EDITORIAL POLICY

AUTHORSHIP STATEMENT

Each author should have made sufficient scientific contribution to the article to take public responsibility for the content. Authorship credit should be assigned only on substantial input to:

•           conception and design of the study,

•           analysis and interpretation of data,

•           writing a major portion of the paper,

•           critically revising the paper and

•           final approval of the version to be published.

Authors are listed in the by-line. Individuals who do not meet the criteria for authorship may be listed in the acknowledgments section of the manuscript. Such contributions may include funds collection, recruiting participants, collecting or entering the data, etc.

You can find the Authorship Statement Form here. It must be signed by all authors who participate in manuscript writing and submission.

DUPLICATE PUBLICATION POLICY

Manuscript should not have already been published in whole or in substantial part in any journal or other citable form. Manuscript, or substantial parts of it, must not be submitted to any other journal at the same time. Authors uncertain of what constitutes prior publication should consult with the editor.