Terms of Use
Responsible use of the CIJFMR website, scholarly content and online services.
Use CIJFMR lawfully, accurately and responsibly.
These terms apply when a person reads Journal content, uses an account, submits or reviews work, or interacts with another CIJFMR online service.
Visitors may use the CIJFMR website for lawful research, reading, submission, review, and journal administration. Users must provide accurate account information, protect credentials, respect confidentiality, avoid unauthorised access, and refrain from uploading malicious, unlawful, deceptive, infringing, or privacy-invasive material. Automated access must follow published interfaces and reasonable rate limits. Publication on the website does not create professional, legal, financial, or medical advice. Article reuse is governed by the licence shown with each article. These terms do not override rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Scholarly services must not be misused
The website may provide articles, submissions, manuscript tracking, policies, calls, issue archives, reviewer resources and contact services.
- Do not violate applicable law or intellectual-property rights
- Do not upload malicious software or attempt unauthorised access
- Do not interfere with security, availability or reasonable technical limits
- Do not impersonate another person or submit fraudulent information
- Do not manipulate submissions, review, invoices or publication records
- Do not misuse confidential manuscripts or overload the service through disruptive scraping
Submission creates responsibilities, not a right to publication
A submission is governed by the Author Guidelines, Submission Guidelines, Peer Review Policy, Publication Ethics, Copyright and Licensing Policy, and any other requirement displayed for the workflow. Submission does not create a right to external review, acceptance or publication.
- Names, affiliations and authorship information must be accurate
- Declarations, funding and conflict information must not mislead
- Users must protect their credentials and not access another account
- False identities must not be used to influence editorial decisions
- The Journal may protect its systems by suspending compromised access
Article licences and Journal rights are distinct
The licence displayed on a scholarly article governs reuse of that article. Third-party items within it may carry additional restrictions. CIJFMR's website design, code, logo, branding, administrative content and databases are not assumed to fall under an article's Creative Commons licence.
Access is maintained carefully but cannot be uninterrupted
Maintenance, security incidents, hosting failures, software updates, networks or circumstances outside the Journal's control can interrupt availability. Links to independent websites are provided for convenience or scholarly reference and do not necessarily indicate endorsement.
Published articles express their authors' scholarly conclusions unless expressly stated otherwise. Journal content is not automatically personalised legal, financial, medical, psychological, investment or other regulated professional advice.
Administrative or typographical website content may be corrected when necessary. Changes to a scholarly version of record follow the Corrections and Withdrawals Policy.
Serious misuse may lead to restricted access
CIJFMR may restrict or suspend access where credible evidence indicates security abuse, fraud, harassment, repeated misuse, manipulation of peer review, intellectual-property infringement or another serious breach. The response should be proportionate to the risk and available evidence.
Personal information is handled under the Privacy Policy. Users should report suspected credential compromise or fraudulent Journal communications promptly.
Use only an authorised fee and payment route
Payment should be made only through an official Journal channel after the applicable fee, currency, waiver or refund terms, invoice and destination have been displayed. A charge cannot guarantee peer review, acceptance or publication.
CIJFMR may update website functions, submission procedures, publication workflows, article categories and policies where reasonably necessary. Material policy changes should be dated and made publicly accessible.
Unverified legal facts remain unpublished
The governing law and formal legal-publisher particulars will be displayed only after verification and approval. No jurisdiction or entity is inferred from the website domain, hosting location or an administrator's private draft.
Protect the Journal's scholarly and technical integrity.
Use official routes, provide accurate information and report suspicious communications or account activity.