|
Our Policies
STATEMENT OF TRANSMITTAL
All statements and opinions are the responsibility of the authors. With submission of the manuscript, a statement of transmittal must indicate that all authors have participated in the research, and have reviewed and agree with the content of the article.
COPYRIGHT TRANSFER
Manuscripts are received with the understanding that they are submitted solely to Paediatrics & Child Health, and that none of the material contained in the manuscript has been published previously or is under consideration for publication elsewhere, with the exception of abstracts. The publisher reserves copyright on all published material, which then may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. Upon providing an author with page proofs prior to publication, the author is asked to transfer all rights, title, interest and copyright ownership in said work to Pulsus.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
Paediatrics & Child Health and the Canadian Paediatric Society require authors to disclose any and all potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest which include but are not limited to specific financial interest, relationship and affiliations relevant to the topic(s) discussed in the submitted manuscript. These could be employment/affiliation, grants or funding, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or option, expert testimony, royalties, or patent files, received or pending. This policy is not intended to prevent authors with financial or other interests from publishing their work. However, it is the journal’s responsibility to provide reviewers and readers with full disclosure to ensure scientific integrity. Disclosures will be published with accepted articles if deemed appropriate by the editors. If no potential, perceived or actual conflicts are disclosed, a statement to that effect will be published.
ETHICS OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
If human subjects are involved, the text must indicate that all gave informed consent and that the protocol was approved by the institutional ethics review committee. We do not publish animal research.
INFORMED CONSENT
Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients’ names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published.
Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note.
PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE PUBLISHED MATERIAL
Authors are responsible to obtain written permission from the publisher and the author to reproduce any previously published work.
Last updated: September 2008
|
|
