MSA dental journal will follow the COPE guidelines on dealing with any potential misconduct. In order to maintain the research integrity, authors should follow the rules which include:

• Authors should clarify that they has not been submitted the manuscript in more than one journal (duplicate submission).
• Authors should not publish the submitted manuscript in MSA dental journal elsewhere previously as part or full (duplicate publication), unless some new results would be considered. In this situation, authors should clear the re-use of material in order to avoid self-plagiarism.
• Authors should avoid "salami-publishing". It means the authors should not split up the results of a work to publish them in more than one journal.
• Authors should not use data that have been fabricated or manipulated such as images in order to support their conclusions.
• Authors should mention clearly the data, text, or theories by other authors using quotation marks or writing in acknowledgement.
• Authors should permit for using the material that is copyrighted and secured.
• All authors should have consent about the responsible authorities.
• Authors in the submitted manuscript should have sufficient contributions to the scientific work and have responsibility for the results.
• Authors should be informed that any changes in authorship or in the order of the authors in the submitted manuscript in MSA DENTAL JOURNAL would not be considered by this journal after acceptance of the manuscript. But, if all authors have written approval with an explanation in detail about deletion or adding another one(s), this journal will consider the changes.
• Authors should prepare and send to the journal the relevant documents or data to verify the validity of the results.
• Authors should avoid self-plagiarism. It means they do not use their previous own published materials without acknowledgment of the source.
• Authors should use the relevant references inside the manuscript.

If MSA DENTAL JOURNAL finds the potential or suspicion of misconduct, this journal will follow the COPE guidelines. If the journal ensures about the misconduct, this journal will contact the author and request the author to address the issue. After the establishment of the doubt, Editor-in-Chief will follow:

• If the manuscript is under consideration, it may be returned to the author or rejected.
• If the article has been published, it may retract and therefore the reason in detail will be published as a retraction note. Also, this journal may publish an erratum with an explanation in detail.
• Finally, this journal will contact the author's institution.

Copyright and plagiarism:

MSA dental Journal is an open-access journal under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print or link to the full text of articles and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. The manuscript should not be copied or published any materials contained on the journal without the prior written permission of it or the appropriate copyright owner. The authors should sign the author's agreement form and transfer it alongside with submitted manuscript. If authors submit any material to which they do not own the copyright, they will need to secure permission to use the copyrighted materials.