Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

International Journal of Supervision in Psychotherapy (IJSP) and the Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counselling and Clinical Supervision.

The International Journal of Supervision in Psychotherapy (IJSP) is published by The Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counselling and Clinical Supervision (IPCS) in collaboration with the Publishing House: Universul Academic, Bucharest. Thus, the IJSP editors, reviewers and authors are to follow the good-practice guidelines on ethical behaviour, referring to the following:

Editors are to:

• Prove editorial independence and fair play by evaluating manuscripts submitted on the basis of academic characteristics (originality, novelty, clarity, importance etc.) and on the basis of the journal scope;
• Respect the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, ethnic origin, religious belief, political beliefs and institutional affiliation;
• Make decisions and publish and edit materials received only on the policies of the journal;
• Respect the Editor-in-Chief authority over the entire editorial content of the journal and on the timing of publication for the manuscripts selected;
• Maintain confidentiality and not disclose any information on manuscripts submitted, other than the author, reviewer and editorial advisors if necessary;
• Restrain from using any unpublished information disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research purposes without the authors’ explicit written consent;
• Recuse from using manuscripts in any way that could become a conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships/connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions connected to the papers;
•   Make sure that all manuscripts submitted undergo peer-review, by at least two reviewers before being accepted;
• Editors and members of the IPCS will take any responsive measured needed when ethical concerns are underlined with to a submitted manuscript or published paper.

Reviewers are to:

• To assist editors in making editorial decisions and support authors in improving manuscripts;
• Be prompt and keep the deadline for reviewing a manuscript and send a report to notify the author and the editors on the manuscript;
• Treat each manuscript with confidentiality;
• Keep objectiveness and formulate clear observations when sending arguments to authors to improve a manuscript, not show criticism;
• Identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors;
• Notify the editors if an there is a similarity or an overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other manuscript (published or unpublished) identified;
• Notify editors if there is a conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions connected to the manuscript and the work described therein;
• Review manuscripts with accurateness, objectivity and comprehensiveness.

Authors are to:

• Present an accurate account of the work performed and the results,
• Be able to provide the raw data of their study together with the manuscript for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable;
• Be able to take responsibility for the entire content of the manuscript submitted, and if they have used the work and/or words of others, that it has been appropriately cited;
• Take into consideration that plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is not accepted by IJSP;
• Not send manuscripts submitted to this publisher, to other publication entities and if information from the manuscript is used in another one, then primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication
• Be listed as authors only if they are able to take public responsibility for the content, if they made significant contributions to the building, design, execution, data acquisition, or analysis/interpretation of the study, if they drafted the manuscript or revised it;
• Be listed as corresponding author and take responsibility for the entire communication with the reviewers and the editors;
• Disclose any conflicts of interest that might influence the results or their interpretation in the manuscript;
• Ensure that they have properly acknowledged the work of others and should not use information obtained from the review of other papers of from grant applications, unless they have obtained the explicit written permission of the author(s);
• Participate in the peer review process and cooperate fully by responding promptly to editors’ requests for raw data, clarifications, and proof of ethics approval, client/patient consents and copyright permissions.

Plagiarism Policy

1. The journal is strictly against any unethical act of copying or plagiarism in any form. Plagiarism is said to have occurred when large portions of a manuscript have been copied from existing previously published resources. All manuscripts submitted for publication to IJSP are cross-checked for plagiarism using Turnitin software.
2. Plagiarism is the unethical act of copying someone else’s prior ideas, processes, results or words without explicit acknowledgement of the original author and source. Self-plagiarism occurs when an author utilizes large part of his/her own previously published work without using appropriate references. This can range from getting the same manuscript published in multiple journals to modifying a previously published manuscript with some new data.
3. Manuscripts found to be plagiarized during initial stages of review are out-rightly rejected and not considered for publication in the journal. In case a manuscript is found to be plagiarized after publication, the Editor-in-Chief will conduct preliminary investigation, may be with the help of a suitable committee constituted for the purpose.
4. If the manuscript is found to be plagiarized beyond the acceptable limits, the journal will reject the publication of the manuscript.

Types of Plagiarism

The following types of plagiarism are considered by IJSP:

1. Full Plagiarism: Previously published content without any changes to the text, idea and grammar is considered as full plagiarism. It involves presenting exact text from a source as one’s own.
2. Partial Plagiarism: If content is a mixture from multiple different sources, where the author has extensively rephrased text, then it is known as partial plagiarism.
3. Self-Plagiarism: When an author reuses complete or portions of their pre-published research, then it is known as self-plagiarism. Complete self-plagiarism is a case when an author republishes their own previously published work in a new journal.

IJSP respects intellectual property and aims at protecting and promoting original work of its authors. Manuscripts containing plagiarized material are against the standards of quality, research and innovation. Hence, all authors submitting articles to IJSP are expected to abide ethical standards and abstain from plagiarism, in any form.

The manuscripts accepted to be published are stored using an internet achive.