Code of conduct for authors

Authors of manuscripts submitted to the journal Cirugía y Cirujanos agree to adhere to the following principles:

1. Honesty

2. Integrity

3. Responsibility

4. Transparency

In any case, they must disclose any potential conflicts of interest and/or funding, grants, or honoraria received from private sources within the last 3 years or during the course of their research.

The following actions will be considered malpractice and may lead to the retraction of the manuscript: 

- Plagiarism

- Failure to adhere to international ethical considerations in the conduct of research

- Data fragmentation or “salami slicing”

- Falsification, misappropriation, or unauthorized reproduction by the intellectual author of data, figures, images, algorithms, or tables

- Duplicate or redundant publication

- Manipulation of bibliographic citations, including unjustified self-citation

- Omission of relevant information that has a direct impact on the content of the manuscript

- Unjustified alteration of the list of authors
 

For detailed information, please consult the COPE website https://publicationethics.org/