1. Submission System

All manuscripts should be submitted through the "Author" button on the upper page of this website.

After registration, the author can select the journal Science Footprint in the editing system to complete the submission.

2. Open Access

Science Footprint adhere to open-access publishing, and all articles in Science Footprint are published under a Creative Commons BY.

After the author pays a one-time Article Processing Charges (APC), others have free and unrestricted access to the full article published in Science Footprint.

Submission of the paper to Science Footprint means that the author accepted and complied with the above policies.

3. Research Ethics

In reporting studies involving human, human materials, human tissue, or human data, the author must state that the study has followed the rules of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki (as amended in 2013) and the relevant provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki.

The SFP strongly recommends that the author pre-register clinical trials in the International Clinical Trials Register, or cite the registration in the "Methods" part.

4. Moral Statements

Science Footprint editors perform. a rigorous peer review process and adopt strict ethical and academic standards to review the manuscript. to ensure the fairness and seriousness of the manuscript. review.

When the author(s) submits a manuscript to the SFP, the author(s) needs to declare no academic misconduct such as plagiarism, data tampering, and duplicate submission, otherwise, the author shall be responsible for all consequences arising therefrom.

The manuscript does not involve any political discrimination, country discrimination, racial discrimination, religious discrimination, gender discrimination, physical disability discrimination, cultural discrimination, administrative regional discrimination, violence and other content that is contrary to public morals.

5. Plagiarism Check

The Journal adopts a zero-tolerance policy for academic misconduct.

SFP will use anti-plagiarism checking software to check the duplicates of the submitted manuscripts. If the manuscript is plagiarized, it will be rejected immediately.

For the published paper, if academic misconduct is found (such as data tampering and image manipulation), Science Footprint will withdraw the paper immediately, and the author shall assume full responsibility.

6. Privacy Policy

All data collected by the Science Footprint on the Web site is protected against unauthorized access by third parties.

Science Footprint will do its best to protect user privacy through appropriate security technology and physical safeguards.

7. Original publication

Science Footprint do not publish papers that have been published in other journals except for the Chinese papers published in SFP journals.

Science Footprint do not consider papers currently being reviewed in other journals.

8. Withdrawal

Science Footprint attaches great importance to the standardization of academic activities and the integrity of the record of academic achievements, ensuring as far as possible that academic papers are traceable and unchanged historical records after publication.

For the published papers, due to the academic misconduct of the author (such as data tampering and image manipulation), as well as manuscript withdrawals due to the author's own reasons, Science Footprint shall not compensate the author for the economic losses and the APC.