About

In general:  

•  To assume, within a knowledge community, the responsibility of building science as a collective heritage, contributing to the progress of that knowledge in the service of the humanization of our societies;
• To promote freedom of thought, independence, critical and creative spirit, scientific rigour, reliability and credibility of their work;
  
• To respect the diversity of values, opinions and preferences of the members of the scientific community, which is intended to be plural and united. 

As editors, those responsible for the journal understand that it is their duty: 

• To take responsibility for all published content;
• To ensure a peer review process according to the best international practices;
• To guarantee a high level of transparency at all stages of the peer review process, editing and publication;
• To guarantee the integrity of the Estudo Prévio archives;
  
• To correct eventual errors;
  
• To guarantee respect for these rules of Ethics, as well as publication practices. 

Regarding the authors, the editors of the Estudo Prévio believe that it is ethically and deontologically required: 

• To ensure that the information produced is verifiable, making explicit the possible uncertainties of its conclusions and distinguishing between consolidated results and hypotheses or speculations;
• To recognise the social responsibility of their activity, taking care of the impact of their publications or public positions, avoiding that their investigations unduly affect other people;
  
• To refuse falsification and manipulation of data that may intentionally distort reality and ensure privacy whenever the confidentiality of data is at stake;
  
• To refuse uncompromisingly any temptation to present as one’s own the results of the work of others, whether through literal plagiarism or through the undue appropriation of other people’s ideas, as well as to avoid quotations from other authors which, taken out of the contexts in which they were written, see their meaning distorted;
  
• To take special care with the authorship of disseminated texts, mentioning properly all the people who participated in the research, including students, whose authorization should be requested, who should not repeat their own ideas previously published without referencing them;
  
• To claim authorship of a text only when there is substantial participation in the work produced and ensure that the authors’ names appear in order of intellectual contribution to the research;
  
• Undertake not to submit the same text for scientific publication to more than one peer review publication;
  
• To respect people who are the subject of interviews, enquiries or polls, informing them about the objectives of the research;
  
• To respect the culture and the natural and social environment of the human groups involved in the research;
  
• To establish a transparent relationship with the funding institutions, clearly mentioning, without omission, the organisations that may have made the study possible or collaborated in it, respecting the agreements regarding the ownership of the results;
  
• Explicitly declare any conflict of interest, either in relation to the objects of study, or in reference to the funding entities, explaining circumstances that may affect the impartiality of their work. 

Regarding reviewers: 

• Strictly comply with all mechanisms of scientific arbitration (peer review);
  
• Guarantee the confidentiality of the process (blind referee);
  
• Demonstrate objectivity and constructive sense in the opinions expressed;
  
• Suggest any published work considered relevant that is not cited in the reviewed article;
  
• Respect established deadlines.