Author Guidelines 

MJHAS is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and its Best Practice Guidelines.

The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure high-quality scientific works in the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like do arise. The editors of MJHAS take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero-tolerance policy. For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines, please visit http://publicationethics.org.

Authors wishing to publish their papers in MJAHS must abide by the following:

• Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest for the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper before submission.
• Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.
• The data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper so that other researchers can replicate the work.
• Raw data should preferably be publicly deposited by the authors before submission of their manuscript. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal if requested. Authors need to ensure appropriate measures are taken so that raw data is retained in full for a reasonable time after publication.
• Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
• The journal accepts exact translations of previously published work. All submissions of translations must conform to our policies on translations.
• If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken. Please refer to our policy regarding updating published papers.
• Your manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already-published figures or images, please obtain the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license. For further information, see the Rights and Permissions page.
• Plagiarism, data fabrication, and image manipulation are not tolerated.
• Plagiarism is not acceptable in MJAHS submissions.

Plagiarism includes copying text, ideas, images, or data from another source, even from your publications, without giving any credit to the source.

Reuse of text that is copied from another source must be between quotes, and the original source must be cited. If a study's design or the manuscript's structure or language have been inspired by previous works, these works must be explicitly cited.

• All MJHAS submissions are checked for plagiarism. If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, an investigation will take place, and action taken in accordance with our policies.
• Image files must not be manipulated or adjusted in any way that could lead to misinterpretation of the information provided by the original image.
• If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed during the peer review process, we may reject the manuscript. If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed after publication, we may correct or retract the paper.

Our editors will investigate any allegations of publication misconduct and may contact the authors' institutions or funders if necessary. If evidence of misconduct is found, appropriate action will be taken to correct or retract the publication. Authors are expected to comply with the best ethical publication practices when publishing with MJHAS.