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Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- I, corresponding author on behalf of all contributing authors, hereby declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper.*
- I have read the journal’s policies, and followed all instructions regarding authorship, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, copyright and permissions. *
- I confirm that the manuscript has not been submitted to or published in another journal.*
- I have made a significant contribution to the work reported (which could be in terms of research conception or design, data collection, analysis or interpretation).*
- I share responsibility and accountability for the content of the article.*
- I attest that the article is original and is our own work.*
- I adhered to ethical protocols and standards in research.*
- I declared any relevant conflicts of interest to the journal.*
- I obtained written permission to reuse any figures, tables, or data sets.*
- I confirmed that all authors have approved the paper before submission.*
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Copyright and Permissions
JECD is an open-access publication. The Publisher applies Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license to all published manuscripts. Prior to publication, authors provide a formal written Consent to Publish and Transfer of Copyright form. The signed Consent ensures that the University of Southern Mindanao ("the Publisher") has the Author's permission to publish the relevant Contribution. The signed Transfer entitles the Publisher on behalf of the Author to protect the Contribution against unauthorized use, and to authorize the Publisher to disseminate the Contribution by means of archiving in the JECD website database, offprints, legitimate photocopies, microform editions, reprints, translations, and secondary information sources such as abstracting and indexing services including databases.
The author warrants that the article is an original work not published elsewhere in whole or in part, except in abstract form, and that the author has full power to make this grant.
Policies on Data Sharing and Reproducibility
If the article has accompanying supplementary file/s, a subsection ‘Supplementary Information’ is added after the Conclusion, specifying the link where the data is available. This is a section of the manuscript where interested readers go to locate the data, whether to verify those claims written in the manuscript or to utilize the data for further research.
Authors are allowed to disseminate their work after publication, but they must acknowledge that it was initially published in JECD.
Journal’s Policy on Intellectual Property
JECD requires authors to make their article open access under the CC BY-NC-ND license in order to meet the terms of open access publication and ensure the widest possible dissemination. JECD authors are required to sign the Consent to Publish and Transfer of Copyright form prior to publication of their work.