Ethical standards

The Human Rights Annual is ascribed to the Code of Conduct and Best Practice of the Committee on Publication Ethics (http://publicationethics.org/files/Code%20of%20Conduct_2.pdf) which provides, in summary:

A. Duties of the editor

1. Consider for publication the submitted manuscripts, basing the decision exclusively on the academic and scientific value thereof, and the fulfillment of the editorial rules.

2. Review the originality of the received works. In the case of the Human Rights Annual, this will be done with the support of the online software system Turnitin (http://www.turnitin.com/).

3. Carry out by trade or request to the author the necessary modifications to adapt the manuscript to the editorial rules.

4. In case of failure to accomplish with the editorial regulations, or suspicion of conflict of interest or academic fraud, the editor should reject the publication of the manuscript.

5. Send the accepted manuscripts for their review to the external evaluators, guaranteeing the anonymity and confidentiality of the text and its evaluation regarding third parties.

6. Perform ex officio or at the request of third parties, the corresponding measures to avoid or repair cases of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, double publication, or other types of academic fraud, as well as conflicts of interest. In case of conflict, the procedures recommended by COPE (Comitee on Publication Ethics) will be followed.

7. Carry out the clarifications, rectifications, amendments or the removal of necessary articles to solve the problems detected after the publication of a number of the journal. These will be informed on the website of the magazine.

8. Maintain constant communication with authors and external evaluators, clarifying doubts that appear in the process of review, evaluation and publication.

9. Receive and answer queries from third parties unrelated to the publication process.

B. Duties of external evaluators

1. The evaluators should accomplish an objective analysis of the manuscripts submitted for review. The evaluators should only accept the revision of those texts in respect of which they have sufficient competence, experience, and knowledge to be able to accomplish their analysis.

2. Evaluators should report potential conflicts of interest to the editor.

3. In case of not possessing the competences, experience or knowledge necessary to accomplish the evaluation, or in case of conflicts of interest, they should reject the revision of the manuscript.

4. Evaluators should maintain the confidentiality of the manuscript during the review process. They may not transmit in any way the contents of it, without the consent of the editor or the author of the manuscript.

5. The evaluators must inform in the term assigned by the editor of the observations regarding the manuscript, which must be founded, as well as the recommendation of publication.

C. Duties of the author

1. To be considered author of a manuscript, a person must have made significant contributions in the conception and/or draft of the research, in obtaining data and/or analysis and interpretation of them; in the drafting or revision of the manuscript, making relevant intellectual contributions to it and; have given their final approval to the version to be published. Those who make other types of contributions will not be considered authors, but collaborators, and should be mentioned in the section of acknowledgments of the text.

2. The authors must send original and unpublished manuscripts. Original is any text that has the exclusive authorship of the people listed as authors. All use of foreign material must be used with the authorization of its authors, or under the exceptions contemplated by the law of intellectual property, and the corresponding bibliographical references must be made, in the manner prescribed by the Human Rights Annual. Unpublished is any text that has not been previously published in Spanish, either in whole or in large fragments.

3. The authors can’t simultaneously send the manuscript to more than one academic journal.

4. The authors should not make any reference to identify them, as much in the length of the manuscript as in the metadata associated with it, in order to guarantee anonymity in the evaluation process by third parties.

5. The authors must make a declaration of conflicts of interest, if relevant.

6. The authors must accomplish the corrections requested by the editorial team and external evaluators.

7. The authors must declare their acceptance of the editorial and intellectual property regulations of the Human Rights Annual.

Liability clause

The opinions expressed in the articles published by the Human Rights Annual are the exclusive responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Human Rights Center of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile.