Term 15. Submission process

1. To submit a manuscript to the Journal, the author needs to register an account and log in to submit the article online through Make a Submission or contact tapchikhoahoc@dthu.edu.vn for Account registration.

2. Manuscripts that are not qualified as stated in Term 14 will be returned to the corresponding author for revision and improvement. Time for editing is up to 30 days from the Secretariat’s emailing date. The article received time will be counted from the date the Secretariat receives the qualified manuscript as stated in Term 14.

3. Fee payment (if any) will be announced after the manuscript is accepted and sent to the reviewer.

Term 16. Process of receiving articles

1. After receiving the author's manuscript, the Secretariat will examine and review the formal requirements and examine ethical issues in the research. Articles that do not meet the needs of this Regulation will be sent back to the author for editing. The Secretariat will transfer articles that meet the requirements to the Editor-in-Chief (or authorized Deputy Editor-in-Chief in charge of the journal) to assign a member of the Editorial Council to appraise the content for submission preliminarily. Decide whether or not to submit the article for review. If so, editorial board members invite reviewers and monitor the entire process of reviewing and editing the manuscript.

2. If the manuscript is rejected, the Secretariat will notify the author within 07 days from the date on which the Secretariat receives the manuscript that meets the requirements—criteria in  Term 14  of this Regulation.

Term 17. Policy on article review

1. The journal applies a two-way closed review process: The reviewer does not know the author's information and vice versa.

2. Each draft article submitted to the Journal will be reviewed by a member of the Editorial Board and reviewed by at least one independent reviewer who is not a member of the Editorial Board.

3. The time for the author to receive the comments of the reviewers and the decision of the Editorial Board of the Journal on the results of the article does not exceed 90 days from the date the Secretariat receives the manuscript for publication. Meet the regulations of the Journal.

Term 18. Process of article review

1. For draft articles to be included in the review process, members of the Editorial Council shall decide to invite reviewers to meet the requirements specified in Clause 1, Term 12, and Clause 2, Term 17 of this Regulation.

2. Reviewers comment on the manuscript according to the prescribed standards and time.

3. based on the reviewer's advice and personal evaluation of members of the Editorial Council, members of the Editorial Council shall decide according to one of the options specified in Clause 2 of this Article... The decision of the members of the Editorial Board is not necessarily consistent with the reviewer's opinion.

4. Members of the Editorial Council provide feedback to the author(s) of the review of the manuscript, together with the reviewer(s) and the editorial board member(s) themselves. (if any). Suppose the decision of an editorial board member falls under points b and c of Clause 2 of this Article. In that case, the editorial council member should set an appropriate period for the author to edit and supplement the article as required. Required, but in no case shall exceed 90 days, except with the consent of the Editor-in-Chief.

5. The author edits and supplements the manuscript at the request of reviewers and members of the editorial council. The author is required to write a “feedback explanation” for the reviewer(s) and members of the Editorial Board (if any), which indicates the contents of the article have been edited and supplemented as required. Requirements, the content that the author wishes to preserve, and the reasons explaining this reservation.

6. In case the article falls under Point b, Clause 2 of this Article, members of the Editorial Council, based on the author's feedback(s), make a decision to accept the article or request the author to continue editing. , complete the article.

7. In case the article falls under Point c, Clause 2 of this Article, a member of the Editorial Council shall, based on the author's response(s), choose one of the following options:

a) A council member evaluates the edited and supplemented article and decides to accept or reject the article or to request the author to continue to edit and complete the article.

b) Panel members send the revised draft of the article and the author's response(s) to the original reviewer for re-examination of the paper. The article review process starts from scratch.

c) The council member sends the revised or supplemented draft of the article to another reviewer for re-examination of the article. The article review process starts from scratch.

8. All articles that have completed the peer-review process and are accepted for publication will go through the pre-publishing editorial process. The Secretariat is responsible for organizing the editing and publishing of the Journal.

Term 19. Regulations on recording, adding, deleting, and changing the order of author names

1. The group of authors agrees on the order in which the authors' names are written in the article. In which there is a contact author responsible for contacting the Journal while submitting the article draft, reviewing, and publishing the article. The contact author is also responsible for providing feedback to readers and the Journal after the article's publication. In case it is necessary to acknowledge each author's contribution to the article, the authors' contribution can be presented in the article.

2. The addition, deletion, or change of the order of the author's name must be done before the manuscript is published.

3. After the article has been published on the Journal's Online Publication Management System or has been published in the Print Journal version, there will not be any request for addition, deletion, or change. The order in which author names are accepted.

