Code of Ethics (Based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors)
Studies in Mycology is committed to ensuring ethics in publication and quality of articles (see Code of Conduct, Committee of Publication Ethics, COPE). This also applies to editors following rules relating to readers, authors, and reviewers, as well as procedures for handling complaints.
Studies in Mycology code of ethics
Editorial Board: Members are international experts in the field of mycology. The full details and affiliations are available on the journal’s web site.
Contact information: Editor-in-Chief, Robert A. Samson, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Uppsalalaan 8, Utrecht, Netherlands. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Authors and authors responsibilities
Authors are: 1) obliged to participate in the peer review process; 2) all authors should have significantly contributed to the research; 3) obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes; 4) must list references, financial support; 5) confirm that the work has not been submitted elsewhere for publication (irrespective of language), or does not present any conflict of interest.
Peer-review process
All papers are subjected to peer-review by at least two experts in the field. Peer-review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from experts in the field (the Managing Editor passes papers to the appropriate Scientific Editor, who sends them out for review, and sends the revised manuscript, if suitable, to the Editor-in-Chief for final decision over acceptance). Editors will be objective, and reviewers should not have any conflict of interest. All papers under review should be treated as confidential.
Publication ethics
The editorial board tries to prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has been detected. The board will deal with any allegation of research misconduct. Retractions are allowed, and errata will be published as needed. Any dispute concerning a manuscript with the Editor-in-Chief will be dealt with by the managing editor, in consultation with the editorial board following COPE guidelines.
Copyright and access
All articles are copyright of Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 85167, 3508 AD Utrecht, The Netherlands. All articles can be freely downloaded.
Studies in Mycology is licensed under a BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/).
Archiving
Studies in Mycology is a member of CrossRef, and all manuscripts have a unique Doi in the CrossRef system.
Ownership and publication
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Uppsalalaan 8, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Web site and schedule
The journal’s web site, including the text that it contains, demonstrates that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards. Three issues of Studies in Mycology (March, June and September) will be published annually.
Name
Studies in Mycology is a unique name and cannot be confused with that of another journal.
Editor responsibilities:
Editors will: acknowledge receipt of manuscripts in a timely manner, arrange fair and timely reviews, handle manuscripts confidentially and make the final decision concerning acceptance or rejection; respect the intellectual independence of authors; make known any conflicts of interest that might arise; where editors are authors of a manuscript, it should be passed to another editor for processing; not use work of others for their own research; not use referees which an author has requested to be excluded, and deal fairly with appeals against rejection of manuscripts.
Authors responsibilities:
Authors will: not breach copyright rules; obtain permission from the relevant publishers to publish previously published data or figures; give due recognition to published work via correct citation; inform the editor of related manuscripts under consideration for publication; provide copies of these related manuscripts, and of manuscripts cited as “in press”; ensure that the manuscript has not been submitted elsewhere simultaneously; remove all personal criticism of other scientists; give due acknowledgement to contributions; declare all sources of funding for the work.
Referees responsibilities:
Referees will: Treat manuscripts as confidential; destroy reviewed manuscripts; not review papers outside of their field of expertise; review manuscripts objectively and in a timely fashion; inform the editor of any conflict of interest; inform the editor of any similarity between the submitted manuscript and other published work; ensure that all materials remain confidential; not use submitted materials for their own research; alert the editor of plagiarized material in the manuscript; alert the editor of any conflicts of interest.
