Peer review process

Once received, the manuscripts will undergo a process of review, arbitration, and opinion, being sent to an Associate Editor who in turn will select two reviewers specialized in the subject matter of the manuscript. The opinion process of the peer reviewers strictly preserves their anonymity.

From the editors. The acceptance of a manuscript to start the review process will be based exclusively on academic pertinence, originality, and relevance without regard to gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, nationality, political opinions, institutional affiliation, or seniority of the authors. Manuscripts will be treated confidentially. Editors are not allowed to disclose information about manuscripts (content, status in the publication process, opinion of reviewers, or final decision) or the identity of reviewers. Editors agree, under penalty of penalty, not to use unpublished information obtained from a manuscript under review for their benefit. The editors will excuse themselves from reviewing manuscripts in which there may be a conflict of interest, whether due to competition, collaboration, or another previous relationship with the authors. Editors undertake to respond as quickly as possible to all accusations or suspicions of misconduct raised by readers, reviewers, or other editors. The directors of the Cuadernos de Herpetología may request an investigation by the Asociación Civil Herpetológica Argentina to solve the problem. Each complaint will be taken into account and may be submitted to the Asociación Civil Herpetológica Argentina, even if it was discovered years after its publication.

Of the reviewers. All manuscripts received for review are confidential and as such the reviewers are not allowed to disclose information about them, discuss them with third parties or use information obtained from them for their benefit. The reviews must be objective and the reviewers must not be influenced by their possible relationship, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, nationality, political opinions, institutional affiliation, or seniority of the authors. If there is any ethical impediment for the reviewers to proceed with the manuscript, they should decline the invitation. Any reviewer who finds any indication of falsification of data, plagiarism, or other misconduct must inform the editors who will proceed with the investigation process in this regard.

From the authors. All authors are equally responsible for the content of the article and the veracity of the data presented. Fraudulent or deliberately inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Any conflict of interest on the part of the authors concerning the editors and/or possible reviewers must be indicated at the time of sending the manuscript to be considered by the Asociación Civil Herpetologica Argentina or the Editorial Committee. When submitting a manuscript, the authors declare that they have followed all the legal regulations corresponding to their country of residence and have obtained the necessary permits from the corresponding authorities in the cases of experimentation and/or collection. The review and opinion process The review and opinion process contemplates 4 main correlative stages: 1) preliminary evaluation of the topic, quality, and presentation of the manuscript (by the Director/Editor); 2) evaluation of the content of the manuscript by 2 external referees and the Associate Editor; 3) opinion of the referees and the Associate Editor indicating that the work has been: (i) rejected without options to send it again; (ii) evaluated with major corrections that will allow their revision by the authors who will be able to resubmit the corrected manuscript for a new round of revision; (iii) evaluated with minor changes that must be incorporated by the authors before the definitive acceptance of the article and (iv) accepted without changes. The author(s) will be informed –within an estimated period of 4 weeks– about the results of the evaluation and the steps to follow if the manuscript is evaluated with corrections or accepted for publication.