Appeals and complaints

he below procedure applies to appeals to editorial decisions, complaints about the failure of processes such as long delays in handling papers and complaints about publication ethics. In the first instance, the complaint should be handled by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal and/or the Editor who dealt with the paper. If they are the subject of the complaint, please approach the in-house publishing contact. Please, check the contacts page on the journal homepage. If no publishing contact is identified, send the query to [email protected]