Ethical standards

a. Responsibilities of the Editor (in charge of the general coordination of the journal), the Publishing Board and the Editorial Board.

1. The Editor, the Publishing Board and the Editorial Board are responsible for ensuring the quality of the published material, applying objective criteria at all times, and excluding any discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, sexual orientation and religious belief.

2. The Editor, the Publishing Board and the Editorial Board shall safeguard the integrity and confidentiality of the information provided by the contributors to the journal.

3. The Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Board and Editorial Board are prohibited from using unpublished material for personal, group or institutional gain without the respective consent of the relevant contributors.

4. The Editorial Board undertakes to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions or apologies, if necessary.

5. The Editorial Board guarantees the anonymity of the peer review of the material received.

6. It is the responsibility of the Editorial Board to inform authors of the results of the evaluation of their submissions in a timely manner.

b. Responsibilities of evaluators

1. The evaluators promise to apply transparent and objective criteria to their reviews and exclude any discrimination based on the collaborators' race, gender, sexual orientation, and religious beliefs.

2. The evaluators undertake to treat all material entrusted to them as confidential. The possibility of discussing or commenting on the material with third parties during the evaluation period is prohibited.

3. The evaluators will refrain from participating in the evaluation if a conflict of interest is suspected.

4. The evaluators are prohibited from using the commissioned materials during the evaluation, selection and publication periods.

c. Responsibilities of authors

1. Authors must provide a separate declaration that guarantees – if used - the reliability of the data used in the research and its recoverability from institutional repositories or from where it is stored, except for those of a confidential nature, whose declaration must be justified by the author.

2. The authors must guarantee the originality of the materials submitted. The journal does not accept works that have been previously published, regardless of the format, unless they are declared as derivative works, and their licenses are compatible with those of Revista de Derecho (Coquimbo. En línea).

3. The journal actively rejects any plagiarism, partial or total. Authors must rigorously ensure that they attribute the quotations used to their sources under the guidelines required by the journal (please refer to the instructions for publication).

4. It's the authors' sole responsibility to submit materials in the format required by the journal (see instructions for publication). The journal reserves the right to reject submissions that do not comply with its submission guidelines.

All cases not considered in this document will be resolved according to the instructions provided by COPE.