RESEARCH ETHICS STATEMENT

Research Ethics Statement

All manuscripts involving living subjects (human or animal) must be accompanied by an explicit and adequate Ethics Statement. The editorial team will review each of these statements. Manuscripts submitted without a clear and appropriate statement will be returned and will not be processed until this requirement is met.

Important for Double-Blind Peer-Reviewed Journals: To maintain reviewer anonymity, do not include the Ethics Statement in the main manuscript file (e.g., in the Methods section). Instead, complete a dedicated section in your online submission system. This information will not be shared with reviewers.

Authors should include the following points in the ethical statement (if applicable) when submitting a paper:

  1. Institutional Approval
  • Name and Location of the Ethics Committee/Research Ethics Review Board (e.g., IRB/REC) that provided approval.
  • Approval Number/ID issued (if applicable).
  • If your study is exempt (received a waiver) or does not require consent, state this clearly and provide a reason.
  1. Research Involving Animals
  • Specify which institutional and/or national Animal Care and Use Guidelines were followed during the experiment.
  1. Research Involving Humans
  • Confirm that the research was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and all applicable local legal/statutory requirements.
  • State that Written Informed Consent was obtained from all participants (or from their parent/legal guardian, for participants under 16 years of age).
  1. Consent for Publication and Identifiable Data
  • If your research contains identifiable human subjects (including photographs, video recordings, detailed case histories, or tissue donors), you must confirm that consent for publication of the identifiable data has been obtained from all relevant individuals (or their legal guardians).
  • Identifiable Individual Data: This data (such as individual case histories, photographs, or genetic pedigrees) must not be published without the explicit consent of the individual (or their next of kin, if deceased).
  • Special Donor Acknowledgement: If you use identifiable material for which consent is not possible (e.g., the case of HeLa cells), the origin and lack of such consent must be acknowledged in the manuscript.
  1. Clinical Trials
  • Articles reporting Clinical Trials must include the Trial Registration Number at the end of the abstract.

 

Consent for Publication (Author Statement)

Authors are required to retain evidence of Consent for Publication. To maintain anonymity, you do not need to send us proof of this consent. Instead, you must certify that all necessary consents have been obtained in the Mandatory Author Declaration upon submission.