Ethical standards

ETHICAL STANDARDS OF THE JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

A. ABOUT THE AUTHORS

We will understand by author, or authors, the one who is materially elaborated the original article, making a substantial collaboration to the work. The journal's direction attests to the originality and information provided by the authors, who have sole responsibility for the statements made to the journal's direction. Those who make other type of contributions to the elaboration of the articles will be collaborators, and they will have to be mentioned in the section of acknowledgments of the article.

Authors duties

1. Ensure that the submitted article is original, unpublished and contains significant contributions in the area of ​​research or innovation regarding Environmental Law.
2. Do not submit or have simultaneously submitted the same article to another journal for evaluation.
3. The authors, by virtue of publishing in the journal, accept the editorial and intellectual property regulations of the Journal of Environmental Law.
4. The authors must make the corrections requested by the editorial team of the Journal of Environmental Law, and do so within the period indicated.
5. The sources that the authors use in the article must be cited with precision and completeness, without incurring any type of plagiarism.
6. The authors must clearly inform, in the text of their article, the possible sources of funding for their work or the possible existence of conflicts of interest that could affect the impartiality of the research.
7. The authors will communicate with the journal through the electronic platform, and, when this is not possible, through the email revistacda@derecho.uchile.cl

B. ABOUT THE EDITORIAL TEAM

The editorial team is made up of the Director, the Deputy Director, the editors and the editing assistants.

It is understood by the Director, the natural person in charge of the Journal of Environmental Law, in charge of defining the strategic guidelines of the journal, ensuring its correct management, and supervising compliance with these ethical standards, in coordination with the editorial committee and the editing team.

Deputy director is understood as the natural person who subrogates the Director in case of absence or impossibility and who acts as an advisor to the management regarding the strategic and ethical decisions of the journal.

Editors are understood to be those natural persons, designated by the journal's management, responsible for receiving the articles and publishing the Journal of Environmental Law. For this, each semester the editorial team manages, selects, corrects style, edits and adjusts the journal to the established editorial standards.

Editing assistants are the assistants of the Environmental Law Center selected by the editors who meet the necessary conditions and training and who collaborate with the work of the editors.

Editor team general duties

The editorial team must comply with these ethical standards and contribute to the compliance of the others involved, especially ensuring the confidentiality and blindness of the evaluation process of the articles.

Editors specific duties

1. It is the duty of the editors to faithfully comply with the editorial processes of the journal arranged by the journal's direction and to propose to it the strategies and actions for the improvement of the general management processes of the journal and for the best compliance with these ethical standards.
2. In this framework, the editors will take special care of the processes in order to ensure anonymity and confidentiality regarding authors and evaluators. In the same way, the editors will promote the fulfillment of the ethical duties of authors and evaluators.
3. At the moment of receiving a manuscript in the platform of the journal, the editors must select considering the academic and scientific merit, respecting the rules for authors and the established deadlines.
4. Notify the authors if their articles have been selected or rejected. If selected, the author may be asked to normalize according to the editorial and citation rules of the journal.
5. Within the framework of their duties, any article in which there is a well-founded suspicion of conflict of interest or academic plagiarism, including practices of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, double publication, or other types of academic fraud, must be rejected. To determine academic plagiarism, the editors will use the digital platform for detection and prevention of plagiarism iThenticate.
6. Perform ex officio or ask the author for the necessary modifications to adapt the manuscript to the editorial rules.
7. Send accepted articles to double-blind evaluation of peers, guaranteeing anonymity and confidentiality both referring to who writes the text, and to those who evaluate it.
8. Inform the authors if the article has been accepted, accepted with improvements or rejected, according to the deadline established by the direction of the Journal of Environmental Law.
9. Maintain constant communication with authors and blind evaluators, clarifying doubts that arise in the process of review, evaluation and publication of articles.
10. Perform the clarifications, corrections, amendments or removal of necessary items to solve the problems detected after the publication of a number of the journal. These will be informed on the website of the journal.

C. ABOUT THE EXTERNAL EVALUATORS (PEERS/REVIEWERS)

It is understood by blind evaluator or peer evaluator (hereinafter evaluator) those natural persons, who evaluate the articles that the editor team selects according to the standards delivered by the journal, considering criteria of quality and academic originality . The peer evaluators of the Journal of Environmental Law will be the academic experts that the management of the journal considers pertinent according to the theme of the article.

Peer evaluators duties

1. The evaluators should only accept the revision of those texts respect of which they have sufficient competence, experience, and knowledge to be able to perform their analysis. In case of not having the competences, experience or knowledge necessary to perform the evaluation, or in case of conflicts of interest, they must reject the evaluation of the manuscript.
2. Evaluators should report potential conflicts of interest to the editor, at the time they are detected.
3. The evaluators must perform an objective analysis of the manuscripts submitted for review, and therefore they will not know the authorship of the article they evaluate.
4. Evaluators should maintain the confidentiality of the manuscript during the review process. They may not spread in any way the content of it.
5. However the recognition of their collaboration as an evaluator of one or more articles of the journal, the evaluators must keep confidential the fact of having evaluated a specific article, even after its publication.
6. The evaluators must inform in the deadline assigned by the direction and editorial team the observations and recommendations regarding the manuscript, which must be founded, and be contained in the evaluation format of the journal, accepting, accepting with improvements, or reject the submitted article. }

D. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCES

The Journal is grateful for the advice and recommendations of the Journal Coordination under the Research Department of the School of Law of the University of Chile, as well as the directors of the Journal of Pedagogy University and Didactics of Law and the Chilean Journal of Law and Technology. For the elaboration of the present norms, the following sources have been used: 

• HERNÁNDEZ, L. El rol de editor en las revistas científicas. En: Revista Venezolana de Gerencia (RVG). Año. 17. Nº 58, 2012, 203 – 205. Universidad del Zulia. ISSN 1315-9984 http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/290/29023348001.pdf.
• Revista Pedagogía Universitaria y Didáctica del Derecho (RPUDD)
• Revista Chilena de Derecho y Tecnología