Confilict of Interest Policy

Authors are required to declare any conflict of interest that may affect their research and their manuscript. Editors and reviewers are required to declare any conflict of interest, that may affect their judgement when deciding if a submission is worth publishing and to withdraw from handling such manuscript. Such conflict of interest include funding, personal relationships, working in competing labs or research, recent collaboration with authors/reviewers/editors, etc.
Examples of conflicts of interest might include the following, although it is not an exhaustive list:

1. Having received fees for consulting.

2. Having received research funding.

3. Having received funds reimbursing you for attending a related symposium, or talk.

4. If there are other interests whom the reasonable reader might feel have affected your research you may also declare them.

Additional Information

You may find the following useful resources to refer to for more information on Conflict of Interest policies, existing codes of practices and more general good practice in relation to journal publication ethics:
View the Guidelines published on good publication by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

If no conflict exist,. Please state that  "The Author(s) declare that there no conflict of interest" For guidance on conflict of interest statements.  View the guidelines published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).