Ethics and policies

Editorial Policy

All papers submitted to the Boletim do Instituto de Pesca will be evaluated preliminarily by the Editorial Board, if overcome this initial screening will be sent to two expert reviewers in the covered area. The publication will be made only with the approval of the document by the reviewers, being the Editorial Board of Boletim do Instituto de Pesca final decision accepted.

The selection of items will be based on originality, quality and scientific merit.

The evaluation process used by the Editorial Board of Boletim do Instituto de Pesca is the "single blind review" system by peers, i.e. confidentiality of the identity of both authors and reviewers, which will be maintained throughout the process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editorial Board will take care that the reviewers of each article are compulsorily of different institutions of origin of those authors. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final. 

Open Science

BIP has aligned itself with Open Science communication practices and adopts simple anonymized evaluation, where the identity of the authors is made available to the evaluators. During the evaluation process, evaluators can choose to reveal their identities and interact with the authors. The name of the area editor responsible for processing the manuscripts is published in the final version of the article.

BIP recommends that authors deposit manuscripts as preprints to speed up the circulation of article data before peer review. A preprint is defined as a manuscript that is ready for submission to a journal and that is deposited on reliable servers before or in parallel with submission to a journal. The use of a preprint is at the author's option and it is assumed that, when submitting, the name of the preprint server and its DOI will be entered into the submission system. Articles submitted as preprints share with the journals the unpublished nature of the publication. When a manuscript with a preprint deposit is accepted for publication, both will be listed through the DOI assigned to them. BIP recommends preprint repositories such as BioRXiv, AgriRxiv, EmeRI and SciELO Preprints.

The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca offers immediate free access to its content, following the principles of free and democratized open access to scientific knowledge, according to the Gold Open Access model. To maximize the dissemination and use of published material, the BIP adopts the Creative Commons license with CC BY 4.0 attribution. Thus, copyright will belong to the authors, providing free and immediate access to the work and allowing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or create links to the full texts of the articles, crawl for indexing, pass as data to software or use for any other legal purpose, including commercial purposes, as long as due credit is given. Authors are allowed to deposit all versions of their work [Preprint (Submitted Version), Accepted Manuscript (Accepted Manuscript Version), Published Article (Version of Record)] in an institutional or thematic repository, without embargo.

The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca recommends that authors, whenever applicable, deposit and share the data, codes and/or methods used in the production of the manuscript. It is up to the responsible author to inform the chosen repository during the submission process, enabling access to evaluators and editors, unless this is not possible for ethical, privacy or confidentiality reasons. To ensure full transparency of the data obtained, the BIP requires authors to declare that, for data not available in public repositories, it is available on request. In such cases, authors must state why the data is not publicly available. If data sharing is not applicable to the article because no datasets were generated or analyzed during the study, this must be declared. Research data includes, but is not limited to: raw data, processed data, spreadsheets, statistics, laboratory notebooks, field notebooks, questionnaires, photographs, methodologies, standards and protocols. Authors can use their institution's data repository or choose a data repository from re3data.org or SciELO_list recommended repositories. Other options are Dryad, Figshare, Zenodo, Mendeley Data, OSF and SciELO Data.

Plagiarism Policy

The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca has a tracking policy for plagiarism. Items that are detected will be automatically denied and returned. This journal aims to publish original high-quality research work. Submission of a manuscript to this journal indicates that the study has not been published anywhere or has not been submitted elsewhere for publication. If author(s) are using any part of a published paper (in English or any other language), they should give proper reference or in any case, if required they should get permission from the previous publisher or copyright holder (whichever is suitable). Plagiarized manuscripts will not be considered for publication. If plagiarism is found in any published paper after internal investigation, a letter would be immediately sent to all the authors, their affiliated institutes and funding agencies, if applied and subsequently the paper will be retracted.

The views expressed in the papers are the sole responsibility of their authors. The original The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca reserves the right to make minor adjustments in order to maintain the uniformity of publication.

Author rights

The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca uses the CC BY License for all articles published after March 2018. The CC BY License allows others to distribute, remix, adapt and create from their work, even for purposes duly quoted. It is the most flexible license of all available licenses. It is recommended for maximizing the dissemination and use of licensed materials.

