ARI follows the COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers. Furthermore, in accordance with ICMJE’s Recommendations for the conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of scholarly work in medical journals, authors, reviewers, and editors are recommended to duly follow best-practice guidelines on ethical behavior.

In line with ICMJE Recommendations, credit for authorship requires (1) significant contributions to the conception and design or the obtaining and execution, analysis and synthesis, or interpretation of the data; (2) the drafting of the article or critical revising to manifest the intellectual content; (3) obtaining the final approval of the version to be published; and (4) taking the full accountability for all aspects of the work and undertaking the commitment that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the article are appropriately investigated and resolved. If all four components are fulfilled in preparing the manuscript, the authorship credit is assigned. All persons who provided substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript (such as technical help, writing and content editing assistance, language editing, and general support) but who do not meet the criteria for authorship must not be listed as an author; however, their contribution should be acknowledged. The corresponding author must verify that all coauthors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication. In line with COPE guidelines, ARI as the publisher requires written confirmation from all authors indicating their agreement with any proposed changes in authorship of submission(s) or published item(s). More specifically, this agreement prevents any future disputes among the co-authors as it is not the journal editor’s responsibility to resolve authorship disagreements and arguments. A change in authorship of a published article can only be possible through publication of an Erratum or Correction. Authors are recommended to follow "The international standards for authors" outlined by COPE.

Regarding hazards, human, and animal ethics, if the work was carried out using chemicals, procedures or equipment with unusual hazards inherent in their use, the authors must clearly identify these in the manuscript. If the work involves the use of animals or human participants, the authors should reflect their procedure compliance with relevant laws, institutional guidelines, consent, and approval of institutional committee(s) besides the statement that study protocol conforms to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki. In studies involving animal experimentations, all criteria highlighted in the "Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals" should be addressed. Authors are also required to include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human participants. The privacy rights of human participants must always be observed. Regarding deceased patients, the corresponding author of study can request the informed consent from their relatives, family, or guardian (for children and minors).

Authors must ensure that they have prepared and submitted only original works, and if they have used the research and quotation of others, accurate and proper citations must have been provided throughout the whole manuscript. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the work reported in the manuscript should also be cited. In fact, we conceptualize originality as a degree to which a scientific finding provides unique knowledge that is not available in previous research. Plagiarism comprises a wide spectrum of misconducts, from "passing off" another's paper as the author's own, to copying or paraphrasing significant parts of another's paper (without proper citation and quotation marks), and to ascribing the results elicited from other research to authors’ own manuscript. We do not tolerate plagiarism in all its types which constitute unethical publishing behavior. Particularly, since literature reviews mostly rely on the published work of others, it is especially important to stay away from inadvertent plagiarism by copying and pasting sections of text from the original source.

Moreover, research fraud which constitutes the examples of fabrication, falsification in proposing, performing, or reviewing research or the final report of research results cannot be tolerated. Fabrication is making up data or results and falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or altering or eliminating data or results such that the research is not precisely represented in the research record. Both of these misconducts are fraudulent acts and fundamentally alter the integrity, cohesion, and coherence of research. However, research misconduct should not be misinterpreted as honest error or differences of viewpoints. Therefore, articles must be written based on original data, and the use of falsified or fabricated data is strongly prohibited. COPE’s flowcharts and guidelines are addressed in cases in which any of these two misconducts are spotted. Submitted manuscripts which are found to contain either fabricated or falsified data will confront with the data fabrication/falsification sanction.