BISTEC adheres to the highest standards of publication ethics. All submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism using professional software. Any manuscript with text similarity exceeding 20% (excluding bibliography) will be rejected without review.

Prohibited practices include:

• Plagiarism (self, verbatim, or mosaic)
• Data fabrication or falsification
• Simultaneous submission to multiple journals
• Undisclosed conflicts of interest
• Unethical treatment of human or animal subjects
• Violations will result in immediate rejection and, in severe cases, a two-year ban on future submissions from all listed authors.