Responsibilities of authors
General:
- The authors must confirm that the submitted manuscript is the original work of the authors and not published/sent for publication/submission elsewhere.
- The authors must confirm that the manuscript will not be submitted elsewhere until the editorial process is completed.
- Competing interests/conflict of interest: The authors must declare all financial and non-financial competing interests. Non-financial competing interests include a declaration of political, personal, religious, ideological, academic, and intellectual competing interests. Authors from pharmaceutical companies or other commercial organizations that sponsor clinical trials should declare these as competing interests on submission. They should adhere to Good Publication Practice guidelines for pharmaceutical companies (GPP3) in medical publications.
- If any part of the manuscript contains previously published content (figures/tables), authors should submit a statement of permission to reproduce the material signed by the author(s) and publishers concerned.
- Authors should ensure that if the current study's Abstract has been published in any conferences, it is either not under a copyright or that the embargo period is over. If the Abstract is under copyright protection from the publishers, permission should be sought for re-using the material.
- The author(s) of a manuscript agree that if the manuscript is accepted for publication, the published article will be copyrighted using a Creative Commons "Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike" license. This license allows the author(s) to retain the copyright but also allows others to freely copy, distribute, and display the copyrighted work and derivative works based upon it under certain specified conditions.
Responsibilities of Reviewers
Key features of a review include:
Points to be considered in review:
Responsibilities of Editors
- Veterinary World adopts the World Association of Medical Editors' definition of editorial freedom. According to this definition, editorial freedom, or independence, is the concept that editors-in-chief have full authority over the editorial content of their journal and the timing of publication of that content. Journal owners should not interfere in the evaluation, selection, or editing of individual articles either directly or by creating an environment that strongly influences decisions.
- The editors will be guided by COPE's Guidelines for Retracting Articles when considering retracting, issuing an expression of concern about, and issuing corrections pertaining to articles that have been published (https://publicationethics.org/node/19896/revisions/66386/view).
- The editor shall ensure that the peer review process is fair, unbiased, and timely.
- Articles must be reviewed by at least two external reviewers.
- The editor shall select reviewers who have suitable expertise in the relevant field.
- The editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sex, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
- The editor should use the journal's electronic submission system for all journal communications.
- The editor must not attempt to influence the journal's ranking by artificially increasing any journal metric.
- The editor must protect the confidentiality of all material submitted to the journal and all communications with reviewers, unless otherwise agreed with the relevant authors and reviewers.
- Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.
- The Editorial Board takes responsibility for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts based on the reviewer's evaluation of the manuscript, policies of the journal editorial board and legal restrain acting against plagiarism, libel and copyright infringement.
Statement of ethical approval for studies involving human subjects and/or animals
If your study involves human subjects and/or animals, you need to provide the following:
- Authors must provide the name of the ethical approval committee/Institutional Review Board they have obtained consent from along with approval number/ID.
- Authors should specifically mention if a waiver was obtained for the study and the reason for the waiver. They should confirm that the study was conducted in accordance with Declaration as revised in 2013.
- Authors must state that written informed consent was obtained from the study participants (and the relevant document(s) must be provided when requested by the journal). If verbal informed consent was obtained, the reason(s) for the absence of written consent must be provided.
- Since patients have a right to privacy, identifying information (including patients' images, names, initials, or hospital numbers) should not be included in recordings, written descriptions, or photographs unless the information is essential for scientific purposes. In any case, written informed consent from the patient must be obtained to publish these graphics in print and electronic form. If such consent has not been obtained, personal details of patients in any part of the paper and in any supplementary materials (including illustrations) must be removed before submission.