Publication Ethics Statement

Acta Entomologica Sinica always complies with the recognized publication ethics. The authors, reviewers and journal editors of Acta Entomologica Sinica should fulfil the following responsibilities, and abide by other rules and requirements of this journal.

1 Authorship Responsibilities

(1) The paper must be unpublished original research (except for the review). It must be not published, or submitted elsewhere, and does not contain any content that is forged, deceiving, or plagiarized. The paper does not involve any state secrets or any infringement of intellectual property rights, does not contain any illegalities or any infringement of others’ legal rights.

(2) The citation of others’ work must be clearly indicated in the main text and listed in the references at the end of the paper. Once the submission was accepted, it will be deemed that the authors grant their right of reproduction and dissemination to the journal.

(3) The paper will be submitted for peer review and the authors have the opportunity to recommend or oppose proper reviewers.

(4) Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design or execution of the reported study. All authors are ordinal listed according to their contributions. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the paper (e.g. language editing), they should be recognized in the acknowledgements section. The corresponding author, who submits the paper for publication, should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

(5) All data of the paper must be real, accurate, and authentic. If mistakes are found in a published paper, the authors must inform editors, and provide an apology, correction, or retraction, as appropriate.

2 Reviewer Responsibilities

(1) Reviewers should ensure scientific and accurate review of manuscripts and make objective and fair evaluations. All comments should be made only considering its scientific value, regardless of the authors’ background, such as race, gender, or religious/political beliefs. Reviewers should avoid conflict of interests with the work or authors.

(2) Reviewers should fill in the review comments in time and feed back to the editorial office within the specified time. If reviewers cannot complete the reviewing process on time, the situation should be stated and the manuscript should be returned.

(3) Reviewers should treat papers under review as confidential materials, forbid to disseminate the data, opinions and conclusions of the paper in any form without permission.

3 Editor Responsibilities

(1) The editor is responsible for all editing procedures of the journal. The editor should abide by the relevant policies set by the journal editorial board and follow the relevant legal norms concerning defamation, infringement and plagiarism when selecting articles.

(2) The editor should maintain the authenticity of the review records, and has the obligation to keep record and keep the materials confidential for reviewing and modifying at each step. The editors and editorial staff shall not disclose any information about the submitted manuscript to others, except for exchanging necessary information among corresponding authors, reviewers, and editorial board members.

(3) The editor should select manuscripts fairly, accept or reject manuscripts only based on originality, importance, clarity, and conformity to the journal’ s aim and scope.

(4) When an edited article needs major revision, it is necessary to communicate with authors in time and obtain authors’ consent.

(5) The editor has the obligation to investigate the academic misconduct. Once the academic misconduct occurs in the submission or the published paper, the editor must take corresponding measures. If necessary, corrections, clarifications, withdrawals or apologies shall be published. The editor is obliged to hold authors and reviewer accountable for misconduct.

 (6) As the journal adopts single-anonymous peer review, the editor has the obligation to keep the information of the reviewers confidential.