Ethics Statement 

The Neuma journal adheres to COPE's Code of Conduct and Practice Guidelines (available at http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines). In addition, for the detection of plagiarism and self-plagiarism, the journal uses similarity detection software, in order to identify any violation of the code of conduct. In the case of verifying any lack, the article will be immediately rejected for publication and will proceed as proposed in COPE. 

Plagiarism is considered, even involuntarily, the action of copying, adapting, paraphrasing or using ideas, opinions, theories or any type of intellectual production of another author as if it were their own, omitting the data of the author who exposed it for the first time, published or not. 

Similarly, it is considered self-plagiarism to submit articles that partially or fully reproduce publications or results of previous research, or in the process of simultaneous evaluation in another repository or journal, whether in online or printed media. Translations of own publications are considered self-plagiarism. 

For this reason, the journal urges researchers to make original and totally unpublished contributions, which enrich knowledge in the field of music and music education. The journal guarantees total transparency in the arbitration system, as well as the academic suitability of the evaluators. 

Evaluators 

• Maintain confidentiality throughout the journal's evaluation process;
• Declare conflicts of interest and disabilities;
• Methodically and rigorously evaluate the documents sent to them.
• Respond to requests and submit evaluations on time;
• Notify the editors about any problems present in the documents.
• Must adhere to the evaluation guideline;
• Do not reproduce parts of the articles evaluated in other publications, before the official publication of the article.

Authors 

• They must make unpublished and original contributions. Plagiarism and self-plagiarism will not be tolerated;
• Notify the editors of any errors present in the work in the publication process;
• They must be responsible for all content in their shipments, providing a contact email address;
• Notify editors of any conflict of interest;
• Notify the editors about the funding received to carry out the work;
• Indicate if the article is the product of a thesis or is hosted in a repository;
• Make all communication with the editors through the magazine platform or official email (revistaneuma@utalca.cl).

Editors 

• Maintain confidentiality of the documents received;
• Maintain quality standards and good practices in the publication;
• Evaluate documents objectively according to an evaluation guideline;
• Guarantee impartiality, regarding the evaluation and publication process;
• Guarantee compliance with international standards of editorial ethics in all processes of the journal;
• Commit to maintaining fluid and timely communication with authors and evaluators.

Evaluation guideline (link to the file)