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- Publication Languages
2. Open access policy and License
3. Originality
4. Authorship
5. Submitting a Paper
6. Durability of Publications
7. Competing Interest
8. Data Availability
9. Misconducts
10. Permissions & Approvals
11. Reader’s Responses/Comments
12. Confidentiality, Appeals & Complaints
13. Peer Review
14. Ethical Standards
Publication Languages
It is a goal of New Spring Journals to make an article impactful on people of different race and language. Therefore, New Spring Journals will accept and publish articles that are written in any of the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesian, and Japanese. However, the author should include a second title and abstract in English. New Spring Journals will translate non-English articles to English and publish it alongside the publication of the original language.
New Spring Journals publishes each article in two main languages;
1. The original language in which each article is submitted, and
2. An English translated version.
3. If the original language of the article is English, then Spanish becomes the second main language in which the article is translated and published.
It is the responsibility of New Spring Journals to later obtain other language translations of the article at its discretion, to publish it alongside the original publication, however, it is not a guaranty, even though we take it seriously. All the publication formats of an article will equally have their translated versions.
Open Access Policy & License
OPEN ACCESS
New Spring Journals is committed to the open access initiative, which allows the distribution of the scholarly contents of its website to anyone in the international community, without any form of restriction. All published articles, including all its publication formats, will be freely available online in two publication languages.
Creative Common Licenses
The publications of New Spring Journals are covered by the Creative Common Attribution (CC BY) License. This license permits anyone to reuse, distribute, transmit and reproduce the work, provided the original work and source is properly acknowledged and cited. It allows the author or author’s institution to be the copyright holder of the published work.
Originality
1. New Spring Journals will accept only original articles; the entire part or sizable parts of an article should not have been published before or be under consideration for publication in another journal.
2. New Spring Journals will check all submitted articles for plagiarism and will reject all defaulting articles. If parts of other works are used in the article, they must be cited in the article.
3. New Spring Journals will reject any submitted article that infringes on any copyright, if the problem cannot be resolved. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders, if they are reusing any copyrighted data from previous publications, and must reference the original source.
Authorship
New Spring Journals requires that all authors of an article should have earned authorship by one or more of the following criteria for authorship:
1. Has participated substantially in the conception of the study
2. Has participated substantially in drafting the article or in editing or translating the manuscript.
3. Has participated in developing or designing the methodology or in the creation of new models
4. Has participating substantially in conducting the research, performing the experiments or data collection.
5. Has participated substantially in the analysis or interpretation of data.
6. Has participated in providing for the study; materials, patients, reagents, samples, instrumentation, computing resources and other tools.
7. Has participated in managing, coordinating or supervising the planning and execution of the research.
8. Has participated in acquiring fund for the research project.
9. Has participated in software related duties of the research, such as programming, computer coding and algorithms, and more.
10. Has participated in verifying, reviewing the content of the article.
11. Has participated substantially in the audio and visual representation of the work.
Corresponding Author
When there is more than one author, New Spring Journals requires that a corresponding author takes the following responsibilities:
A. ensuring data correctness,
B. ensuring that every worthy contributor is included in the list of authors,
C. ensuring the final draft for publication is approved by all the authors,
D. handling all correspondences.
Change in Authorship
If there is need for change in the authorship; addition, deleting or rearrangement of the authors’ names, before or after publication, the corresponding author should send the editorial office of New Spring Journals an email requesting the needed changes and giving reasons for the changes in authorship. Potential authorship disputes should be carefully resolved by the authors or their institution. New Spring Journals will not be involved in settling such disputes.
Submitting a Paper
Authors are required to submit their manuscripts by filling our online submission form and attaching their manuscripts and any other relevant document. Authors are to ensure that they fill every required detail on the form and click the submit button at the bottom of the form. Authors will receive a confirmation message on the screen if the form has been successfully delivered.
Authors may also use the second option of sending the manuscript by downloading the submission formand filling it. Once the form is filled, the author is expected to send it to the email address (info@newspringjournals.org) along with the manuscript. Authors who complete the submission successfully will receive an acknowledgement mail from New Spring Journals within 24 Hours. Note, authors who do not receive this acknowledgement should contact our office after 24 hours to ensure their manuscripts are successfully submitted.
Durability of Publications
Articles and all its published formats become permanent contents after the article has been fully published online. Published contents cannot be removed or retracted except for substantial reasons that are subject to the discretion of New Spring Journals. However, New Spring Journals reserves the right to retract any published content due to plagiarism, scientific errors, and cases of misconduct.
All published articled will be archived on various online platforms to ensure continuous availability online.
Correction after publication
New Spring Journals is committed to ensuring that all published contents have good quality and maintain accurate scientific content. Therefore, authors are allowed to send a corrected copy of their published work, especially after little mistakes, scientific errors or other needs for improvement comes to the attention of the author or the editorial office of New Spring Journals, through the post-publication comments by readers, or after the e-conference presentation.
