Policy on Publishing Integrity
The EPJ journals are committed to the highest standards of publishing integrity and academic honesty. We recognize the important role we play as publishers of scientific record. All published articles are subjected to rigorous peer review. Authors are expected to pursue objectivity and rigour in all aspects of their work. Referees are requested to provide unbiased and constructive comments aimed, whenever possible, at improving the work.
Incidents of potential misconduct should be brought to the attention of the relevant editorial office or Editor-in-Chief, and will be handled with care and deliberation in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE).
The following advice cover some areas where unethical behaviour could potentially arise.
Competing interests statements
Editors, authors and referees should declare declare potentially competing interests of a professional or personal nature that might interfere (or be perceived as interfering) with an objective presentation, interpretation or judgement of a submitted paper.
Authorship
Corresponding authors are requested to ensure that all contributors to the work are listed as authors and are aware of the contents of the article, from submission through publication.
Plagiarism/self-plagiarism/duplicate submissions
Publishing an article that in part or fully reproduces previously published work is an act of misconduct, whether it involves one's own or other people’s work. Authors must always reference all relevant sources and clearly identify if they are re-using text or materials previously published by themselves or others. Permission should be sought and disclosed whenever other people’s materials are used. It is highly unethical to submit the same or substantially similar work simultaneously to more than one journal.
Falsification/fabrication of data
Reporting manipulated or fabricated research data is considered the most extreme case of misconduct in scientific publishing.
EPJ reserves the right not to work with authors who are abusive to staff, referees and/or editors.
EPJ follows the Policies on Publishing Integrity of its co-publishers:
Springer, EDPS, and SIF.
These publishers are all participating members of the non-profit international Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE). All journals in the EPJ family, and the Editors-in-Chief of the journals, are also registered members of COPE.
We encourage journal editors, reviewers, and authors to use the following documents for reference.

Resources
The Springer Policy on Publishing Integrity
Open calls for papers
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EPJ A Topical Collection devoted to the legacy of Peter Schuck
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EPJ A Topical Collection: Radiative Corrections: From Medium to High Energy Experiments
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EPJ A Topical Collection: Short-Range Correlations and the EMC Effect
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EPJ A Topical Issue: Heavy and Super-Heavy Nuclei and Elements: Production and Properties
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EPJ B Topical Issue: Extreme Value Statistics and Search in Biology: Theory and Simulations
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Electron and Positron Interactions and Their Applications: a tribute to Professor Michael Brunger
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Dynamics and Photodynamics: from isolated molecules to the condensed phase
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Quantum Walks and applications
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EPJ E Topical Issue: 50 years of Small Angle Neutron Scattering at the ILL in Grenoble
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Festschrift in honor of Philip (Fyl) Pincus
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Novel Molecular Materials and Devices from Functional Soft Matter
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EPJ H Special Issue: History for Physics: Contextualizing modern developments in the foundations of quantum theory
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EPJ Plus Focus Point Issue: Advances in cryogenic detectors for dark matter, neutrino physics and astrophysics
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EPJ Plus Focus Point Issue: Citizen science for physics: From Education and Outreach to Crowdsourcing fundamental research
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EPJ Plus Focus Point Issue: Focus Point on Higher Derivatives in Quantum Gravity: Theory, Tests, Phenomenology
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EPJ Plus Focus Point Issue: The Magic of Glass
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EPJ Quantum Technology - Open Calls for Papers
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EPJ ST Special Issue Celestial Mechanics: new discoveries and challenges for space exploration
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Application of Fractional-Calculus in Physical Systems
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Machine Learning for quantum many-body systems
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Molecular and Cellular Mechanics
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EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation - Open Calls for Papers