The following ethical rules are important to guarantee high-quality scientific publications, trust in scientific findings, and authors receive proper recognition for their work.
Therefore, it is critical to avoid:
Data fabrication and/or falsification
This means that researcher(s) did not perform the experiments and presented faked data or changed obtained results.
Plagiarism
Taking the ideas and/or work of other scientists without fair citation, copying (even one sentence) from others articles or one of authors own previous work, without proper citation is considered plagiarism. J Agric & Environ Sci accepts up to 15% plagiarism.
Multiple submissions
It is unethical to submit the same manuscript to another journal at the same time. By doing this, the journal will stop the review process and contact the other journal to do the same. If the manuscript was published in another journal later publication will have to be retracted.
Redundant publications
Publishing similar manuscript based on the same experimental results might be of interest to a certain limit based on novelty of experimental design, obtained results, and contributing discussions.
Improper author contribution or attribution
All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved the submission.