Except for very minor corrections, authors must introduce a new section to the corrected article called ‘post-publication corrections.’ This section should have a short summary of what the author has changed/corrected in the article. The author may also include new acknowledgements to the acknowledgement section for the contributors that led up to the improvement of the article.
Depending on the type and level of changes made to the published work, New Spring Journals may appropriate the changes on the original publication or publish a separate corrected version alongside the original publication.
Retraction after publication
New Spring Journals may retract published contents for major reasons, after adequate investigation has been employed. Such reasons include:
1. Scientific error that cannot be corrected, or that ruin the research presented in the paper. Including errors that are misleading and detrimental to the readers.
2. Clear cases of plagiarism
3. Duplicate publication
4. Data fabrication and falsification
5. Misconducts
6. Copyright violation
7. Bridge of local and international laws, or if legal actions places limitations on New Spring Journals or the authors.
8. If the publication sparks violence, disrupts peace or cause religious conflict.
9. If the article is defamatory, or infringes on the right of others.
The reason for retracting an article will be clearly stated in a retraction note. New Spring Journals will not retract an article so it can be published elsewhere. Whatever reason leads to the retraction of the article would mean a majority of the retracted content is not suitable for publication elsewhere.
Even if the content of the publication is retracted, some basic information about it article, such as the title, list of authors and affiliations, and the abstract may remain online on our website or in other scholarly indexes or on search engines. However, a retraction note will be attached on the article’s page on our website.
Editorial Notes
New Spring Journals may issue an editorial note for a publication, notifying the public of any potential problem or dispute that may surround a publication, but is yet to be resolved, while further investigation and solutions is sort, or if adequate evidence is not available to warrant a retraction.
Competing Interest
New Spring Journals requires that authors of an article, reviewers and the commenting readers, declare any competing interest. If they have no competing interest, they can indicate ‘No competing interest to declare.’ Authors are required to make a declaration in the competing interest section of the article.
Reviewers and article readers that comment will have a section in their forms to indicate if there is a competing interest or not.
Competing interest in financial or non-financial related reasons, the content of the article could be gainful or unprofitable to an individual or organization that is in a position to influence the content or outcome of the publication.
Data Availability
New Spring Journals requires that authors provide all the data used for the research, as well as adequate information about the software the data works it. The aim is to allow others access and use the data to replicate the study and conduct the same experiment successfully. However, we understand that there are special cases where data may not be accessible. If there are sufficient reasons why data cannot be available, the authors should inform our editorial office and give adequate description of the limitation and the requirements for the data to be requested and accessed by our editorial office, reviewers or the public.
It is important that all data underlying the result of the study should be discoverable, accessible and reusable.
Authors may deposit their data in a data repository (such as Zenodo, Protein Data Bank, etc.) that matches their type of data, and authors should cite it in the article using the data identifier provided by the repository such as the Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
If authors are submitting the data files directly to New Spring Journals, please follow these guidelines:
1. Each file should be given a short title that describes its content.
2. Provide additional legend that gives more description about the data.
3. Also number each data numerically and cite them in the text as you would do for a figure or table.
4. The dataset can be submitted to New Spring Journals as a Data article that will be published separately.
Include a Data Availability Statement in the article
Authors should include a statement revealing the availability of the data associated with the article. This is needful even when there is no associated data. You can include the following in this section:
1. Include the data availability statement: “No data is associated with this article,” if the articles has no associated data,
2. Please include the data availability statement, if all the associated data are presented in the article: “All data associated with the article are available as part of the article and no other source data is required,”
3. For articles deposited in a repository, please provide the name of the repository, the dataset number, the dataset title, and the dataset identifier or URL provided by the repository.
4. Each Dataset that has been cited in the article should be listed in the references.
5. When related, authors should provide adequate information about the software the data works it.
6. When data cannot be made available for sufficient reasons, the authors should describe the type of limitation surrounding the data availability and give the requirements for the data to be requested and accessed.
Misconducts
New Spring Journals recognises as misconduct, any action that infringes on its policies, especially the ethics policies. Such conducts includes: Plagiarism, Data fabrication or falsification, duplicate publication, unethical researches involving humans and animals.
New Spring Journals will handle cases of misconduct with proper investigation and care. New Spring Journals will consult the guidelines specified by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) on case by case basis.
Permissions & Approvals
PERMISSIONS, APPROVALS AND CONSENTS
Authors are responsible for getting permission from the copyright holders, when reusing a table, figure or data from a published work and should cite the original source underneath. Authors should obtain all required approvals for experiments involving humans, and those that may exist for experiments involving animals and plants. Obtaining consent from concerned individuals should precede using data that concerns them.
Authors should include a permission/consent statement where ever such data is used or cited; such as ‘This (data/table/figure etc.) has been (used/reused) after obtaining (permission/approval/consent) from the appropriate (individual/ organization/ institution).
