ORIGINALITY 

Only original, previously unpublished manuscripts should be considered for publication. Any manuscript that has a pre-publication posting online by another publisher or has already been formally published cannot be considered. Also, materials posted openly online in databases such as ResearchGate, SSRN, arXiv, etc. should not be considered until they have been removed from those respective sites.  The selected articles can be re-posted to the mentioned online databases after publication per IABS Fair use policy.

IABS Publishing abides by international copyright law, and as such all contributors of traditionally published journals (published behind a paywall) are asked to agree to the Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) prior to publication. IABS Publishing considers the acceptance of the CTA at submittal as an electronic signature and agreement with the CTA.  

Plagiarism and Self Plagiarism Concerns 

IABS Publishing defines plagiarism as the intentional or unintentional use of another individuals, or collection of individuals’, ideas, theories, models, equations, conclusions, research (intellectual property), and/or verbatim or paraphrased words without proper attribution to the original source. Any submitted work that is found to be plagiarized will not be considered for publication.