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institutional, national, or international guidelines. OAE encourages authors to comply with the AALAS Guidelines,
the ARRIVE Guidelines, and/or the ICLAS Guidelines, and obtain prior approval from the relevant ethics committee.
Manuscripts must include a statement indicating that the study has been approved by the relevant ethical committee and the
whole research process complies with ethical guidelines. If a study is granted an exemption from requiring ethics approval,
the name of the ethics committee granting the exemption and the reason(s) for the exemption should be detailed. Editors
will take account of animal welfare issues and reserve the right to reject a manuscript, especially if the research involves
protocols that are inconsistent with commonly accepted norms of animal research.
3.3 Research Involving Cell Lines
Authors must describe what cell lines are used and their origin so that the research can be reproduced. For established cell
lines, the provenance should be stated and references must also be given to either a published paper or to a commercial
source. For de novo cell lines derived from human tissue, appropriate approval from an institutional review board or
equivalent ethical committee, and consent from the donor or next of kin, should be obtained. Such statements should be
listed on the Declaration section of Ethical Approval and Consent to Participate in the manuscript.
Further information is available from the International Cell Line Authentication Committee (ICLAC). OAE recommends
that authors check the NCBI database for misidentification and contamination of human cell lines.
3.4 Research Involving Plants
Experimental research on plants (either cultivated or wild), including collection of plant material, must comply with
institutional, national, or international guidelines. Field studies should be conducted in accordance with local legislation,
and the manuscript should include a statement specifying the appropriate permissions and/or licenses. OAE recommends
that authors comply with the IUCN Policy Statement on Research Involving Species at Risk of Extinction and the Convention
on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
For each submitted manuscript, supporting genetic information and origin must be provided for plants that were utilized. For
research manuscripts involving rare and non-model plants (other than, e.g., Arabidopsis thaliana, Nicotiana benthamiana,
Oriza sativa, or many other typical model plants), voucher specimens must be deposited in a public herbarium or other
public collections providing access to deposited materials.
3.5 Publication Ethics Statement
OAE is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best
Practice Guidelines.
The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to
guarantee to add high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data
falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of MRR take such
publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy.
Authors wishing to publish their papers in MRR must abide to the following:
● The author(s) must disclose any possibility of a conflict of interest in the paper prior to submission.
● The authors should declare that there is no academic misconduct in their manuscript in the cover letter.
● Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their
findings.
● Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the manuscript so that other researchers
can replicate the work.
● Authors should provide raw data if referees and the Editors of the journal request.
● Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
● Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already
published in another language will not be accepted).
● The manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published
figures or images, please get the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.
● Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.
● Plagiarism is not acceptable in OAE journals.
Plagiarism involves the inclusion of large sections of unaltered or minimally altered text from an existing source without
appropriate and unambiguous attribution, and/or an attempt to misattribute original authorship regarding ideas or results,
and copying text, images, or data from another source, even from your own publications, without giving credit to the source.
As to reusing the text that is copied from another source, it must be between quotation marks and the source must be cited.
If a study’s design or the manuscript’s structure or language has been inspired by previous studies, these studies must be
cited explicitly.
If plagiarism is detected during the peer-review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after
publication, we may publish a Correction or retract the paper.
Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results so that the
findings are not accurately represented in the research record.
Image files must not be manipulated or adjusted in any way that could lead to misinterpretation of the information provided
by the original image.
Irregular manipulation includes: introduction, enhancement, moving, or removing features from the original image;

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