COPE Guidelines

The Australian Journal of Biomedical Research adheres to the principles and best practices set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All submitted manuscripts are reviewed and processed in accordance with COPE’s international standards for integrity, authorship, conflict of interest, and ethical oversight. We encourage authors, reviewers, and editors to familiarize themselves with COPE’s guidelines, available at https://publicationethics.org.

Please read COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Guidelines from the following website: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines

or, browse the full COPE guidelines by choosing one of the sections below:

• Ethics toolkit for a successful editorial office
• Editing peer reviews
• Editorial board participation
• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
• Ensuring consent for publishing medical case reports
• Text recycling guidelines for editors
• A short guide to ethical editing for new editors
• Retraction guidelines
• How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers
• Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers
• Sharing of information among editors-in-chief regarding possible misconduct
• Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity and publication misconduct cases
• Guidance for Editors: research, audit and service evaluations