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It is the intent of Begell House to publish original research articles of the highest quality using fair and ethical procedures in screening and peer-reviewing submitted manuscripts. ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS REPORTING STANDARDSAuthors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. DATA ACCESS AND RETENTIONAuthors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication. ORIGINALITY AND PLAGIARISMThe authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Begell House uses plagiarism detection software to help ensure authors' contributions are original. Editors will review plagiarism reports and may request additional revisions based on the results. In excessive cases, editors may reject manuscripts solely on the basis of the results. MULTIPLE, REDUNDANT OR CONCURRENT PUBLICATIONAn author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior. Authors are required to affirm that their manuscript has not been concurrently submitted elsewhere during the initial submission process.An author who is discovered to have concurrently submitted a manuscript to more than one publication will be made aware of the duplicate submission and will automatically have their manuscript rejected. The editor(s) of all other affected publications will also be notified. After review, additional steps may be taken, including preventing the author from submitting future manuscripts to Begell House and notifying the author's institution of the concurrent submissions. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SOURCESProper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.