4. To request the addition, deletion, or change of the order of author names, the contacting author of the article must submit a written request for addition, deletion, or change of the order of author names to the Editorial Board, in which only clear:

a) Reasons for adding, deleting, or changing the order of author names.

b) Written confirmation (email, signed letter) from all co-authors confirming that they agree to the addition, deletion, or change in the order of author names.

c) In case of the addition or deletion of an author's name, the contacting author needs to provide additional written confirmation (email, signed letter) from the added or deleted author(s) confirming that they agree to the addition or deletion of that name.

5. At the proposal of the Head of the Secretariat, the Editor-in-Chief decides to agree or disagree with the request to add, delete or change the order of author names. The Editor-in-Chief's decision is final. Other requests of the author(s) regarding this decision will not be considered.

Term 20. Regulations on cancellation of articles in the process of publication

1. the Editor-in-Chief applies Article cancellation to articles that are in the process of being published but are found to violate one of the following errors:

a) a severe error changes the conclusion of the article.

b) The submission coincides with another published article.

c) The author commits ethical violations in research and publication of scientific work, such as submitting articles to multiple journals simultaneously, forging copyright claims, plagiarism, data manipulation, and false claims. Similar case.

2. Where the cancellation of an article is applied to a piece that is in the process of being published and has been published on the Journal's Online Publication Management System, the entire content of that article in the HTML or/and PDF format will be withdrawn from the Journal's Online Publication Management System and replaced by an HTML or/and PDF page with the caption “Article Canceled: [Article Title]".

Term 21. Regulations on withdrawal of published articles

1. Withdrawal of published articles is applied to correct errors in the submission and publication process caused by the author and co-authors violating research ethics and scientific publication, such as submitting articles to multiple journals simultaneously, forgery in copyright claims, plagiarism, data manipulation, etc.

2. The withdrawal of a published article is done at the request of the Author and/or co-author of the article; or Editor-in-Chief at the appeal of members of the scientific community. Article retraction policy is applied to a published report, and the following measures will be implemented:

a) For the Print Journal edition: A note titled “Article Withdrawn: [Article Title]” will be published in the next issue of the Journal and listed in the table of contents of that publication.

b) For the Online Journal version: A screen with the caption “Article Withdrawn: [Article Title]” along with a link to the original of the article (PDF format) will be displayed. Displayed on the Journal's Online Publication Management System. The original article's content (PDF version) will not be changed, but a watermark is written on each page that says “Article has been retracted”. The HTML format version of the original article (if any) will be withdrawn from the Journal's Online Publication Management System.

Term 22. Regulations on the removal of published articles for legal reasons

1. The Editor-in-Chief applies the removal of published articles in the following special cases:

a) That article clearly violates the provisions of law.

b) The article should be removed at the request of a court or other law enforcement agency.

2. Where the exclusion of published articles is applied, the information about the article including title, author's name and working unit will still be retained on the Journal's Online Publication Management System. Publication, but the entire text of the article will be replaced by a screen that says, “This article has been removed for legal reasons”. The editor-in-chief decides on the content of the detailed commentary for the reason for the article's removal.

Term 23. Regulations on replacing published articles

1. The Editor-in-Chief applies the replacement of published articles when the article poses a severe risk to human health if readers follow the article's content.

2. The replacement of the published article is made at the request of the original article's authors and with the approval of the Editor-in-Chief. Original article authors must request in writing to state their wish to withdraw the erroneous original article and replace it with a new, revised version.

3. The edited or supplemented article must go through the review process specified in Article 18 of this Regulation.

4. Where article substitution is applied to a published article, the following measures will be implemented:

a) For the Print Journal edition: A note titled “Article retracted: [Original article title] and replaced by the following article: [Alternate article title]", together with the full text of the new replacement article, will be published in the issue closest to the time the replacement policy is applied and listed in the table of contents of that issue.

b) For the Online Journal version: A screen with the caption “Article retracted: [Original article title] and replaced by the following article: [Alternate article title]” , along with a link to the revised, supplemented version of the article (in PDF format) will be displayed on the Journal's Online Publication Management System. The first page of the replacement article will contain the history of the paper, including the date of receipt, the acceptance date of the original and the replacement paper, and a description of why the article was rejected.

c) The PDF version and HTML format version (if any) of the original article will be withdrawn from the Journal's Online Publication Management System.

Term 24. Regulations on correction of published articles

The Journal allows the correction of minor errors that do not affect the interpretations and conclusions of articles published in the Journal through the issuance of a sentence. At the request of the Secretariat, the Editor-in-Chief decides whether or not to allow the publication of the revision attached to the original article.