JFNR Editorial Policies

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1. Research Ethics

Research involving human subjects should be carried out as per the international assertions and should be endorsed by an appropriate ethics committee. A statement detailing ethical approval procedures should be included in the manuscript during submission. The editor-in-chief or the associate editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that are not carried out as per the ethical framework.

Experimental research on plants (either cultivated or wild), including the collection of plant material vertebrates or any regulated invertebrates, must be carried out under institutional, national, or international guidelines, and where possible should have been endorsed by an appropriate ethics committee. Plant voucher specimens must be deposited in the national herbarium or other public collection providing access to deposited material considering all the herbarium protocols and identification techniques. Written informed consent for the publication should be obtained for manuscripts that comprise details, images, or videos relating to a person.
In cases of proven research misconduct involving published articles, or where the scientific integrity of the article is significantly undermined, articles may be retracted.

Data falsification (manipulating data to give a fake impression) and data fabrication (making up research results) are considered serious research misconduct and will lead to the automatic rejection of the manuscript. The research misconduct may be reported to the author/s institutions.

Plants, animals, algae, and fungi should be written following the latest International Code of Nomenclature for plants, animals, algae, and fungi, respectively.

Any manuscript submitted to this journal should be original and not its substantial parts are submitted elsewhere and are under consideration. The journal applies Cross Check’s plagiarism detection procedures and takes seriously all cases of publication misconduct. Any suspected cases of plagiarism will be considered carefully and the editor-in-chief may contact the author's institution. Text recycling (self-plagiarism) is also considered an attempt at plagiarism and is unacceptable.

2. Article Publication Charges

All articles published by the Journal of Forestry and Natural Resources are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download, and share. The JFNR does not charge a publication fee.

3. Appeals and Complaints

Appeal to reconsider a rejected paper should be directed to the editor-in-chief. Authors who wish to appeal an editorial decision should submit a formal letter of appeal to the journal by contacting the journal editorial office. The appeal will be assessed based on potential error demonstrated during the peer review process or the editor assessment, important additional data provided or any convincing bias demonstrated in the process. Final decisions on appeals will be made by the Editorial Board Member handling the paper or the Editorial Manager.

4. Competing Interest

Authors are required to declare any competing financial or other interest concerning their work. All competing interests that are declared will be listed at the end of published articles. Where an author gives no competing interests, the listing will be ignored meaning the author does not have any competing interest.

5. Copyright

Authors of articles published in the Journal of Forestry and Natural Resources retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work.