Editor staff should strictly implement relevant national laws and regulations, and abide by academic publishing ethics and norms. All submissions should be dealt with in a timely and fair manner. Editors should respect the author's research results and the report of reviewers, and keep the information of authors and reviewers confidential. Finally, cheating in academics is avoided.

Duty of publication

Editors should be responsible for all editorial sessions of the manuscript, including continuously promoting the development of the journal and ensuring that the edited manuscripts are published on time with high quality. Editors should obey the relevant policies formulated by the journal's editorial committee, and at the same time comply with relevant laws and regulations involving defamation, infringement and plagiarism.

Confidentiality

It is obliged to keep the materials in each link of review and revision confidential. The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, and editorial committee, as appropriate.

Fair play

An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content based on the principle of fairness, and acceptation or reject of papers must only rely on the basis of the originality, importance, clarity, and compliance of the journal's purpose and scope.

Conflicts of interest

Editors should ensure that the review of the paper is fair and reasonable. Editor must propose to replace the reviewer who have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers, and the editor-in-chief or other editorial committee members shall be responsible for the review of the paper.

Other items

• When the edited paper has major revisions, it should communicate with the author in time and obtain the author's consent.

• Encourage academic contention and have the obligation to answer the author’s different views on the reviewer’s report.

• Eliminate all business-oriented and interest exchanges that are detrimental to research ethics.

• Ensure that the information submitted by the author shall not be used for the editor’s personal research or for the research of others; ensure that the identity of reviewers and other relevant personnel are protected during the blind review process.