The online journal Cadernos EBAPE.BR, currently classified as A2 by the evaluation system Qualis Capes, within its broad field Administration, Accounting, and Tourism, aims to promote the debate of relevant themes in the Administration field, based on interdisciplinary and critical perspectives, with the purpose of constituting a free access academic space by publishing qualified articles.

The editorial process of Cadernos EBAPE.BR, from manuscript submission to publication decision, involves several parties: author(s), editor, associate editors, editorial board, reviewers, and editorial staff – thus, complying with the ethical standards applied by the journal at all stages of the editorial process is mandatory.

Cadernos EBAPE.BR, as a journal with national and international reach, is grounded in the ethical practices provided for by the regulations of Committee on Publication Ethics  (COPE), the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) – Criteria, policy, and procedures for admission and permanence of scientific journals in the SciELO Brazil Collection – and the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Administration (ANPAD) – Good practices of scientific publication – a manual for authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial board members, which set parameters for good editorial practices. Cadernos EBAPE.BR agrees and signs the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and the Code of Ethics and Conduct of the FGV.

Each member of the journal’s Editorial Structure, while pursuing her/his duties, takes responsibilities based on ethical practices in relation to gender relations, religion, and politics, ensuring her/his neutrality throughout the editorial process.

Cadernos EBAPE.BR has a plan for electronic backup and preservation of access to the magazine's content, in case it is no longer published, the entire collection will be available at the FGV Repository of Journals and Magazines.

ACTIONS APPLIED BY THE JOURNAL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ETHICAL STANDARDS

Ethical guidelines mandatory for authors:
The author(s) should observe the ethical and practical guidelines, under penalty of sanctions imposed by the editor and the editorial staff, which can suspend or revoke the publication privileges at any stage of the editorial process, as well as to request clarifications and/or further review of the article.
Ethical guidelines mandatory for the editorial board and reviewers:
The editorial board and the reviewers who work in the analysis of manuscripts selected for their assessment should be free of conflicts of interest related to the research and/or research funders, not acting at a personal level and observing proper conduct to present their arguments and recommendations to the author(s). They should accept for assessment only the manuscripts that fall into their field of practice/expertise, in order to ensure a coherent and relevant expert opinion.
Ethical guidelines mandatory for the editorial staff (Editor, Associate Editors, Editorial Department) and to the author (s):
The editorial staff should preserve the anonymity of everyone involved in the editorial process and have no conflicts of interest related to the rejection or approval of a manuscript throughout the editorial process.

- Copyright

The content of submitted articles is the sole responsibility of the author(s).When submitting an article, the authors guarantee that there is no violation of copyright or any other right of third parties. Articles may be cited without prior authorization provided that the source is clearly identified. The journal follows the Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0). This allows others to remix, adapt and build on from the originals for any purpose, even commercially, but they must acknowledge the source.

- Plagiarism

Safeguarding the editorial ethics of the studies submitted and published, Cadernos EBAPE.BR uses the software for checking content similarity/plagiarism (Crossref Similarity Check). Also, it resorts to the collaboration of expert reviewers, who, during double blind review, notify the editorial staff about any significant similarity between the manuscript submitted and articles already published or simultaneously submitted to other journals, as well as other information deemed relevant.

- Editorial transparency

Every stage of the editorial process, estimated deadlines, etc. are informed in the flowchart, available on the journal webpage for the internal and external audiences (editorial board, authors, readers). The annual statistical data may also be accessed by the journal’s regulation and classification agencies and the academic community as a whole.

- Article originality

Articles, book reviews, and case studies & teaching cases submitted should be unpublished elsewhere, either in Brazil or overseas, and should not be under consideration for publication and/or published in any other journal or other media source, except for works presented in Proceedings of conferences. The content of submitted articles is the sole responsibility of the author(s). When submitting an article, the authors guarantee that there is no violation of copyright or any other right of third parties. Articles may be cited without prior authorization provided that the source is clearly identified.

- Statement of Responsibility and Copyright

Before the official publication of the article on the journal webpage and indexers, the journal is responsible for sending the final version of the manuscript for approval of publication by the author(s), along with the nominal Statement of Responsibility and Copyright (institutional internal model), for signing and validation.

- Retraction

The procedures adopted by Cadernos EBAPE.BR for filing and publishing errata, retractions, and expressions of concern are based on the standards provided by the indexer and publisher SciELO, which follow the guidelines of the main committees of scientific ethics, indexing, and publication. The main source within the journal field consists in the COPE’s retraction guidelines.