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To prevent these undesirable phenomena, the editorial office adopts the following rules:

1. The authors of the publication should disclose the contribution of individual persons to the creation of the publication (with affiliation and contribution, i.e. information about who is the author of the concept, assumptions, methods, protocol, etc. used in the preparation of the publication), with the main responsibility for disclosing the indicated data is borne by the submitter of the study.
2. In the case of phenomena such as "ghostwriting" and "guest authorship" the editorial office documents these cases and notifies the institution employing the author and associations, teams and scientific societies of which he is a member.
3. In the case of financing research used in the publication, the author is obliged to provide the source of funding.