The journal Vis Iuris attached to the Sergio Arboleda University based in the city of Santa Marta, through the following Manual of Good Editorial Practices and Ethics, aims to publicize all the procedures that must be followed to carry out a process editorial adequate.

Publishing team

The Editor in support of the Editorial Committee and the Reviewers, are responsible for selecting the articles published in Vis Iurisse, so they will take into account the quality, scope and relevance of the same at the time of giving a verdict. The above, will go through a series of requirements that the author must meet to be published in the magazine. Below are what are:

Reservation of the editorial process

The editorial team of Vis Iuris deals with absolute confidentiality the information contained in each of the manuscripts that are submitted to it. This reserve is maintained until the manuscript is published; therefore, prior to this, the reviewers of the manuscript in question can not fragment the document for their own benefit or that of third parties; however, they may request support from other experts in the field, although they will have to notify the editor beforehand, in order to authorize said practice.

Objectivity

The process of selection of manuscripts in the journal Vis Iuris is approached with total objectivity, so it promotes respect for the ideas expressed in the proposed works, which should be supported in practical process, theoretical or statistical writings; In the same way, the authors have the right to request a third verdict when they do not agree with the results of the evaluations, although with a proper explanation of the differences with the texts.

Costs

Vis Iuris journal assumes all costs related to the evaluation process, style review, layout, publication, printing and dissemination of all manuscripts that are approved for publication, so no member of the journal's editorial team will ask the authors some type of contribution. It is for this reason that it is necessary that the authors adhere to the guidelines related to the size of the manuscripts, as well as to the number of figures and tables that the authors' guide of the journal allows.

Arbitration process

The Editor, together with the Editorial Committee of the journal, will ensure that the review of the manuscripts is carried out by at least two expert experts in the field who will be of national or international origin (preferably outside the publishing institution), that this process has been fair and that the reviewers have respected what is stated in this manual and in the authors' guide of the journal. The process of peer review in Vis Iuris is double blind, that is, the author does not know who the reviewer is, and the latter does not know who the author is. When one of the manuscripts submitted to the journal presents a negative and a positive evaluation, the Editor will be the one who will settle the controversy, either by relying on the Editorial Committee or by sending the manuscript to a third reviewer.

The Editor and the Editorial Committee, prior to the evaluation process, will have to verify that the submitted manuscript is original and unpublished, through the use of anti-plagiarism tools such as Turnitin.

Duties and rights of the author
Although the Editor and the editorial Committee of the journal make a thorough review of each manuscript that enters, will not be responsible for the content expressed in these, so in case of any type of claim or conflict that presents some third, it will only be the author or the authors who will have to respond.

When a manuscript presents a conflict of interest, the journal will have no option but to withdraw it or suspend it from the process until the situation is resolved. In some cases it will be necessary for the authors to specify the supports received (financial, equipment, work personnel, in kind, etc.) from people or public or private institutions for the study, as well as the personal or institutional relationships that they can influence the driving, the results, the interpretation of them and the writing of the article. The above, should be indicated in the section that the journal reserves for this space, so we recommend reviewing the journal's authors guide. The authors will be responsible for obtaining the permissions that may take place when in their manuscript they will include an illustration, drawing, table, photographs or any other work that has been previously published; For this, you can request the journal the formats it has for each of the cases, which once completed will have to be sent to Vis Iuris, through email or any other means that the magazine requests.

The authors that appear in the first version of the manuscripts that are submitted to the journal must be the same ones that must appear when this is approved for publication, so the withdrawal or the inclusion of any author will not be accepted. However, in some cases and with strict justifications this last event will be authorized, for which the written consent of the authors that are to be included must be obtained, in the same way a signed declaration of the other authors of the article, mentioning in detail the contribution of each person during the process of preparation and completion of the investigation. People who in one way or another made contributions to the article, but who are not considered as authors of the same, may be named in the acknowledgments.

Irregularities

Vis Iuris through the Editor and with the support of the Editorial Committee, reserve the right to withdraw any manuscript that has been published or its defect to name it as Rejected; all this when it is verified that it has incurred in some involuntary error, fraud, bad practice, alteration of data, plagiarism, or any other situation that is considered as a breach of ethics as declared in the COPE. The objective of the above, is motivated by respect for the reader and the scientific community, which is worthy of quality content.

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Editorial CSIC (2016) Guía de buenas prácticas de las publicaciones periódicas y unitarias de la Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad. Madrid, España. Recuperado de: http://revistas.csic.es/public/guia_buenas_practicas_CSIC.pdf

The Canadian Center of Science and Education (2006) ethical Guidelines for Journal Publication. Canada: Ccsenet. Recuperado de: http://web.ccsenet.org/ethical-guidelines.html