To all participants in publishing, including authors, journal editors, peer reviewers, teams and publishers, it is imperative that they agree on a code of ethical conduct in their work. The publication moral claim of Machine Tool & Hydraulics journal is based on the code of conduct standard of Committee on Publication Ethics(COPE), the query URL is www.publicationethics.org.
Publication judgment and liability
The journal editor is responsible for deciding which papers to publish in the journal. In addition, for all the publication, editors need to make these decisions based on the policies of the newsroom or publishers, along with other principles, such as libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. Editors can communicate with other editors and peer reviewers on publishing decisions. Editors need to maintain the reality and integrity of academic records, not compromise academic content and ethics in order to meet commercial needs, and issue corrections, clarifications, retracts and apologies when necessary.
Fair treatment
Editors should be fair and impartial in judging the content of papers and should not be biased by any other factors, such as author's race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, origin, nationality and political ideology.
Confidentiality
The editor and other staff of the editorial department shall keep the paper confidentiality and shall not disclose the information of the paper submitted to anyone other than corresponding author, reviewer, recommended reviewer, other editorial consultants and publisher, as the case may be.
Information disclosure, interest conflicts and other issues
When papers published in Machine Tool & Hydraulics journal that involve retractions due to presentation issues or corrections, editors should follow COPE's guidelines for retractions.
Content that has been submitted but not yet published may not be used in edited personal research without the author's express written consent. Privileged information obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and cannot be used for personal gain.
In making editorial decisions, the editor shall not be affected by any advertising, reprint, or other commercial gain.
Editors seek a fair and reasonable process of peer review. When there is interest conflict between the editor and the authors or his company due to competition, collaboration and other factors, the editor should avoid the paper operation and should consult the co-editor, deputy editor or other members of the editorial department instead of reviewing or considering the paper by himself. The editor should require contributors to disclose all relevant conflict of interest information in advance. If the information is not disclosed in advance, and a conflict of interest occurs after publication, an amendment should be issued. When necessary, other appropriate measures may be taken, such as retraction or further attention.
Responsibilities of Reviewers
Assist in editing and adjudicating papers
Peer review can help editors make decisions, and by communicating with writers, it can help writers improve their work.
Timeliness
Any invited reviewer who feels incompetent to review the paper, or knows that he cannot complete the review within the agreed time, should inform editor immediately so that editor can contact new reviewer.
Confidentiality
Any paper received by the reviewer must be treated as confidential file and must not be shown or discussed to others without the permission of the editor.
Objective standard
The reviewer needs to review papers objectively. Personal criticism to author is not allowed. The reviewer needs to be supported by appropriate evidence to express an opinion.
Sources confirm
Reviewer needs to identify relevant content that appears in a published paper but not cited by author. Any previously published observations, derived conclusions or arguments should be presented in the context with a reasonable citation form. Reviewer needs to draw the editor's attention to any similarity or overlap with published data.
Information disclosure and interest conflicts
Privileged information from peer review is confidential and cannot be used for personal gain. When reviewer has interest conflicts with author or his/her company due to competition, collaboration and other factors, the reviewer shall not participate in the work of reviewing the paper.
Duties of Author
Reporting standards
In addition to accurately presenting the work done, author should objectively discuss the original research significance. The paper needs to accurately describe the underlying data. A paper should include sufficient detail and citations so that others can replicate the research. Deceptive or intentional reporting of falsehoods constitutes immoral publication and is not acceptable.
Originality and plagiarism
Authors must ensure that the content they write is original, and if they cite research and/or related statements of other authors, they should use appropriate citations or quotations.
Duplicate publication
Authors may not publish papers from the same research in multiple journals. The same paper submitted to different journals is considered immoral and not acceptable.
Sources confirm
Other people's research, information sources must be provided in the paper. When quoting published papers, authors should quote some influential works, so as to improve the paper quality.
Writer
The author's definition is limited to those who have contributed to the concept, design, implementation or interpretation of the research content. All contributors need to be listed as co-authors. Any participant in any aspect of the study should be nominated in the thanks section. Corresponding authors should ensure that any co-authors who meet the above criteria are included in the authors list of the paper, and all coauthors have seen the final version of the paper and agreed to contribute. All co-authors' information must be clearly stated when submitting their work. After receiving the paper, if any co-authored information needs to be added, the editor's approval is required.
Information disclosure and interest conflicts
Authors are required to disclose all financial information and interest conflicts that may affect the outcome and interpretation. All funding sources for relevant projects must be disclosed.
Basic errors in published articles
If an author discovers obvious errors or inaccuracies in a published paper, the author is obliged to inform the editor or publisher immediately and assist them in retracting the paper or in publishing a correction statement or corrigendum.
Responsibilities of the Publisher
The autonomy of editors
Machine Tool & Hydraulics journal works with editors to clearly define the roles of publisher and editor, thus ensuring autonomy in editorial decisions, independent of advertising and other business partners.
Intellectual property and copyright
We protect the intellectual property and copyright of Machine Tool & Hydraulics journal by publicizing and maintaining the publication version of each paper, including its version, authors and publishing partner. Machine Tool & Hydraulics journal guarantees the integrity and transparency of each paper in the following aspects: interest conflicts, publication research funding, publication research ethics, publication research misconduct cases, confidentiality, authorship, paper corrections, clarifications and retractions, timely publication.
Academic misconduct
In the event of alleged or proven academic misconduct, fraudulent publication, plagiarism, or close collaboration with editor, all appropriate measures shall be taken to clarify and amend the papers in question. Measures include publicity and publication correction statements or corrigendum, and in more serious cases, retraction of affected papers.
Paper Online Accessibility
All papers in Machine Tool & Hydraulics journal?can be downloaded from https://www.cnki.net/.