Authors are compelled to deliver an exact and precise version of the results or relevant data of the investigations carried out. Likewise, the authors must declare that they have not incurred in scientific misconduct such as plagiarism, falsification, data arraying or duplication of publications.

It is the authors' obligation to reference or declare the origin of images, data and ideas that come from other authors or sources and that have been used.

Manuscripts must be submitted with a document signed by the authors (Letter of Intent), where it is declared that the manuscript is unpublished and that it has not been submitted to another journal.

The institution includes among its procedures the follow-up of international ethical standards that guarantee transparency in the publication process for all parties involved (authors, reviewers, editors) such as those of Cope (Commitee on Publications Ethics: International Standars for Editors and Authors) available at http://publicationethics.org/resources/international-standards-for-editors-and-authors and Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing available at (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines).

Additionally, by submitting a manuscript the authors agree to follow Helsinki-Ethical Principles (www.onlineethics.org), also agree to its publication and declare that all registered authors participated in the main aspects of the research, that the study is scientifically valid, that it has not been published before, and in the case of the scientific journal, that it has not been simultaneously submitted for submission in another journal.

Confidentiality pledge

The confidentiality commitment is a document that will be signed between the parties associated with any manuscript before its publication (institution, evaluator, proofreader, translator, diagrammer, printer or any other person who has access to the document before its publication) , where they undertake to safeguard the information and data contained in each manuscript.