DISCLOSURE POLICY

Disclosure Statement for Authors

At the end of the text, under a subheading “Disclosure Statement”, all authors must disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three (3) years of beginning the work submitted that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding.  Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest possible stage.

Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest may exist when an author or the author's institution has a financial or other relationship with other people or organizations that may inappropriately influence the author’s work.   A conflict can be actual or potential and full disclosure to the Journal is the safest course.  All submissions to the Journal must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest.  The Journal may use such information as a basis for editorial decisions and may publish such disclosures if they are believed to be important to readers in judging the manuscript.  A decision may be made by the Journal not to publish on the basis of the declared conflict.    

Role of the Funding Source

If funding has been provided, all sources of funding must be declared. This declaration (with the heading 'Role of the funding source') should be made in a separate section of the text and placed before the References. Authors must describe the role of the study sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication.  

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