Ethics and Policy

The work described in the article must have been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving human; EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments; Uniform Requirements for manuscripts submitted to Biomedical journals. A statement should appear in the manuscript that the work has been approved and give details, or state that approval was not required. This statement should appear after any acknowledgements and just before the Reference list.

A signed ethical statement form is required for the following article types: Original Research Paper, Short Communication, Review Article, Case Report, and Case Series. Unnecessary cruelty in animal experimentation is not acceptable to the Editors of Dog Behavior.

Timing

Authors will receive a response within 60 days from the submission.

Conflict of interest

All authors and reviewers are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work.

Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. If there is no conflict of interest this should be stated. This should be listed at the end of the text, after any acknowledgements and just before the Reference list, under a subheading "Conflict of interest statement".

Malpractice

Edizioni ETS and the Editorial Board of Studi e Saggi Linguistici take their respective duties to prevent any kind of publication malpractice. The publisher, the journal editor, and the peer reviewers, play each their part and are responsible for the compliance with the following statements of publication ethics.

Publisher responsibilities

Edizioni ETS is committed to protect intellectual property and copyright, and respect privacy and personal data (especially for authors and peer reviewers). Edizioni ETS is alert to intellectual property issues and works with its Editors to handle potential violations of intellectual property laws and conventions.

Moreover, the Publisher works in close co-operation with its Editors and Peer Reviewers in order to foster editorial independence, and to guarantee transparency and integrity in peer-review process, particularly with respect to conflicts of interest.

Edizioni ETS always precludes business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards, and is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Commitments of the Reviewers

The reviewers are provided by the Editors with a guidance on everything that is expected of them. In particular, they must be particularly alert to redundant publication and plagiarism, and, in any case, they are required to disclose any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission.

While keeping a high quality of the review process, the reviewers’ comments should be as prompt as possible.

Peer reviewers’ identities are protected, and they are committed as well to handle submitted material in confidence.

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Journal History

«Dog behavior» is an international journal that focuses on all aspects of the behavior of dog and related canids, with a particular emphasis on clinical applications and research. The journal is published three times per year by Edizioni ETS.

In 2017, «Dog behavior» has been indexed in Scopus starting year 2015 (Volume 1, issue 1).

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