Changes In JINS Author Disclosure Form

Information about the Author Disclosure Form

This Author Disclosure Form must be signed by the corresponding author for all the manuscript’s authors at the time the manuscript is submitted. This form includes an attestation that the manuscript is original and not under review in another journal, research was conducted in compliance with institutional guidelines, and any potential conflicts of interest have been reported. Such disclosure will not preclude publication, but it is critical because of the potential of negative or positive bias. Potential conflicts of interest include funding sources for the reported study (e.g., a test validation study financially supported by a test publisher, a study supported by an insurance company), personal or family financial interest in a test or product or with a company that publishes a test that is being investigated in the manuscript or competes with a test that is being investigated in the manuscript. Other conflicts include employment, consultancies, stock ownership or medicolegal work. For the latter, information about whether the author’s medicolegal work is largely for one side should be reported. This list of potential conflicts is not all inclusive, and it is the responsibility of each author to ensure that all of their “potential conflicts” are reported in the Acknowledgement section of the paper. Authors should err on the side of full disclosure, and if authors are uncertain about what constitutes a relevant conflict, they should contact the editorial office (jins@unm.edu)

In addition to signing this attestation, compliance with institutional research standards for animal or human research (including a statement that the research was completed in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html should be included in the methods section of the manuscript, and funding sources and other potential conflicts of interest should be included in the acknowledgements.

Only the corresponding author’s signature is required. The disclosure form (which will be e-mailed to submitting authors at time of submission) pertains to all authors, and the corresponding author’s signature documents that the corresponding author has obtained all pertinent information from all authors. It is the corresponding author’s ethical responsibility to explicitly check with each of his/her co-authors to ensure that any real or apparent conflict of interest is appropriately disclosed. The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent an author with a significant financial or other relationship from publishing their work in JINS, but rather to provide readers with information on which they can make their own judgments.