Ethical Code for Authors

Authors submitting manuscripts to Ẹ̀dá Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences are responsible for ensuring that their submissions meet the journal's scholarly and ethical requirements.

Authors must:

• Submit original work.
• Ensure that the manuscript is not under consideration by another journal.
• Obtain approval from all listed authors before submission.
• Accurately represent research findings and evidence.
• Disclose relevant conflicts of interest.
• Disclose sources of financial or material support.
• Obtain appropriate ethical approval where human participants are involved.
• Obtain informed consent where applicable.
• Protect sensitive or identifying participant information.
• Declare substantive use of artificial intelligence tools.
• Ensure that AI-assisted content, references, quotations, data, and interpretations are verified.
• Obtain permission to reproduce copyrighted material where required.

Authorship

Authorship must reflect genuine intellectual contribution to the conception, design, execution, analysis, or writing of the research.

All listed authors must approve the final manuscript and consent to its submission. Individuals whose contributions do not justify authorship should be acknowledged, with their permission.

Requests to add, remove, or reorder authors after submission must include a written explanation and the signed consent of all authors. Where the journal cannot resolve an authorship dispute through documentary evidence, the matter may be referred to the relevant institutions.