- Publishers and editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.

- In no case shall a journal or its editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.

- In the event that a journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately.

- The journal should have guidelines for retracting or correcting articles when needed.

- Publishers and editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

- All the works presented to Sportis that involve studies with human beings, either organs and / or tissues in isolation, must expressly respect the updated Norms of the Declaration of Helsinki and present a Certificate of approval of the research protocol by an Ethics Committee in the health field provided for in current legislation.

- In the illustrative and text material, the athlete / student should not be indicated, so no names and / or initials should appear. A copy of the authorization of the athlete / student and / or legal guardian must be sent for its publication (informed consent), especially in those cases where people are working with minors.

- Those studies of an experimental nature in living beings must have the authorization of the Bioethics Committee of the institution where the research was carried out, in the "Material and Method" section.

- Sportis Sci J journal follows international standards and codes of ethics (Code of Conduct and the Best Practices Guidelines for Journals Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE).

- Sportis Sci J journal uses Crossref's Similarity Check plagiarism detection program, if the editor observes a high percentage of plagiarism or an excessive percentage of self-citations without being justified, the article will automatically be returned to the author without processing its peer review.