Editorial policies

The journal is published in accordance with the principles described in the Committee on Publication Ethics-COPE.

We recommend that you read the flowcharts of the Committee on Publication Ethics-COPE for bad practices in writing articles, plagiarism, changes of authors, etc.

Copyright Statement

All the contents of the Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Journal are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported License for use and distribution.

Allows non-commercial use of published articles or part of their content as long as the source is cited. This circumstance must be expressly stated in this way when necessary.

Authors should not include information extracted from other published or unpublished works in their articles without proper citation of the source. The author must cite and give adequate attribution to those publications that have influenced and determined the nature of the article to be published in order to guide the reader to previous works that help them understand the published work.

If an article is accepted for publication, the author has the right to have it published.

The main author has the right to withdraw his article from the evaluation process at any time without affecting its consideration for future publications.

The authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

a. The authors  guarantee the journal the right to be the first work publication as well as licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License that allows others to share the work with a recognition of the authorship of the work and the initial publication in this journal.
b. Authors may separately establish additional agreements with the Editorial Committee for the publication of their work or a version of it in another journal, with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Rights and Duties of the journal

When submitting the article, the authors must confirm that the article has not been published in any type of media before. If it has been published in another journal, the document from the institution or medium where it was published must be attached, addressed to the journal Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental, authorizing its publication.

The Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering magazine is attached to and promotes respect for the rules of the Spanish language (as dictated by the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language. RAE).

Policies regarding the contribution of authors

All authors of a manuscript must have contributed significantly to the development of the research, in all or most of its phases.

To protect the integrity of the authorship of the work, only professionals who have collaborated in the research or project and preparation of the article will be listed as co-authors. The main author attests to the fact that he has included all the co-authors of the work when submitting the request for publication. 

All co-authors must have reviewed the article, agree with the order of their names, with the content and final form, and be in a position to publicly defend its content. When submitting the request for publication of the article, the Editorial Committee assumes that this has been fulfilled, under the moral responsibility of the sending author. 

The partial contributions to only some of the phases accredit the inclusion of their names in the Acknowledgments section, but do not justify the co-authorship of the article. 

In the Acknowledgments section the authors must attribute the respective credits to all the people and institutions that have contributed to the research, including students. Likewise, the sources of financing or logistical support that made their work possible must be recognized.

The author should not submit changes to the content of their work after it has been accepted and returned to them for proposed corrections. If there is a compelling reason to make changes, the author must inform the Editorial Committee and this has the authority to approve or not the proposed changes. 

The editors may request the justification of the participation of all the authors in the case of articles with numerous authorship or in other cases where this information is required. 

To allow the replication of the experiments, the authors must make available the information on the materials, data, standards or protocols and the references associated with their research. 

The journal can correct errors detected after publication, if requested by the authors, as long as the results or basic conclusions are not altered, these corrections can be made up to one month after the work is published. If the errors are of a major nature, retractions or misprints may be published on errors that affect the validity of the results obtained, at the discretion of the editors.

Policies regarding the work of arbitrators

The referee must objectively judge the quality of the manuscript on its own merits and respect the intellectual independence of the author or authors. Personal criticism is not appropriate.

Express your opinions and opinions in an objective, precise, clear, truthful and convincing manner, in particular negative judgments, so that editors and authors can understand the basis of your observations.

There can be no conflict of interest between the authors of the manuscript or the people involved (such as family relationships, colleagues, competitors or collaborators between possible referees or editors) and the referees. If a manuscript submitted for review represents a potential conflict of interest or the referee has a personal opinion on it, the manuscript should be returned without delay and without review.

The referee must observe any substantial similarity between the article to be reviewed and any other already published or if he is aware of any similar article submitted to another publication, in either case he must immediately inform the editor.

All the content of an article submitted to arbitration is confidential and property of the authors, it will not be used in any way by the arbitrator, nor will it be exposed in any other way except with the consent of the author and with the appropriate attribution.

Plagiarism detection

The journal opposes plagiarism and other fraudulent practices, so all articles received will undergo an analysis to establish their originality before being sent for peer review and again before being published.

The journal sanctions plagiarism and fraudulent data in the documents, the publication of the same article in more than one journal, copying and using textual information from any document, using data, images and other resources without the authorization of all the natural or legal rights of the work, use information that has not been consulted from the original source by some of the authors of the document, modify or misrepresent the meaning and context of the information contained in other works, as well as any other inappropriate use that alters the integrity of the information.

The plagiarism detection process is carried out in a first moment, by the editors once the article is received, it is also verified that the data, software, figures and tables present in the document clearly indicate its origin.

In the detection of plagiarism, the editors and referees of the journal use the free software Plagiarisma. It can detect plagiarism in more than 190 languages, uses different search engines and supports a large number of document extensions.

If an arbitrator has convincing evidence that an article contains plagiarized content or falsification of research data or knows that it has been published, they should immediately notify the journal management. The editorial committee will communicate with the author and the evidence found will be presented. If it is definitively proven that some type of plagiarism has been committed, the article is withdrawn from the editorial process.