Reader’s Responses/Comments
Readers and site visitors are free to comment on each publication, however, such comments should be honest, respectful and focused on the scientific content of the article. All comments are subject to moderation to ensure they are centred on and contribute to the scientific content of the publication. All comments must be written in good grammar; otherwise, may be rejected if it is difficult to understand. The reader’s full name and affiliation will be published alongside each comment that is approved.
New Spring Journals does not permit comments that are libellous or offensive. No negative comment of a personal, organization, ethnicity, race, or religious is welcomed and will not be condoled. Advertisements are not permitted. We will not accept abusive comments targeted at our authors or this organization. In such a case we may report such persons to their institution or take further measures.
Confidentiality, Appeals & Complaints
Confidentiality
All submitted works shall be kept confidential as it passes through the editorial process. Our editorial staff and reviewers are restricted from disclosing the content of each paper to anyone outside the editorial process.
Appeals and Complaints
Any appeal or complain by the authors or anyone in the public should directed to the editorial office of New Spring Journals. New Spring Journals will try to resolve them according to laid down procedures.
Peer Review
New Spring Journals operates a double-blind peer review process that ensures quality and timeliness. Two or more qualified reviewers will undertake the evaluation of each article and provide useful comments about the quality of the article, stating if they approve the article or highlighting areas that should be addressed or amended by the authors.
What should reviewers look out for?
1. If the article conveys useful scientific knowledge, and state the usefulness of the knowledge.
2. If the research and experiments have been properly conducted.
3. If the right research tools have been used, and suggest more appropriate or modern tools.
4. If the article has been properly written.
5. Should analyse the data presented by the authors; if they are correct, if they correlate with the research and have been properly deployed, and if sufficient data have been provided by the authors that justifies the conclusion of the article.
6. If relevant works have been cited.
7. The reviewer will also give the paper a general score.
How are Reviewers Selected?
The editorial office will source for reviewers from:
(1) A list of reviewers suggested by the authors,
(2) A list of registered persons who have enlisted to be reviewers.
Reviewers that are best qualified for the subject area of each article will be selected to review.
Duration of Peer-Review
We understand the tight schedule of many scholars and how this may prolong the time they can evaluate an article and submit a review comment. However, New Spring Journals has organized the review process to span about 10 days to 20 days; our target is 10 days. However, in some cases, we may extend this time limit to accommodate reviewers with a very tight schedule. If the paper requires more investigation, and more time, or if the reviewer has a tight schedule, the reviewer can request for an extension of the deadline.
In general, New Spring Journals targets qualified reviewers that are free enough to review the article within the targeted time and may offer remuneration to such reviewers to deliver honest reviews promptly.
Revision
New Spring Journals will send all the review comments received, to the corresponding author for revision.
Authors are expected to consider the suggestions and requirements from each reviewer and revise the article adequately for resubmission.
Authors are required to use an Authors response form that will be provided, to react to the comments of the reviewer and to indicate the changes that were made in the revision.
New Spring Journals requires authors to highlight all the changes made during the revision of the article and submit two copies of the revised article; one highlighting all the changes made, and the other copy having all the changes not highlighted, but incorporated.
Authors are expected to ensure their articles come out in its best quality. If additional data or experiment is needed, the authors should take their time to conduct such experiments and provide more data to substantiate their result and conclusion.
Ethical Standards
New Spring Journals operates and will abide with the ethical standards below; authors should note them and not default in any.
1. Plagiarism
This refers to a case where an author copies or reuses part or the entire work of another individual without proper reference to that individual. The copied work may include, but it not limited to figures, tables, data, text, sentences, or theories. New Spring Journals regards such conducts as unethical and will not condole it. Authors must reframe from such conducts.
2. Data fabrication and falsification
This refers to adapting or manipulating Data falsely, to concur to a desired result. This is mostly practiced by authors who want to publish without going through the required experiments or research. It also includes, but not limited to; altering results, manipulating images, and manipulating data figures. New Spring Journals regards such conducts as unethical; authors should reframe from them.
3. Duplicate Publication
New Spring Journals does not accept manuscripts that are already published elsewhere, or that is already available online. If the manuscript to be submitted contains data or other sizable parts of an already published article, the authors must clearly indicate the nature of the previous dissemination.
4. Simultaneous Submission
Authors should ensure that the manuscript they are submitting to New Spring Journals is not being considered for publication in another journal at the same time our editorial office will be considering it.
5. Improper Citations
Authors should cite only works that are relevant to the study. It is unethical to cite personal works and the works of others that are not relevant to the study.
6. Infringing on Research Regulatory Standards
There may be local or international laws and regulations guiding how a particular research is conducted. There are laws that govern the use of human subjects, animal subjects, plants, new devices, untested drugs, funds, biological, radioactive and chemical materials, etc. Authors must ensure such standards are followed, and all required permissions/approvals surrounding such researches are granted. Authors are to give a permission/consent statement confirming that the required approvals were obtained for the research.
7. Registration of Clinical Trials
New Spring Journals requires that clinical trials are registered in an approved registry and authors should include the registration number and date in the article.