Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

All parties in publishing – the publisher, editors, reviewers, and authors – must follow certain standards of ethical behavior. E-psychologie and its publisher, the Czech Moravian Psychological Society, endorse the COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers.

We only accept original articles not published or submitted for publication elsewhere (not even in a modified version). In case an article follows a previous publication, the older article must be properly cited and the author has to make clear what is new and how the submitted manuscript extends the previous publication. If there is not a significant addition to the conveyed knowledge, the manuscript will not be accepted in the review process.

Authors who wish to adapt their thesis or other school works and publish it in E-psychologie, are advised to carefully read all the instructions for authors and structure the manuscript by with them. They should especially mind the ethics in research (Informed consent from all the participants, approval of an institutional review board, citing their thesis, etc.), they should strive for a streamlined introduction with a clear statement of aims/hypotheses, extended findings, and thorough discussion.

1. Authorship
The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining approval from all the co-authors to submit the manuscript to E-psychologie. Only persons who have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the manuscript may be listed as co-authors. A substantive contribution includes one or more of the following: conceptualization; methodology; software; validation; formal analysis; investigation; resources; data curation; writing – original draft; writing – review & editing, visualization; supervision; project administration; funding acquisition.

The corresponding author is responsible for the data and their availability. Thus the data should be the result of the authors’ research, available without restrictions on public databases, or be officially provided to the authors by their owners. E-psychologie is unequivocally opposed to the falsification or biased modification of data and data representations.

The corresponding author is also responsible for the rights to publish images and other graphic representations that he/she submits as part of the manuscript for publication. Authors are requested to include only such figures, graphs, and other accompanying materials to which they have rights and are free to dispose of. If there are identifiable people in the images, their written permission to publish is required.

Authors of research, review, and methodological studies should take care of the reproducibility of their work when conducting the study and preparing the manuscript.

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

2. The Use of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies in Scientific Writing
Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (e.g. Large Language Models such as ChatGPT or Jasper) should only be used in the writing or editing process to improve the readability and language of the work. The authors need to carefully review and edit the AI outputs because AI can generate authoritative-sounding ones that can be incorrect, incomplete or biased. AI should not be used for generating original text, formulating scientific arguments, or interpreting results.

Authors should disclose in their manuscript the use of AI and AI-assisted technologies and a statement will appear in the published work. The statement must list the name, version, and source of the generative AI technology. Declaring the use of AI technologies supports transparency and trust between authors, readers, and reviewers, and facilitates compliance with the terms of use of the relevant tool or technology.

Authors should not list AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author.

3. Ethical Oversight
Ethical oversight should include but is not limited to, policies on consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, ethical conduct of research using animals, ethical conduct of research using human subjects, handling confidential data and ethical business/marketing practices.
Detailed information is in the Author Guidelines.

4. Intellectual Property
Authors certify that their submitted manuscript (and any supporting items) are their own intellectual property and the copyright has not been transferred to others.

Authors certify that the manuscript contains no plagiarism, no fabrication, no falsification, no manipulated citations, and that the manuscript conforms to JSS authorship policies.

Authors certify that for any copyrighted tables, figures, data, text, etc. permission has been obtained from the copyright holders to reproduce. All manuscripts, revisions, drafts, and galleys remain the intellectual property of the author(s). Author(s) fully retain the copyright to their work.

Authors retain the full right to modify, reshare, repost, or archive any version of their copyrighted work. Authors agree to keep confidential all communications, comments, or reports between authors and reviewers or editors.

5. Scientific Misconduct
Scientific Misconduct includes fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism by the authors. This includes fraudulent manipulation of data and photographs.

5.1 Plagiarism
Authors must not use materials from other sources (text, figures, images, tables) without permission and attribution, including their own published work. If authors include one or more sentences verbatim from another source, the source must be cited and the sentence(s) put in quotation marks to avoid plagiarism.

6. Post-publication Discussions, Corrections, and Retractions
E-psychologie allows debate post-publication through letters to the editor. E-psychologie has mechanisms for correcting, revising or retracting articles after publication. Changes to the published texts may be made after the approval of the authors and the change will be marked in the footnote of the article.

If scientific misconduct is discovered post-publication, the article will be retracted, and information on the retraction placed on the website instead of in its original place.

6.1 Ethical concerns
For any ethical concerns, please contact us at e.psyjournal@e-psycholog.eu.