Plagiarism Detection Policy and Code of Ethics

Plagiarism Detection
Those responsible for each section of the Editorial Committee will submit the manuscript to review and search on the web of other publications of the authors, title, abstract, results, conceptualizations, for comparison and verification of similarities of content, check the originality of the same and identify the presence of possible faults against intellectual property, including improper citation, altered and self-plagiarism, and may use specific software (for example: Turnitin).

Code of ethics
Originality: Authors of manuscripts submitted to Revista de Educación en Biología assure that the work is original; that it does not contain parts from other authors or from other works already published by the authors. In addition, they affirm the veracity of data and of all empirical information contained in the article.

Avoid repetitions: The author should not publish articles in which the same results are repeated in more than one scientific journal.

Sources consulted: The author should always cite, according to the journal's standards, the sources consulted and the contributions mentioned in each article.

Authorship: all persons who contributed to the intellectual construction process should be included, both in the planning of the work, the collection and interpretation of the information, as well as in the conceptualizations presented in the article.

Access and retention: If the Editorial Board considers it appropriate, the authors of the articles should also make available the sources or data on which the research is based, which may be kept for a reasonable period of time after publication and possibly made accessible.
Conflict of interest and disclosure: all authors are required to declare explicitly that there are no conflicts of interest that may have influenced the results obtained or the interpretations proposed.
Responsibility: all the authors accept responsibility for the content of the article. They undertake that an updated and relevant bibliographic review of the subject of the article has been carried out.