The Journal of Academic Value Studies (JAVStudies) requires all manuscripts to include a “Declarations” section in order to ensure transparency, accountability, and compliance with ethical publishing standards.
The Declarations section should include the following components:
Authors must declare that the study was conducted in accordance with scientific and ethical principles and that all sources have been appropriately cited.
Authors must clearly state whether any financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of the article.
Authors must indicate whether artificial intelligence tools were used in the preparation of the manuscript. The use of such tools must comply with principles of transparency, accountability, and academic integrity. Authors remain fully responsible for the content of the manuscript.
Authors must declare whether there are any potential conflicts of interest related to the research, authorship, and/or publication process. If no conflict exists, this must be explicitly stated.
Authors must clearly specify their individual contributions to the study in accordance with the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). The following categories should be used:
Conceptualization, methodology, investigation
(Study design, development of research methodology, and execution of the research process)
Data curation
(Collection, organization, cleaning, and management of research data)
Formal analysis, validation
(Application of statistical, mathematical, or analytical techniques and verification of results)
Software, visualization
(Development or use of software tools and preparation of visual outputs such as figures, tables, or models)
Writing – original draft
(Preparation of the initial version of the manuscript)
Writing – review & editing
(Critical revision, editing, and improvement of the manuscript)
Supervision, project administration
(Overall supervision of the research process and management of the project)
Authors should indicate the names of contributors next to the relevant categories. Each author must have made a meaningful contribution to the study. In this context, each author must have contributed to at least one of the following: conceptualization, methodology, data analysis, writing, or critical revision of the manuscript. Contributions such as technical support, data collection, or supervision alone are not sufficient to qualify for authorship.
Authors may acknowledge individuals or institutions that contributed to the study but do not meet the criteria for authorship. This section may also include information indicating whether the study is derived from a thesis, project, or conference paper.
All statements provided in the Declarations section are the sole responsibility of the authors.