Integrity, originality and authorship
The journal Anales de Teología requires all contributions to be prepared in accordance with the principles of academic integrity, originality, transparency, and authorial responsibility. Authors are responsible for the authenticity of the submitted work, the accuracy of its sources and materials, and compliance with applicable ethical, editorial, and legal standards.
This policy governs manuscript integrity, originality, and the attribution of authorship. Conflicts of interest, ethics approval for research, and the ethical responsibilities of authors, reviewers, and editors are governed by the Editorial Ethics and Independence policy. Permitted and prohibited uses of artificial intelligence are addressed in the Use and Limits of Artificial Intelligence policy.
Originality, unpublished status, and exclusive submission
Manuscripts must be original and unpublished in the form submitted to the journal. They must not have been previously published, in whole or in part, in the same or another language, or be simultaneously under review by another publication.
For translations, the submitted version must be unpublished, and those responsible must hold the necessary permissions whenever the rights to the original text require them.
Works derived from theses, conference papers, or other academic documents may be considered provided that this is disclosed at the time of submission, the manuscript constitutes a substantial reworking, and the original source is properly identified.
The prior deposit of a manuscript version in an institutional repository or preprint server will not in itself be considered prior publication. Its existence must be disclosed during submission, and the relevant link or identifier must be provided. Once the work is published, the deposited version must be updated with the article’s bibliographic reference and DOI.
Plagiarism and other practices contrary to academic integrity
Direct quotations, paraphrases, ideas, arguments, and materials drawn from other people’s work must be identified and attributed in accordance with the journal’s citation guidelines. Reuse of an author’s own previously published content must also be explicitly cited and have a scholarly justification.
The journal considers the following, among other practices, contrary to academic integrity: plagiarism, undisclosed reuse of an author’s own content, redundant publication, unjustified fragmentation of a study, fabrication or falsification of sources or data, misleading alteration of materials, and deliberate misrepresentation of results or conclusions.
Impersonation, submission of false documentation, manipulation of the review process, and inclusion of irrelevant references to artificially inflate citation indicators also constitute breaches of integrity. The journal will neither request nor permit the inclusion of citations that are not relevant to the manuscript.
Authors are responsible for the lawful use of images, tables, charts, photographs, translations, documents, and other materials included in the manuscript, and for obtaining the necessary permissions when these are protected by third-party rights.
Similarity screening
All manuscripts may be screened before publication using the institutional similarity detection system employed by the journal.
The similarity percentage serves only as an indicative measure. It does not automatically establish plagiarism or in itself constitute grounds for rejection. The handling editor is responsible for analyzing the nature, extent, origin, and context of the matches detected.
When matches that may constitute an irregularity are identified, the journal will inform the authors and give them an opportunity to provide an explanation. After examining the available information, the handling editor may allow the process to continue, request revisions, or reject the manuscript.
Suspicions arising after publication will be examined in accordance with the Complaints, Appeals, Corrections, and Retractions policy.
Authorship and contributions
Authorship must be limited to those who have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the work. To qualify as an author, a person must have participated significantly in the conception or development of the research, the construction of its arguments, or the analysis of its sources; contributed to drafting or critically revising the manuscript; approved the submitted version and subsequent revisions; and assumed responsibility for their own contribution and the integrity of the work.
Securing funding, general supervision, administrative support, purely formal editing, or hierarchical position does not in itself provide sufficient grounds for authorship.
Honorary, guest, or courtesy authorship and the exclusion of people who meet the authorship criteria are prohibited. Those who have contributed without meeting these criteria must be mentioned in the acknowledgments, provided they have consented to this.
The person submitting the manuscript acts as the corresponding author and is responsible for confirming that all authors are aware of and approve the manuscript, the author order, the declarations provided, and the versions submitted during the editorial process.
Any request to add or remove authors or change their order after submission must be made in writing, be duly justified, and have the express agreement of everyone involved. The handling editor will decide whether the change is admissible.
Single-author works must not include an author contribution statement. For works with multiple authors, each person’s contribution must be identified using the CRediT taxonomy, including only roles that accurately reflect the work performed. This taxonomy describes contributions but does not replace the authorship criteria.
Use of generative artificial intelligence
Generative artificial intelligence systems cannot be recognized as authors or coauthors because they cannot assume responsibility for a manuscript’s content, approve its publication, declare conflicts of interest, or manage copyright.
Any use of these tools must be disclosed fully and transparently. The disclosure must identify the tool used and its version, where available; explain the purpose and extent of its use; and indicate the sections or tasks in which it was involved.
Authors retain full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, traceability, and legality of the submitted content, including any portions prepared or modified using artificial intelligence. Undisclosed substantive use may be considered a breach of academic integrity and may lead to the measures set out in the Editorial Ethics and Independence policy.
Outputs generated by these systems do not constitute scholarly sources and must not be cited as such. They may be cited only when the system or its outputs are themselves the object of the research and the reference is methodologically necessary.
The specific conditions for using these tools and the obligations applicable to authors, reviewers, and editors are set out in the Use and Limits of Artificial Intelligence policy.
Required declarations
At the time of submission, all contributions must include the following declarations:
- Use of generative artificial intelligence.
- Conflicts of interest.
- Funding.
- Author contributions, only for works with multiple authors.
Conflict of interest declarations must follow the Editorial Ethics and Independence policy. When a relevant conflict exists, the person involved must be identified, its nature described, and, where applicable, the measure taken to manage it indicated.
When the work has received institutional or financial support, the funding body, program or project, and its code or identifier, where one exists, must be identified. Any involvement of the funding body in the research design, preparation of the manuscript, or decision to publish must also be disclosed.
Declarations of ethics approval and informed consent will be required only where applicable, in accordance with the criteria and procedures set out in the Editorial Ethics and Independence policy.
During double-anonymous review, declarations that could identify the authors must be included in a separate file or recorded in the platform’s metadata, rather than in the manuscript sent to reviewers.
All required declarations will be included in the published version in a final section placed before the references.
When there is no information to disclose, the following statements must be used:
Use of generative artificial intelligence: The authors declare that they did not use generative artificial intelligence systems in the preparation of this work.
Conflicts of interest: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest related to the research, authorship, or publication of this work.
Funding: This work received no specific funding from public, commercial, or nonprofit organizations.
