PUBLICATIONS ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT
Chinese Internal Combustion Engine Engineering(CICEE, ISSN 1000-0925, CN 31-1255/TK) is dedicated to following best practices and preventing malpractice on publication ethics. CICEE does not tolerate any kind of unethical behaviors.
The following duties outlined for authors, editors, and reviewers are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct which are widely recognized in the world.
DUTIES OF AUTHORS
Originality: Authors must ensure that the article is original. CICEE does not tolerate plagiarism in any form.
Exclusive Publication: Authors should warrant that their article has neither been published elsewhere in any language fully or partly, nor is it under review for publication anywhere. It is also expected that the author will not publish redundant articles or articles describing same research in more than one journal.
Acknowledgement of Sources: Authors should acknowledge all sources of data used in the research and cite publications that have been influential in research work.
Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported study. Others who have made significant contribution must be listed as co-authors. Authors must also ensure that all the authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the article and their inclusion of names as co-authors.
Disclosure of Financial Support: Authors must ensure sources of financial support, if any, is disclosed.
Fundamental Errors in Published Works: If at any point of time, author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in submitted article, he or she must report the error or inaccuracy to the editor.
Revisions: Authors should agree to make plausible revisions suggested by reviewers and the editorial board. If the author refuses to do the revision without acceptable causes, the submitted article will be immediately rejected.
DUTIES OF EDITOR
Confidentiality: Editors must ensure that information regarding articles submitted by the authors is kept confidential. And editors must ensure that anonymity of reviewers, the author as well as the research funding authority is kept confidential during the review process.
Review of Articles: Editors must ensure that each article is initially evaluated for originality before it is forwarded to two reviewers for double-blind peer review.
Objectivity: Editors must ensure that each article received by CICEE is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc. of the authors.
Disclosure: Editors should not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted article for their own research without written consent of the author.
Publication Decisions: Editors can accept, reject, or request modifications to the article based on the review report of the editorial board.
DUTIES OF REVIEWERS
Confidentiality: Reviewers must ensure that information regarding articles submitted by the editor is kept confidential.
Objectivity: Reviewers should make a recommendation to accept, reject, or modify the article objectively and should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research and cite publications that have been influential in research work. Any kind of similarity or overlap between the articles under consideration or with any other published paper of which reviewer has personal knowledge must be immediately brought to the editor's notice.
Disclosure: Reviewers should not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted article for their own research without written consent of the author.
Conflicts of Interest: Reviewers should not have any conflict of interest with the research of a submitted article. In case of a conflicting interest, the reviewer should inform the editor.
Promptness: The review period will be up to 15 days. Reviewers must inform the editor if they feel it is not possible for them to complete the review within stipulated time.