Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

NMST’s Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
We expect all parties commit to these publication ethics. We do not tolerate plagiarism or other unethical behavior and will remove any manuscript that does not meet these standards.
The relevant duties and expectations of authors, reviewers, and editors are set out below:

Author Responsibilities

• Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.
• Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
• Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
• Authors must notify us of any conflicts of interest.
• Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
• Authors must report any errors they discover in their manuscript.

Reviewer Responsibilities

• Reviewers must notify us of any conflicts of interest.
• Reviewers must keep information pertaining to the manuscript confidential.
• Reviewers must bring to the attention of the Editor-in-Chief any information that may be reason to reject publication of a manuscript.
• Reviewers must at any time evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
• Reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify us and excuse himself from the review process.

Editorial Board Responsibilities

• The Editorial Board must keep information pertaining to submitted manuscripts confidential.
• The Editorial Board must disclose any conflicts of interest.
• The Editorial Board must evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content.
• The Editorial Board is responsible for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts.