To ensure that the operations of the Journal of Digital Education and Learning Engineering (JDELE) adhere to the standards of publication and dissemination as practiced by international academic publishers and journals, the editorial board has established a framework of responsibilities for all parties involved in the publication process. This serves as an ethical guideline for publishing and disseminating academic works. The guidelines are consistent with the ethical publishing standards recommended by ELSEVIER. The details are as follows:

Duties of Editors:

1) The editor is solely responsible for decision making which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published, regarding the ่journal policy and conditions, the academic strength of the work, and its importance to researchers and readers. 

2) The editor shall ensure that the peer-review process is fair, unbiased, and timely and select potential reviewers with suitable expertise in education and the relevant field.

3) For fair play, the editor should evaluate all submitted manuscripts via the journal’s standard electronic submission system for their intellectual content without regard to other factors (i.e., race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors).

4) The editor must not attempt to influence the journal’s ranking by artificially increasing any journal metric, e.g. requiring specific references, products, or services to be included.

5) The editor must protect the confidentiality of all material submitted to the journal and all communications with reviewers.

6)  To declare the competing interests, the editor must not be involved in decisions about manuscripts which s/he has written him/herself or have been written by family members or which relate to products or services in which the editor has an interest. 

7) The editor should work to safeguard the integrity of the published record by reviewing and assessing reported or suspected misconduct (research, publication, reviewer, and editorial) in conjunction with the publisher (or society)

Duties of Reviewers:

1) Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions, and editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

2) Reviewers must not share the review or information about the paper with anyone or contact the authors directly without permission from the editor. In addition, privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

3) A reviewer should be alert to potential ethical issues in the paper and bring these to the editor's attention, i.e., any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which the reviewer has personal knowledge.

4) Reviewers should avoid any personal bias they may have, consider this when reviewing a paper, and express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Duties of Authors:

1) Authorship should be limited to those who have contributed significantly to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study.

2) The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

3) Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review and should be prepared to provide public access to such data.

4) An author should not generally publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal of primary publication and concurrently submit the same manuscript to more than one journal. 

5) Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given.

6) All submissions must disclose all relationships that could potentially present a conflict of interest.

7) When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her published work, the author must promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

8) Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed and an objective discussion of its significance. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work.

9) Statements of compliance are required if the work involves chemicals, procedures, or equipment that have unusual hazards inherent in their use or if it involves the use of animal or human subjects.

10) Authors should not introduce a specific feature within an original image. They should comply with any particular policy for graphical images the relevant journal applies, e.g., providing the original images as supplementary material with the article.