Thus, by submitting an article to the Boletim do Instituto de Pesca, the author agrees to its publication under the CC BY License, mentioned above. Consistent with this license, the Boletim do Instituto de Pesca also follows the recommendations of the DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals - which encourages the publication of open access journals. Therefore, once the article has been approved and published, the author retains all copyright and copyrights of the published version, transferring to the magazine the right to publish and maintain the registration of this official version updated, under the terms indicated above. The authors are encouraged to archive this officially recorded version, published by Boletim do Instituto de Pesca, both in social media dedicated to scientific communication and in personal or institutional repositories.

As the author, you (or your employer or institution) have some rights to reuse your work, always bearing in mind the terms of the above CC BY license. In this case, the authors have the right to:

• Share your article in the same manner as allowed to third parties, under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY license, provided that the work used is referenced and quoted:

• Preserve patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights (including research data).

• Appropriate allocation and credit for the published work.

Policies on Conflict of Interest 

Declaration of interest

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disclose any interests in two places: 1. A summarized declaration of interest statement in the title page file (if double-blind) or the manuscript file (if single-blind). If there are no interests to declare then please state this: Declarations of interest: none. This summary statement will be ultimately published if the article is accepted. 2. Detailed disclosures as part of a separate Declaration of Interest form, which forms part of the journal's official records. It is important for potential interests to be declared in both places and that the information matches.

For Boletim do Instituto de Pesca the following relationships between editors and authors are considered conflicts and are avoided: Current colleagues, recent colleagues, recent co-authors, master and doctoral students for which the editor served as a committee chair. After papers are assigned, individual editors are required to inform the managing editor of any conflicts not included in the list above. In the event that none of the editors pass all of the conflict screens, co-editors who are least conflicted will be assigned to the manuscript. In addition, co-editors who are least conflicted are assigned for all paper submissions reviewed by sitting editors. Journal submissions are also assigned to referees to minimize conflicts of interest. After papers are assigned, referees are asked to inform the editor of any conflicts that may exist.

Animal and Human rights 

In works that involve the manipulation of vertebrates, a certificate must be sent that the research was approved by the Animal Ethics Committees (AECs) of the institution of origin of the research. As for Human Research, a certificate that the project was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs) should also be sent in case of socioeconomic or ethno-ecological studies. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

Ethical Standards

The act of publishing involves the author, the journal editor, the peer-reviewers, the publisher and there are clear responsibilities that all involved to meet expected ethical standards at all stages in their involvement from submission to publication of an article. 

The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca is committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow the Council of Science Editors (CSE) that has set standards and provides guidelines for the best practices in order to meet these requirements, with respect to: Monitoring/safeguarding publishing ethics by editorial board; Rules for retracting articles; Maintaining the integrity of the academic record; Precluding business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards; Always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed. Banning any form of plagiarism and/or fraudulent data.

The Editor-in-chief, Associate Editors and Editorial Board guarantee the needs of readers and authors, ensure the quality of the material they publish, maintain the integrity of the academic record, guarantee intellectual standards and are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies in the implementation of Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics, intellectual and ethical standards.

Responding to Research Misconduct

The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca uses the International guidelines for rules of good practices, recommended principles for investigating cases of research misconduct, and texts suggested by the OECD Global Science Forum Coordinating Committee and the Council of Science Editors (CSE) for international agreements in conducting international misconduct investigations.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA)

The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca is committed to the principles of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) in its practices aimed at expanding knowledge and improving the human condition. BIP seeks to address systemic inequalities and prejudices, promoting equitable opportunities for authors and an inclusive environment for the development of all actors involved in publishing, contributing to the advancement of these principles in the scientific community in the area of fisheries science.

Section editors are oriented and motivated to:

(1) Improve diversity in the choice of referees;

(2) Encourage authors to adopt more inclusive citation practices in their decisions;

(3) Encourage inclusive language.

The editors-in-chief, attentive to increasing diversity and recognizing the barriers that authors, editors and reviewers belonging to populations historically excluded due to markers such as race, geographical origin, gender, class, sexuality, disability, among others, face in publishing, always seek to:

(1) Avoid discrepancies in the acceptance of articles by focusing on increasing the diversity of authors, reviewers and editors;

(2) Mitigate both the risk and the impact of bias in decision-making during review;

(3) Identify alternative processes to interrupt bias;

(4) Adopt standards for inclusive culture.

Privacy Statement

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