Declaration of ethics and good practices

Rural Family Practice is committed to high standards of ethics and takes all possible measures to prevent fraud and plagiarism. All authors must submit original, unpublished manuscripts and their authorship declaring such characteristics at the time of submitting their works for consideration by the editorial committee. Likewise, the journal is committed to guarantee a fair and objective review of the manuscripts for which it uses the double blind evaluation system.
Declaration of good editorial practices and ethical standards

Authors presenting their articles to the Rural Family Practical Journal must comply with the ethics practices of the publication specifically with regard to authorship, plagiarism of published articles, manipulation of data, transparency in the publication process, use of the conflicts of interest and follow ethical research policies in accordance with the Committee on Ethics in Publication (COPE): http://publicationethics.org/ Manuscripts are reviewed by Plagiarisma plagiarism detection software. Digital indicators of objects The Rural Family Practice magazine makes use of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for the identification and location of its articles.
Item processing costs

Rural Family Practice does not charge for the application, evaluation and publication of the articles submitted. The publication does not generate any cost for authors and readers, since the Andean Health and Development Foundation, Saludesa, assumes the costs related to editing, management and publication. The evaluating peers do not receive any economic compensation for their valuable contribution. The work of all the actors mentioned above is understood as a contribution to the strengthening and growth of the research community in the field of forest sciences.