Publication Ethics
For the policies on the research and publication ethics not stated in this instructions, the Animal Reports Journal follow the guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethic (COPE), Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments guidelines (ARRIVE), Guidance on the operation of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, EU Directive 2010/63 for the protection of animals used for scientific purposes or the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals NIH (National Research Council).
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Research Ethics |
All of the manuscripts should be prepared in strict observation of research and publication ethics guidelines as stated here and other Animal Reports guidelines. Any study including human subjects or human data must be reviewed and approved by a responsible institutional review board (IRB). Please refer to the principles embodied in the Declaration of Helsinki for all investigations involving human materials.
Animal experiments also should be reviewed by an appropriate committee (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) for the care and use of animals as recommended by Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments guidelines (ARRIVE), Guidance on the operation of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, EU Directive 2010/63 for the protection of animals used for scientific purposes or the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals NIH (National Research Council) or those of an equivalent internationally recognized body.
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Conflict of Interest |
The corresponding author of an article is asked to inform the Editor of the authors' potential conflicts of interest possibly influencing their interpretation of data. A potential conflict of interest should be disclosed in the cover letter even when the authors are confident that their judgments have not been influenced in preparing the manuscript. Such conflicts may be financial support or private connections to pharmaceutical companies, political pressure from interest groups, or academic problems. Disclosure form shall be same with ICMJE Uniform Disclosure Form for Potential Conflicts of Interest (http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf. The editor will decide whether the information on the conflict should be included in the published paper. Before publishing such information, the editor will consult with the corresponding author. In particular, all sources of funding for a study should be explicitly stated. The animal reports asks referees to let its Editor know of any conflict of interest before reviewing a particular manuscript.
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Redundant Publication and Plagiarism |
Redundant publication is defined as “reporting (publishing or attempting to publish) substantially the same work more than once, without attribution of the original source(s)”. Characteristics of reports that are substantially similar include the following: (a) “at least one of the authors must be common to all reports (if there are no common authors, it is more likely plagiarism than redundant publication),” (b) “the subject or study populations are often the same or similar,” (c) “the methodology is typically identical or nearly so,” and (d) “the results and their interpretation generally vary little, if at all.” When submitting a manuscript, authors should include a letter informing the editor of any potential overlap with other already published material or material being evaluated for publication and should also state how the manuscript submitted to Animal Reports differs substantially from this other material.
Note: The Animal reports used Ithenticate to check the plagiarism upon at submission and the manuscript with 15% similarity or higher will be has disk reject.
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Authorship |
Animal reports follows the recommendations for authorship by the ICMJE (http://www.icmje.org) and the Good Publication Practice Guidelines by the Committee on Publication Ethic (COPE). The Uniform Requirements by the ICMJE recommends authorship as follows. “Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, and 3.” Beyond the ICMJE recommendations, the Animal reports guidelines suggest that all authors should make a substantial intellectual contribution to the publication, the guidelines warn against authorship abuse, and list common types of abuse. Authorship is an important aspect of research publication, and all involved authors should agree whole contents of the document including authorship. Contributors should be differentiated from authors as recommended by the ICMJE. Animal Reports accepts notice of equal contribution for the first author when the study was clearly performed by co-first authors.
Sample CRediT author statement
Jack San: Conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data. Wang Wu: drafting the article and revising it critically for important intellectual. Jan Jansen: final approval of the version to be published. Ensure that all authors have approved the final version of the manuscript and agree to its submission.
· Changes to Authorship
The editors of this journal generally will not consider changes to authorship once a manuscript has been submitted. It is important that the authors carefully consider the authorship list and the order of the authors and provide a definitive author list in the original submission.
The policy of this journal around authorship changes:
ü All authors must be listed in the manuscript and their details entered into the submission system.
ü Any addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should only be made prior to acceptance, and only if approved by the journal editor.
ü Requests to change authorship should be made by the corresponding author, who must provide the reason for the request to the journal editor with written confirmation from all authors, including any authors being added or removed, that they agree with the addition, removal, or rearrangement.
ü All requests to change authorship must be submitted using the journal form. Requests that do not comply with the instructions outlined in the form will not be considered.
ü Only in exceptional circumstances will the journal editor consider the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of authors post acceptance.
ü Publication of the manuscript may be paused while a change in authorship request is considered.
ü Any authorship change requests approved by the journal editor will result in a corrigendum if the manuscript has already been published.
Note: Any unauthorised authorship changes may result in the rejection of the article or retraction, if the article has already been published.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Assisted Technology |
At submission, the Animal Reports ask the authors to disclose whether they used artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted technologies (such as Large Language Models [LLMs], chatbots, or image creators) in the production of submitted work. Authors who use such technology should describe, in both the cover letter and the submitted work in the appropriate section if applicable, how they used it. The guidelines of using AI are following ICMJE (http://www.icmje.org), for example, if AI was used for writing assistance, describe this in the acknowledgment section. If AI was used for data collection, analysis, or figure generation, authors should describe this use in the methods. Chatbots (such as ChatGPT) should not be listed as authors because they cannot be responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the work, and these responsibilities are required for authorship. Therefore, humans are responsible for any submitted material that included the use of AI-assisted technologies. Authors should carefully review and edit the result because AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete, or biased. Authors should not list AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author, nor cite AI as an author. Authors should be able to assert that there is no plagiarism in their paper, including in text and images produced by the AI. Humans must ensure there is appropriate attribution of all quoted material, including full citations.
Authors must not list or cite AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author on the manuscript since authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans.
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Peer review |
This journal follows a single blind review process (authors noun, reviewers anonymous). Your submission will initially be assessed by our editors to determine suitability for publication in this journal. If your submission is deemed suitable, it will typically be sent to a minimum of two reviewers for an independent expert assessment of the scientific quality. The decision as to whether your article is accepted or rejected will be taken by our editors.
Our editors are not involved in making decisions about papers which: they have written themselves, have been written by family members or colleagues, and relate to products or services in which they have an interest.
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