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EDITORIAL POLICIES

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF AUTHORS

All authors of a manuscript must have agreed to its submission and are responsible for the whole content presented in it.

All authors must agree that the corresponding author has the authority to act on their behalf in all the matters regarding publication.

All authors must agree to the order of authorship in manuscript.

The manuscript send to Journal of Advances in Developmental Research for consideration must not be published previously in a journal or seminar proceedings or submitted for publication elsewhere.

The manuscript should contain original research with sufficient detail of methodology and references to permit others to replicate the work.

The manuscript should report actual data obtained by authors themselves and not copied from previously published paper of authors themselves or others.

Help received during experimentation and manuscript preparation should be acknowledged properly.

Authorship should be limited to the persons made a significant contribution to the conception, experimentation and interpretation of the results.

Manuscript should contain current address of all the authors for correspondence along with their email addresses.

Manuscripts should be thoroughly checked by all the authors before submission.

If the subjects of study are animals and/or humans then it is essential to submit a signed declaration statement along with the manuscript indicating that all the relevant laws and institutional guidelines have been followed about ethical standards of the country/countries where the research described in the article has been conducted. Sex and other characteristics of animals should be described in detail.

Any financial assistance received from funding agencies for conducting the experiment should be acknowledged along with its reference number, if any.

If any author finds a mistake in manuscript after its publication then he/she should contact immediately with journal’s office at pshilpkar@yahoo.com and cooperate to correct it. If the publisher learns from third party about any error in published paper then the authors will be responsible for answering the queries.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

To obtain written and signed permission from the original author and publisher both to reproduce any data, figure, graphs, or text (in whole or in part) from previous publications (including authors own work) and send them along with the manuscript.

To communicate with publisher of Journal of Advances in Developmental Research on behalf of all the authors.

To ensure that the authorship includes all appropriate persons and no inappropriate person is being included in this list.

To provide correct mailing and email address of all the authors.

To communicate with publisher of Journal of Advances in Developmental Research if any change is made in mailing addresses of any author.

To answer the queries of reviewers.

To communicate all the messages received from publisher about manuscript to all the authors.

To send signed cover letter available at (http://www.journal-advances-developmental-research.com/cover-letter/) along with the manuscript submitted for publication. Failure to this the manuscript will not be accessed.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF EDITORAIL BOARD MEMBERS

To decide which articles should be published in a particular issue.

To suggest publisher any change needed in design, look, format and printing of journal (print form) and about web contents (electronic form) to make them more attractive and informative.

To evaluate the manuscript if asked by publisher.

To guide the publisher if any ethical issue has been raised.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF REVIEWERS

To evaluate the manuscript critically for its content, presentation, grammatical mistakes, technicality, novelty etc. and make comments on manuscript in such a language that will not affecting the honor and dignity of authors.

To evaluate the manuscript without any bias regarding institution, authors, race, sex, religion, gender, citizenship or political and social philosophy.

To evaluate the manuscript timely without unnecessary delay.

Do not communicate with author or any other person, except publisher, regarding the matter of manuscript asked for evaluation.

To draw attention of publisher about any similarity of results presented in manuscript received with that of any published paper to avoid duplicity.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF JOURNAL’S OFFICE

To check the manuscript received for its suitability and formatting.

Especially check the referencing style and list of references.

If the manuscript is not as per the format of Journal of Advances in Developmental Research (please visit http://www.journal-advances-developmental-research.com/information-for-contributors/ for more information on format of articles), then send it back to corresponding author for necessary corrections.

To communicate with reviewers, editors, corresponding authors and others as per the instruction of publisher.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF PUBLISHER

To look after all the matters of publication starting from receiving the manuscript, finding its suitability, reviewing, correspondence with reviewers and corresponding author and finally its publication (in print as well as electronic forms).

To solve all types of queries related to any matter of journal after making thorough discussion with Editorial board Members and other experts.

To lookout the official, financial and promotional matters.

In case of any conflict regarding any matter of journal, the decision of publisher will be treated as final and granted to all.

MISTAKE FOUND IN PUBLISHED ARTICLE

Authors are responsible for any mistake found in published paper and they have to answer these queries. If the mistakes are very serious and authors failed to answer them then serious action may be taken against them including withdrawal of their manuscript from online publication.

