The ethical principles of the journal adhere to the guidelines and recommendations of the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), available at https://publicationethics.org/. In this regard, the Scientific Editor, the Editorial Director, the Editorial Committee, and the Advisory Committee will promote good research practices and may detect any irregularity or misconduct by contributors. The following principles are applied:

Originality: Submitted manuscripts must be original. They must not have been previously published nor be under simultaneous evaluation by other journals. If information is extracted from an external source, the respective citation and reference must be included according to the instructions for authors.

Consent: All authors give their consent for the submission, review, and publication of the manuscript through the authorization letter for publication and distribution and the author letter and declaration of originality that appear in the instructions for authors.

Authorship: All authors who contributed to the research must be included in the original manuscript, without omitting anyone. The order of appearance of the authors will be determined according to their contribution, and it must match the order in the authorization letter for publication and distribution and the author letter and declaration of originality.

Transparency: A double-blind peer review process is applied anonymously, objectively, consistently, and with constructive criticism. Reviewers have no labor, academic, or personal relationship with the authors.

If the Research Journal of Le Cordon Bleu University detects and confirms cases of plagiarism or misconduct in a published article, the Editorial Committee will proceed according to the guidelines and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE - http://publicationethics.org/), which may lead to the retraction of the article.

Editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the aforementioned guidelines. The author(s) will be responsible for the content included in the manuscript.