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- Instruction to Authors: article types, manuscript preparation and the submission checklist.
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- Submit Article: how to send your manuscript to the editorial office.
- Journal Policies: open access, licensing, plagiarism, authorship and retractions.
- Peer Review Process: what happens to a manuscript after submission.
- Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
- FAQs: quick answers about submitting, fees, review times and copyright.
Standards and guidance
- Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): guidance and flowcharts for publication ethics.
- ICMJE Recommendations: authorship, conflicts of interest and the conduct of medical research.
- EQUATOR Network: reporting guidelines such as CONSORT, PRISMA, STROBE and ARRIVE.
- ORCID: a free, persistent identifier for every researcher.
- Crossref: DOIs and reference linking for scholarly content.
- Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: the open-access licence used for our articles.
- Think. Check. Submit.: a checklist for choosing a trusted journal.
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