Authors are advised to adhere strictly to the ethical standards as prescribed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Authors must confirm the followings:

• Submitted manuscripts must be the original work of the author(s);
• Only unpublished (full or in partial) manuscripts should be submitted;
• It is unethical to submit a manuscript to more than one journal concurrently;
• Any conflict of interest must be clearly stated;
• The sources of data used in the development of the manuscript should be acknowledged;
• All errors discovered in the manuscript after submission must be swiftly communicated to the Editor;
• Authors should use only citations that are relevant to their manuscripts. Adding references which are not relevant to the work should be avoided.
• Authors should avoid data Fabrication, manipulation or falsification in their work. The Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal Research (JAVAR) will follow the COPE guidelines in suspected cases.
• Authors should avoid plagiarism. The policy of JAVAR is to publish only unplagiarized material. We check the submitted manuscript for similarity index by iThenticate. Highly similar articles are directly rejected. The plagiarism is counted excluding references.
  

Reviewers are expected to evaluate a manuscript for:

• Critical analysis,
  
• Comparative analysis, and
  
• (most importantly) integrity and novelty of the research work.

Therefore, reviewers must confirm the following; that:

• All manuscripts are reviewed in fairness based on the intellectual content of the article regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship or political values of author(s);
• Any observed conflict of interest during the review process must be communicated to the Editor;
• All information pertaining to the manuscript is kept confidential;
• Any information that may be the reason for the rejection of publication of a manuscript must be communicated to the Editor.

Editors must confirm the following:

• All manuscripts are evaluated in fairness based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship or political values of authors;
• Information pertaining to manuscripts are kept confidential;
• Any observed conflict of interest pertaining to manuscripts should be disclosed;

Editorial Board takes responsibility for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts based on the reviewer’s evaluation of the manuscript, policies of the journal editorial board and legal restrain acting against plagiarism, libel and copyright infringement.