding author and the Editor-in-Chief, in advance of the paper’s publication.
Rejection of manuscripts
Manuscripts that have been published by or submitted to other journals, that contain content that does not correspond to the scientific area of the journal or that do not conform to the instructions to authors will be rejected. In the event of rejection, the corresponding author will be informed with a note detailing the reason for the rejection, and any electronic copies of the paper will be deleted.
Significant errors in published work
When significant errors or inaccuracies are found in published work, it is the author’s obligation to either correct or retract the paper or provide evidence to the journal editors of the accuracy of the paper.
Appeals and complaints
Appeals and complaints are considered if the corresponding author provides sufficient justification in writing within 12 months of the publication date. Appeals and complaints are settled by the editorial board. Appeals and complaints must be emailed to [email protected]
Copyright and licence agreement policy
The Norland Educare Research Journal copyrights all online published papers (except otherwise agreed and noted) for the free use of readers, scientists and institutions, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licence, provided the original work is cited. For the use of journal content for commercial purposes, written permission from the editorial board is required.
Authors grant the Norland Educare Research Journal a licence to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors confirm that the Norland Educare Research Journal retains unconditionally and indefinitely all the copyrights to distribute the article published by the journal.
The Norland Educare Research Journal grants authors the right of the republication of their paper in any book in which they are the author, subject to (i) proper credit being given in the book to the original publication of the article by the Norland Educare Research Journal and (ii) the republication being at least 18 months after the original publication in the Norland Educare Research Journal.
Open access policy
The Norland Educare Research Journal publishes all accepted papers as open access without any charges to the author(s) for article submission, processing and publishing. The papers are available to anyone worldwide, free of charge.
The journal defines its open access policy according to the Budapest Open Access Initiative, aiming to promote open access to research for the wider benefit and advancement of society.
