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Failure to include the relevant forms during the submission process may lead to your manuscript desk rejection. Incomplete submissions will not be put into the peer-review process until requirements are met.
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Authors are required to complete a compliance checklist relevant to their research and submit it at the point of manuscript submission. The compliance checklist offers a standard way for authors to facilitate their complete and transparent reporting and to aid in their critical appraisal and interpretation of the data. Please download the suitable form from the list below:
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Ethical clearance number
Ethical clearance is required when your manuscript reflects engagement in research that used or gathered personal or sensitive data or involved experiments with humans or animals. As a researcher, you had to obtain ethics approval for such a study from the Committee for Research Ethics & Integrity at your organisation or affiliated institution.
This approval letter, known as an ethical clearance certificate/letter, is submitted with a manuscript as a supplementary file. Include all ethical statements in the Authorship, disclosure statements, copyright, and license agreement form.
Ethics waiver number
Doing research using secondary data or archives which do not involve human or animal subjects, you may be eligible to receive an ethics waiver from the Committee for Research Ethics & Integrity at your organisation or affiliated institution. They will consider:
Research that does not involve human participants e.g., use of trade statistics, GDP figures, theoretical or conceptual studies, use of secondary non-human data, use of historical archives, and has no risk may qualify for Ethics Waiver.
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Authors must promptly notify the journal if they discover any errors in their submitted manuscript that need correction prior to formal acceptance.
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Important Notes
Submitting Authorship Changes
Resources and References
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Authors of a published article must promptly notify the journal by submitting a correction online if they become aware of an error that requires correction. Once approved, a notice of the correction will be published and linked to the original article.
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