Responsibilities

Authors' responsibilities

Authors submit their manuscripts to Pesticidi i fitomedicina (Pesticides and Phytomedicine) within the SCIndeks Assistant portal for online journal editing at http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/pif/

Authors warrant that their manuscripts are their original works, that they have not been published before, and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Parallel submission of the same paper to another journal constitutes a misconduct and eliminates the manuscript from further consideration.

A submitted manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references to permit reviewers and, subsequently, readers to verify the claims presented in it. Deliberate presentation of false claims is a violation of ethical standards.

Authors are exclusively responsible for the contents of their submissions. Authors affirm that their article contains no unfounded or unlawful statements and does not violate the rights of third parties. The Publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Authors must make sure that their author team listed in the manuscript includes all and only those authors who have significantly contributed to the submitted manuscript. The Editorial Staff will consider as correct the authorship and affiliation details provided in the textual file in case conflicting data appear on the Assistant metadata page.

 If persons other than authors were involved in important aspects of the research project and manuscript preparation, their contribution should be acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section.

It is the responsibility of the authors to specify the title and code label of the research project within which the work was created, as well as the full title of the funding institution.

It is the responsibility of each author to ensure that the paper is written with ethical standards in mind (e.g. by observing the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora or requesting authorization from relevant ethical committees).

Authors are required to properly cite sources that have significantly influenced their research and their manuscript. Parts of the manuscript, including text, equations, graphics and tables that are taken verbatim from other works must be clearly marked and referenced.

Full references of each quotation (in-text citation) must be listed in the separate References section in a uniform manner, according to the APA citation style used by the journal. The References section should list only the cited, and not all sources used for the preparation of a manuscript.
Authors wishing to include figures, tables or other materials that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright holder(s). Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

When authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, it is their obligation to promptly notify the Editor-in-Chief (or publisher) and cooperate with him/her to retract or correct the paper.

Authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might have influenced the presented results or their interpretation.

The corresponding author must make sure that all involved parties have given permission to make the data public.

By submitting a manuscript the authors agree to abide by the Editorial Policy of Pesticidi i fitomedicina (Pesticides and Phytomedicine).

Editorial responsibilities

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to Pesticidi i fitomedicina (Pesticides and Phytomedicine) will be published. The decisions are based exclusively on the manuscript's merit. They must be free from any racial, gender, sexual, religious, ethnic, or political bias. When making decisions the Editor-in-Chief is also guided by the editorial policy and legal provisions relating to libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.

The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to decide not to publish submitted manuscripts if they do not meet relevant standards concerning the content and formal aspects. The Editorial Staff will inform the corresponding author whether the manuscript is accepted for publication within a reasonable time period after the end of a peer review procedure.

The Editor-in-Chief, as well as Section Editors, must hold no conflict of interest with regard to the articles they consider for publication. If an Editor feels that there is likely to be a perception of a conflict of interest in relation to his/her handling of a submission, the selection of reviewers and all decisions on the manuscript shall be made by another editor or a member of the Editorial Board holding no such conflict.

The information and ideas presented in submitted manuscripts shall be kept confidential. Information and ideas contained in unpublished materials must not be used for personal research or gain without written consent of the authors.

The Editors and the Editorial Staff shall take all reasonable measures to ensure that the reviewers remain anonymous to the authors before, during and after the evaluation process and the authors remain anonymous to reviewers until the end of the review procedure.
The Editors are obliged to assist reviewers with additional information on the manuscript, including the results of checking manuscript for plagiarism.

Reviewers' responsibilities

Reviewers are required to provide written, competent and unbiased assessment of the scholarly merits and scientific value of manuscripts. The reviewers assess manuscripts for their compliance with the journal profile, the relevance of the investigated topic and applied methods, the originality and scientific relevance of information presented in the manuscript, the presentation style and scholarly apparatus.The review must be fully objective, clear and substantiated with arguments.

The reviewer must not be in a conflict of interest with the authors or funders of research. If such a conflict should come to the knowledge of a reviewer, he/she would be obliged to promptly notify the Editor-in-Chief.

The reviewer shall not accept for reviewing papers beyond the field of his/her full competence.

Reviewers should alert the Editor-in-Chief to any well-founded suspicion or knowledge of possible violations of ethical standards by authors.

Reviewers should recognize relevant published works that have not been considered in the manuscript. They may recommend specific references for citation, but shall not require citation of papers published in Pesticidi i fitomedicina (Pesticides and Phytomedicine), or their own papers, unless it is fully justified. They should alert the Editor to substantial similarities between a reviewed manuscript and any manuscript published or under consideration for publication elsewhere, in the event they are aware of such. Reviewers should also alert the Editor to a parallel submission of the same paper to another journal, in the event they are aware of such.

The reviewers are expected to improve the quality of manuscripts by making suggestions to the authors. If they recommend corrections of the manuscript prior to publication, they are obliged to specify the manner in which this can be achieved.

All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Reviewers must not use unpublished materials disclosed in submitted manuscripts for their own research without express written consent of the authors. The information and ideas presented in submitted manuscripts shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain.

Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to evaluate the research reported in a manuscript, or knows that its prompt review will be impossible, should notify the Editor without delay.

Reviews must be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

The review has a standard format. It is submitted through the online journal management system where it is stored permanently.