Original work and credit

• Submit only your own work. Name every co-author and every person whose material you use.
• Quote sources accurately, mark quotations clearly, and give the text, chapter and verse, edition or translation.
• Copying another person's words or ideas without credit, including from other websites and from AI tools, is plagiarism.
• Using AI tools for translation, drafting or checking is allowed, but you are responsible for every word, and you must say how the tool was used.

Sources and translation

• Cite the original Sanskrit wherever a principle rests on a text, with a transliteration (IAST) and your translation or a named published one.
• Say which edition or manuscript you used when editions differ.
• Keep three things distinct in your writing: what the text says, how a tradition or commentator reads it, and what you conclude.

Predictions and claims

• A forecast carries its publication date and the exact basis on which it was made: chart, method, ayanāṃśa and data used.
• Forecasts are not edited after the event. Corrections are added as dated notes, and outcomes — hits and misses — are reported openly.
• Do not present astrological interpretation as established fact, and do not claim results the evidence does not support.
• Do not give medical, legal or financial instructions as research findings. Medical astrology and Āyurveda papers must say that readers should consult a qualified practitioner.

Data, charts and privacy

• Use a person's birth data or case details only with their consent, or after removing anything that identifies them.
• Data on public figures and events must come from a named, checkable source, with its reliability noted — for example, a recorded birth time versus a rectified one.
• Never publish a client's private information.

Conflicts of interest

• Declare any financial or personal interest in what you publish — for example, a product, gemstone, remedy, course or consultation that your conclusions would promote.
• Research pages must not be used to advertise products or services. Links to a scholar's professional services appear only in the separate services area of their profile.
• Editors and reviewers step aside from work by close associates or where they have an interest.

Review

• Reviewers keep submissions confidential and do not use unpublished work for their own.
• Reviews judge the sources, reasoning and clarity — never the author's lineage, background or opinions.
• The editors make the final decision and give the author reasons.

Corrections and retractions

• Errors are corrected openly with a dated note on the published page.
• Work found to be plagiarised, fabricated or seriously misleading is retracted with a public notice that remains in place.
• Anyone may report a concern through our Submit Your Concern page or by writing to founder@vedicsiddhanta.in.

Misconduct

Plagiarism, invented data or sources, undeclared conflicts of interest, and misuse of the Centre's name or a Researcher ID are misconduct. The editors will look into any report, hear the scholar's response, and may correct or retract work, and suspend or withdraw a designation. The outcome is recorded on the scholar's profile when a designation is withdrawn.

Corrections log

Every correction, update and retraction issued on the Centre's research, newest first. Each notice also appears on the work itself.

No corrections or retractions have been issued.