For the purpose of respecting and protecting academic publication standards, regulating scientific research behaviors, purifying academic environment, pushing establishment of scientific morality and honesty of scientific research, our publication list out the follow academic dishonorable behaviors: 

1.     For text academic dishonorable behaviors

We will conduct the academic misconduct inspection of all incoming manuscripts in the first review stage and the imitated acceptance stage. If any academic dishonorable behaviors are found such as plagiarism, falsification, and interpolation, or the manuscripts exceed the standard repetitive rate (the repetitive rate of summarized articles exceeds 25%, and the repetitive rate of research articles exceeds 20%), the manuscripts will be declined and returned back to the author.

For manuscripts sponsored by fund project, once accepted, the name of the fund project and fund serial number cannot be changed or deleted, if not, will be considered as academic dishonorable behaviors.

2.     Academic dishonorable behaviors in submission and publication

We firmly resist actions such as duplicate submission, repetitive publication, and separate publication, actions above once be found, articles will be declined and returned back to author immediately.

Duplicate submission means same article or several articles with little differences (such as title of article, keywords, abstract, order of authors, organizations of authors, or little differences of the article text) are submitted to multi-journals, or submit articles to other periodicals within 6 months of the last submission (for our publication, if there are no any acceptance notifications within 6 month on the day of submission, authors are allowed to handle the articles on their own).

Repetitive publication means author massively uses contents already been published in his past publications, or repetitively submit the same published article with no or little changes without any declaration.

Separate publication means author separately publish several units of an article which can be published as a whole article, and actually is based on the same research results of topic, database, and information.

In order to protect the quality and reputation of <Natural Gas and Oil> periodical, and be responsible to all our authors, we will hold the right to ask authors to take all responsibilities. We would like all our authors to raise your vigilance, and strictly follow the regulations.

Editorial Department of <Natural Gas and Oil>