PLAGIARISM

Authors can not use any sentences, paragraphs, tables, figures, graphs, photos, sketch, images etc. published elsewhere (by authors or others) and are copyrighted without written and signed permission from the concerned person (even if the original work is cited in references).

FABRICATION, MANIPULATION AND FALSIFICATION OF DATA

Any fabrication (making up data theoretically) and fabrication (manipulating research materials, equipments or software to get desired data) will be treated as misconduct by publisher and appropriate action will be taken against such authors.

COPYRIGHT

The articles published in Journal of Advances in Developmental Research will be treated as property of the journal and no person can use them as such without prior written and signed permission of the publisher.

RIGHTS OF AUTHOR

To make multiple copies (print or electronic) of published article for personal use in teaching and/or research.

To present the published article in conference/seminar and to distribute its copies to delegates.

Patent and trademark rights.

To include the published work in his/her own thesis/dissertation, lecture notes and also in bio-data.

CHANGE IN AUTHORSHIP OR ITS ORDER

Addition or deletion of names of authors and corresponding author or making change in order of authorship or in corresponding author, after submission of the manuscript will be implemented only after receiving the signed statement of the matter from all parties involved. However the decision of the publisher would be treated as final in this regard.

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

The acceptance letter would be send to corresponding author only.

SUGGESSTION OF REFEREE

Authors are welcomed to suggest two names of potential independent reviewers for evaluation of their manuscript but here also the publisher is not bound to send the manuscript to these reviewers.

CONFIDIENTIALITY

All details regarding the submitted manuscript and editor’s decision on it will be kept confidential and do not communicate to any outside organization or persons except corresponding author.

WARRANTIES AND EXCLUSIONS

We hereby declare that the publisher and team of Journal of Advances in Developmental Research are not responsible for any damage to researcher received following the methodology or data presented in the articles published in the journal. All articles published in Journal of Advances in Developmental Research are deemed to reflect the individual views of authors and not the official views of either publisher or other person associated with journal.

STEPS AGAINST MISCONDUCT

Failure to comply with the policies described above would be taken seriously and all the necessary steps will be taken against authors including suspension from publishing with Journal of Advances in Developmental Research and/or written notification to the person’s host institutions. Further, the misconduct would be marked on each page of published PDF file of article.

PEER REVIEW POLICIES

GENERAL INFORMATION

Research papers, review articles and general articles are being peer-reviewed by Journal of Advances in Developmental Research. For publications articles should be emailed to pshilpkar@yahoo.com; dshilpkar@journal-advances-developmental-research.com; or shilpkarprateek@gmail.com.

CRITERIA FOR PUBLICATION

Articles fulfilling following broad criteria are being published-

1. It should reflect outcomes which are helpful in overall development of society.

2. It should contain original research supported by well established facts or previous studies.

3. It should contain well organized constructive objectives and detailed methodology of experimentation.

4. It should be interesting tor researchers of other related disciplines.

THE REVIEW PROCESS

All the submitted articles, along with the signed cover letter, are checked initially by publisher for their suitability and formatting. Authors may be asked for necessary corrections in format of articles if it is not as per the journal format. The corrected manuscript is now being sent to reviewers selected by publisher. The comments of reviewer are first seen by publisher tor remove any offensive language and comments that reveal confidential information about other matters. Now these comments are sent to the corresponding author to incorporate the comments in manuscript. If corresponding author is not agreed upon some suggestions of reviewer then he/she has to give strong reason for it. The amended manuscript is sent back to the same reviewer and after receiving the positive comments from reviewer the manuscript is being considered as accepted for publication. The corresponding author is informed about acceptance and now it will be published in next available issue of the journal.

The manuscript may be accepted as such; accepted after minor corrections suggested by reviewers; and rejected.

PROOFS

Before final publication a PDF file of proof is being sent to corresponding author for final checking. If the author found any mistake then these mistakes should be written in a separate word file indicating their locations (page number, paragraph number, line number) and correct words. This word file should send back along with the proof to journal’s office within 72 hours. After publication a PDF file of published article is being sent to corresponding author and it is the duty of corresponding author to distribute it among other authors.