Conflict of Interest

Confidentiality, Disclosure, and Conflicts of Interest

•       The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and the publisher, as appropriate.

•       The editor and any editorial staff must ensure that the information or ideas obtained through peer review will be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

•       Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author.

•       JCA may publish submissions from a guest editor in a special issue/section he/she has edited. In such cases, the guest editor is obliged to notify the editorial board before submitting a manuscript to an issue in which he/she is also a guest editor to ensure that there is no conflict of interest in its management and evaluation. Such submissions shall be handled completely independently of the guest-editor, by a member of the journal’s editorial board.