Ethical guidelines and copyright
Ethical guidelines
Use of politically correct (inclusive, non-offensive) language. For more, please see APA guidelines: https://www.apa.org/about/apa/equity-diversity-inclusion/language-guidelines
Balanced (non-biased) discussion
Permission must be obtained for copyrighted material from other sources (third party material, especially figures, tables, lyrics etc.)
Plagiarism, including auto-plagiarism (publishing one’s identical works without indicating the original source/with) should be avoided and these submissions will be automatically rejected.
For empirical studies:
An ethical approval by an independent body is necessary when appropriate, to protect respondents’ rights and integrity.
Transparency of the research process
Anonymity and confidentiality when relevant, not only for persons but organizations or localities if they may suffer any detrimental consequences by being named.
Open Access Statement
This is an open access journal, which means that all contents are freely available without any charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the article, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
Copyright and Licensing
The copyright remains with the author as the creator of the original work.
This journal uses Creative Commons licensing for future use of the publication (CC BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
This means that you are free to share (copy and redistribute) or adapt the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit, that is, properly cite the source and provide the link both to the original publication and to the license (Creative Commons). While adapting the publication, any changes must be clearly indicated and the new version must conform to ethical requirements (e.g., https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines; https://journals.lib.pte.hu/index.php/szocialisszemle/Ethics)
Use of repositories
In accordance with the above licensing policy, authors can deposit the different versions (submitted, accepted or published) versions of their work in an institutional or other repository of their choice.
This journal uses the official repository of the University of Pécs ( https://pea.lib.pte.hu/home) and of Országos Széchenyi Könyvtár (National Széchenyi Library) (https://oszk.hu/epa). Upload is in progress.
Post-publication Notices, Retraction and Removal
Minor errors/omissions discovered after publication are corrected in the original article. In these cases, a short correction notification written and approved by the authors and reviewed by a competent editor. A problem is considered minor if it does not impair the scholarly integrity of the work.
Major errors:
- The results of the study are not valid. Depending on the problem, a correction note is necessary (e.g., for an involuntary author mistake) or the article will be marked as retracted (e.g., for data fabrication or plagiarism). Reasons for retraction are given in a separate statement.
- The article will be removed if it is in violation of the law or contains risky/harmful content.
