FOR AUTHORS

F O R   A U T H O R S

SYNOPSIS

Editorial Policy and Review Process
Editorial Board
Roles of the Associate and Senior Editors

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submission Letter and Method of Transmission

Manuscript Preparation

Disclosure Statement

Submission Checklist

Publication Fee/Open Access

Copyright

Pre-Press/Proofs

 

POLICIES

Overview of Policies on Manuscript Submission

Policy regarding the NIH Public Access Policy mandate (PubMed Central)

Policy on the Use of  Animals

Policy on the Use of  Human Subjects

Policy on Ethics

Financial Disclosure

Information for Reviewers

REPRINTS

Offprints and Reprints 

Experiments involving human subjects must conform with the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (United States Office of Science and Technology Policy) and in the Declaration of Helsinki and be approved by a local Institutional Review Board.  Approval by the latter must be indicated in the text.

• Declaration of Helsinki. (Adopted in 1964 by the 18th World Medical Assembly in Helsinki, Finland, and revised by the 29th World Medical Assembly in Tokyo in 1975.) In: The Main Issue in Bioethics Revised Edition. Andrew C. Varga, ed. New York: Paulist Press, 1984.

• Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects; Notices and Rules. Federal Register. Vol. 56. No. 117 (June 18, 1991), pp 28002-28007.

• Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) Human Subject Protections (www.ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov)

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