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Publication Ethics Statement

Human-Machine Communication Policy on Ethics and Publishing

General Submission Rules

All submissions to Human-Machine Communication (HMC) may use plagiarism detection software to screen or review submissions. Although HMC is not part of the International Committee on Medical Journal Editors, HMC uses the ICMJE recommendations for the conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of scholarly work to submitted and published in Human-Machine Communication. HMC encourages authors to consult the ICMJE recommendations.

Please see the instructions for authors, for all other information concerning submission.

Additionally, please be aware of the following:

Data Sharing and Materials

HMC encourages the sharing of data and materials and supports practices of Open Science. HMC awards Open Science badges for such practices.

Data Sharing and Materials

Manuscripts submitted to HMC should not be under review at other journal(s) neither should an already published manuscript be submitted to HMC.

Author(s) state that by submitting the manuscript to HMC, the content submitted is original and all appropriate citations, clearances, IRB approval, and permissions are provided. Plagiarism in all its forms is unethical and is cause for removal of a manuscript from review or retraction of a published manuscript.

Review and Conflicts

The volume editor or special issue editor will ensure all papers are subject to a fair, anonymous and unbiased peer review process by experts in the subject. The editor may assign members of the Editorial Board for the anonymous review or may solicit reviews from experts who are not part of the Editorial Board. The editor will make the final decision based off the suggestions of the reviewers.

Author(s) should indicate all sources that have supported the research and declare any conflict(s) of interest and competing interest upon submission of a manuscript. As noted in the ICMJE recommendations upon submission of a manuscript of any type or format the author(s) are responsible for disclosing all relationships and activities that might bias or be seen to bias their work.

Authorship and Contribution

The author(s) should provide acknowledgement to all who have made contributions to the research, even if not listed as an author. HMC allows this to be presented in an acknowledgement section of the manuscript or on the manuscript landing page. Submissions should include as author(s) all who have made a significant contribution to the work reported which includes but is not limited to physical resources, conceptualization of research or design, or acquisition or curation of data, or the analysis and interpretation of data. HMC expects all submissions to ensure that all authors who contributed to the submission are acknowledged and that the author list and order accurately reflects the contributions of all authors. As noted in the ICMJE recommendations authorship is based on the following 4 criteria: (1) substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND (2) drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND (3) Final approval of the version to be published; AND (4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. HMC supports the ICMJE definitions of authorship.

No tool, program, or other forms of AI (such as a large language model, i.e., LLM) will receive a byline (recognition as an author) on an article published in Human-Machine Communication. Currently, machines do not have the ability to accept responsibility or discipline for work created and therefore are prohibited from authorship. Authors using any machine-generated content, similar to content created by an LLM, are required to document this in both the acknowledgments and methods section of a submission. Furthermore, HMC may place an LLM-badge on the article as an acknowledgment to readers about the practice.

Appeals and Corrections

Editors reserve the right to reject submission if they do not meet the scope of HMC and all manuscripts which do not following the formatting and submission requirements will be returned to the author(s). Ethical oversight is the responsibility of the Volume Editor and Editor-in-Chief and any questions or comments should be directed to these positions. The editors will follow the awards COPE flowcharts as noted in the ICMJE recommendations when expressions of concern arise.

Author(s) should promptly inform the journal editor of any uncovered error(s) in a published manuscript and cooperate with the editorial team in retraction or correction of the manuscript.

All appeals and complaints to the journal will be handed by the Volume Editor and the Editor-in-Chief.

Post-publication discussions and corrections. If a correction is needed, HMC will follow these minimum standards outlined by the ICMJE. HMC will publish a correction notice as soon as possible detailing changes from and citing the original publication. The revised article with details of the changes from the original version and the date(s) on which the changes were made will be posted. Any previous versions of the article will be archived at archive.org. The DOI will be redirected to the most recent version.

Attribution and Usage Policies

Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by license, or by written agreement of HMC, requires credit to the copyright holder.

Author(s) and others are permitted to share, post and redistribute articles and do not require further permission from HMC, provided there are no alterations of the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification. Authors and others are not granted permission to modify materials or use them for commercial purposes.

Rights for Authors and HMC

As further described in our submission agreement (the Submission Agreement), in consideration for publication of the article, the author(s) retain copyright to the material and have agreed to license it BY-NC-ND 4.0. Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. All articles in HMC are open access can be distributed under the creative commons license.