Editorial Policies

Analecta's editorial team is committed to practicing and ensuring ethical behavior throughout the editing process.
Below are highlights of the journal's ethical commitment, which emerge from the “Code of Conduct and Good Practices” published by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE).

Publishing entity
- Commits to protect the publication's intellectual property and copyright.
- Will ensure an objective, fair and in-depth review of texts based on peer review.
- It undertakes to deal with complaints or misunderstandings of an ethical nature or conflict of interest and to follow the appropriate procedures to resolve them, in accordance with the regulations established by the National University of La Plata.

Directors
- They undertake to continually improve the publication, guarantee the quality of the material, defend freedom of expression, prevent commercial interests from compromising moral standards and publish errata, clarifications, retractions or apologies.
- Promote the opinion of authors, readers, reviewers and advisors on how to improve the journal's processes.
- They will accept or reject an article based on the importance, originality, clarity of the text and the theme of the journal.
- Publish guidelines/standards/guidelines on everything expected of authors and reviewers. These guidelines will be updated regularly.
- They will ensure that the identity of reviewers and authors is protected.
- They will provide editorial board members with guidance on what is expected of them.

Publishers
- They will carry out their editorial tasks in an objective, fair and balanced manner.
- Adopt the necessary measures to prevent fraudulent publications.
- They will maintain the anonymity of authors and reviewers during the evaluation of texts to preserve the intellectual integrity of the entire process.
- They undertake to enforce the deadlines for reviewing and publishing their work.

Reviewers
- They undertake to carry out an honest, critical and objective review.
- They will evaluate the works in the shortest possible time to respect the delivery deadlines.
- They will deliver a report detailing the observations on the points of the article to be evaluated that the direction of the journal requested.
- Under no circumstances will they keep or copy the work.

Authors
- They undertake not to send the article to another journal and will guarantee that the work is original and unpublished.
- They will be responsible for the opinions, statements or conclusions they formulate in their texts.
- They undertake to use images whose rights have been assigned or whose authors have authorized their publication. They will mention the author of the image (be it a person, a group, an institution or a medium).
- If archival materials are used (letters, images, etc.), the author undertakes to mention the original data of the piece or work and the place where it is archived or exhibited.
- They undertake to make the changes or corrections requested by the reviewers.

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ANTI-PLAGIARISM POLICY

Analecta vet maintains an anti-plagiarism policy that aims to ensure that all published works are original and unpublished.

To this end, and due to the limitations of automatic plagiarism detection programs with the Spanish language, the journal implements the following procedure for each manuscript received:

- When submitting the article, authors are requested to declare that the article has not been previously published or sent to other journals for evaluation and that they have followed the Guidelines for Authors, in which it is established that the postulated articles must be original.

- Upon receiving the article, the editor uses Internet search tools in order to track and compare other works by the same or different authors with data, results and writing aspects that allow for originality to be confirmed and to avoid plagiarism practices.

- When submitting the article for evaluation, reviewers are requested, based on their knowledge of the sources and the literature on the subject, to alert the journal to possible indicators of plagiarism with works previously published in other sources.

If plagiarism is found, Analecta vet follows COPE guidelines

The magazine considers the following practices to be plagiarism:

Direct plagiarism
- Minimal changes are made and a foreign text is presented as its own.

- The authorship of fragments (sentences or paragraphs) that correspond to foreign texts is omitted (either if they are reproduced in full and without quotation marks or if they are presented through paraphrases).

Plagiarism in direct quotes
- The quotation marks are not used to indicate the fragments (sentences or paragraphs) that are reproduced in full.
- Only part of the fragment (phrases or paragraphs) reproduced in full is indicated by quotation marks (it is omitted that the sentences before and/or after the passage in quotation marks also correspond to the quoted text).

Plagiarism in paraphrases

- The changes made do not substantially modify the wording of the original fragment (sentences or paragraphs), therefore, they do not constitute paraphrases.
- The paraphrase is extensive and the paraphrased passages are not clearly distinguished from the actual passages.
- The paraphrase is continuous and no material, own ideas or critical reflections are added that allow interaction or that enrich the information available in other works already published.

Plagiarism is not considered when:
- The reproduced passages do not dominate the writer's original contributions.
- Embedding other people's passages is used to allow the author to critically interact with another person's views.
- The original text argument retains its meaning, but is reworked with different words or features.

Self-plagiarism or recycling fraud
- Minor changes are made to the text itself and it is presented as if it were a different work.
- The indication that it is a previously published work that is recycled with corrections or with new additions is omitted.
It is not considered self-plagiarism when:
- Previous work is the basis for a new contribution, and key parts must be repeated to explain and defend the new arguments.
- The author considers that what was developed in previous works cannot be better presented for the new publication.
- Repeated passages do not exceed 30% of the original work.

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Data Availability Policy

Analecta vet promotes transparency and reproducibility of published research so that other researchers can replicate the studies described in their articles, either to corroborate or refute the results obtained, in accordance with the provisions of National Law 26,899 on Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories

In order to favor the reproducibility of the results, the journal requires authors to make available without restrictions the data sets with which they carried out the research described in their article. If there are limitations arising from ethical or legal reasons, the authors must indicate how other researchers should do to access this data.

All information and research data sent to Analecta will be uploaded and made available on SEDICI, the repository of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, in order to increase compliance with the FAIR principles: Locatable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (data can be found, accessed, must be on systems capable of interoperability and can be reused in other investigations).
Authors are encouraged to deposit data with SEDICI, or any other research data repository (such as FigShare, Mendeley Data or Zenodo), before submitting a contribution to the journal. Thus, when submitting the article, only the URL where the research data can be found should be indicated.

Authors are requested to use formats that maximize data accessibility and reuse (for example, in the case of tabulated data, the use of a spreadsheet is suggested). If necessary, it is recommended to publish together with the data the algorithms or treatments (pipelines) that must be carried out on these data for their correct interpretation.

This research data policy was adopted on January 1, 2020 and applies to works received after that date. Articles published before that date are not subject to the policy described.

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Humane  animal care and use

Research studies involving animals must have been performed in compliance with guidelines outlined in the US Animal Welfare Act, US Public Health Service Policy on the Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, National Research Council’s Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, or Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching or compliance with equivalent guidelines. If animals were euthanised, the method of euthanasia must be indicated in the manuscript. 

Studies involving samples or records owned by the author's institution (such as archived samples owned by a diagnostic laboratory) may not require Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) approval or informed consent of the animal's original owners, depending on the requirements of the institution and local laws. In such circumstances, the journal does not require a statement of IACUC approval or informed owner consent. Authors must ensure that they have obtained appropriate permission from the institution or individuals who own the samples or records, before submitting a manuscript that involves analysis of those samples.

For studies in which samples, data, or photographs are collected from privately owned animals (such as client-owned animals), authors must state in the Material and methods section whether written or verbal informed owner consent was obtained, or include a statement explaining why such consent was not necessary. Actual written informed consent must not be included with the article, as this breaches confidentiality. As mentioned above, such consent may not be necessary if ownership of diagnostic specimens is transferred to the author’s institution. If research participants (such as animal owners) received compensation or were offered any incentive for participating in the study, this must be stated.

Analecta Veterinaria does not publish works in which results obtained in humans are reported. Nevertheless, reports that include surveys of human subjects must include a statement that the survey was approved by an institutional ethics board. In the Materials and methods section of the manuscript, it must be stated the full name and institution of the research ethics board, in addition to the approval number.