Ethical standards - Plagiarism policy

Ethical Guidelines for Publishing exist to: ensure high-quality scientific publications, that authors receive credit for their ideas, and to ensure public confidence in scientific findings. All articles not in accordance with these standards will be removed from the journal if negligence is discovered at any time, even after publication. Cuadernos de Herpetología is committed to publishing only original material, that is, material that has not been published, nor is it under review on other sites or journals. All authors of the manuscript must have made a significant scientific contribution to the aforementioned research at work and have tacitly approved it. Manuscripts that have fabricated or falsified results (including the manipulation of images and figures) and manuscripts that are considered plagiarism (in whole or in part) of other authors' manuscripts (published or unpublished) will incur sanctions. Sanctions include (i) Immediate rejection of the manuscript. (ii) Immediate rejection of any other manuscript submitted to the journal by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript. (iii) Prohibition for all authors to new submissions to the journal Cuadernos de Herpetología, either individually or in combination with other authors of the infringing manuscript, as well as in combination with any other author This ban will be imposed for a minimum of 2 years.