Edition of a journal is a set of ethical standards that must be followed by persons (editors, authors and reviewers), taking part in publishing the results of research work satisfying the journal specificity. Editorial board, working out on these rules, followed recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Ethical Code of the Scientist of Ukraine. An experience of home and foreign scientific organizations and Editorial Boards of other editions have been also taken into account.

Ethical standards for the Editorial Board

Editorial Board bears responsibility for every publication in Journal, that necessitates it to follow the rules:

• Every submitted material for publication passes careful selection, tested for plagiarism, as well as external and internal reviewing;
• The Editorial Board has a right to reject to publish an article or return it for correction;
• An editor can’t permit publication of information if there are enough causes to consider it as a plagiarism;
• An editor of the Journal when making decision follows reliability of representation of facts and scientific value of work.

1. The Editorial Board must make decisions in a fair and unprejudiced fashion, be independent of commercial or other interests and guarantee honesty of the process of reviewing; it must rate intellectual content of manuscriptes without reference to race, sex, sexual orientation, religious views, origin, citizenship, social status or political preferences of authors.
2. In case of any violation of rights or common standards of scientific ethics, the Editorial Board has the right to withdraw even a published article. The Editorial Board reports about withdrawing of an article to its author and to the organization, where the work had been done.
3. According to the international law in the part of an author's right for informational sources, materials of the journal can`t be reproduced either fully or partially in any form (electronic or printed) without preliminary written consent of the authors and the Editorial Board. Using published materials in the context of other documents is only possible when a proper reference to the original papr is provided.
4. Unpublished data received from manuscripts submitted for editing can’t be used for personal purposes or passed to the third parties without written consent of an author. Information and ideas received in the course of editing and concerned with possible benefits must be kept confidentially and can`t be used with the purpose of personal gain.
5. The Editorial Board can’t ignore claims concerning viewed manuscripts or published materials. In case of conflict situation it takes all necessary measures to restore violated rights.

Ethical standards for reviewers

1. Reviewer must evaluate presenting results of researches objectively and well-reasoned. Personal critics of author are unacceptable. Reviewer must be impartial.
2. Reviewer must immediately return a manuscript submitted to him without reviewing, if:

• a chosen reviewer is not sure, that his qualification satisfies the level of research, represented in manuscript;
• a manuscript is closely related to current or published work of reviewer taking into account the possibility of conflict of interests.

1. Reviewer must consider manuscript submitted for review as a confidential document, which shouldn’t be given for examination or discussed with the third parties who have no authority from editorial board.
2. He can’t show the manuscript to the third parties or discuss it with colleagues with the exception of special cases, when reviewer needs someone’s professional consultation. 
3. Unpublished data received from submitted for reviewing manuscripts shouldn’t be used by reviewer in private purposes.
4. Reviewers must explain and argue their opinion appropriately in order to editors and authors could understand the base of their criticism. Any assertion that an observation, conclusion or argument has been already published must be accompanied with conforming reference.
5. Reviewer must notice any cases of insufficient citation by authors of the works other scientists, concerned to reviewing work, but it must be taken into consideration that remarks about insufficient citation look as prejudiced. Reviewer must make editor to pay attention to the similarity between reviewing work and any other manuscript, contemporaneously submitted to another journal.

Ethical standards for authors

1. Authors bear responsibility for content of their articles and for the fact of their publishing, for novelty and reliability of the results of scientific research. Knowingly false or falsified assertions are unacceptable.
2. Authors must follow requirements of editorial board about format of publications.
3. Presentation of plagiarism as an original work and presentation for publishing of previously published article are unacceptable.
4. Authors must indicate clearly the sources of all cited and presented information and set out references on literary sources in the proper way. (see Information for authors).
5. If author finds substantial errors or inaccuracies in the article at the stage of its reviewing or after its publishing, he must inform the editorial board immediately