Editorial Policy

JNET upholds the highest standards in scholarly publishing.

Before submitting a manuscript to the journal, authors must ensure that they have read and complied with the journal’s policies. The journal reserves the right to reject without review, or retract, any manuscript that the Editor believes may not comply with these policies.

The responsibilities of the journal’s authors, editors, reviewers, and publisher regarding research and publication ethics are described in ‘Instructions to Authors’.

Submission to the journal implies that the manuscript has not been previously published (in part or in whole, in any language), is not in press, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Authors must inform the editors if any related manuscripts are under consideration, in press, or published elsewhere. The availability of a manuscript on a publicly accessible preprint server does not constitute prior publication (see ‘Preprints’ section of ‘Instructions to Authors’).

If authors choose to submit their manuscript elsewhere before a final decision has been made on its suitability for publication in JNET, they should first withdraw it from the journal.

Submission to the journal implies that all authors have seen and approved the author list. Changes to the author list after manuscript submission – such as the insertion or removal of author names, or a rearrangement of author order – must be approved by all authors and the editor.

Authors are encouraged to consider the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations on ‘Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors’. The ICMJE recommends that authorship is based on four criteria: making a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the work; drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; approving the final version of the manuscript for publication; and agreeing to be held accountable for all aspects of the work. Any contributor who has met all four criteria should be an author on the manuscript. Contributors who do not meet all four criteria should not be authors of the manuscript but may be included in the Acknowledgements section instead.

Authors of manuscripts describing experiments involving humans or materials derived from humans must demonstrate that the work was carried out in accordance with the principles embodied in the Declaration of Helsinki, its revisions, and any guidelines approved by the authors’ institutions. Where relevant, the authors must include a statement in the Materials and Methods section of their manuscript that describes the procedures for obtaining informed consent from participants regarding participation in the research and publication of the research. Authors must take active measures to ensure that patients and subjects remain unidentifiable from data included in the manuscript, Supplementary Material, and any other databases.

Authors of manuscripts describing experiments involving animals or materials derived from animals must demonstrate that the work was carried out in accordance with the guidelines approved by the authors’ institution(s).

Authors should clearly state in the manuscript that the ethics institutional review board of their institution approved this research. To maintain anonymity during the journal’s double-blind peer review process, the name of the institution should not be provided in the manuscript upon first submission. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the institution name and other relevant details should then be included in the revised manuscript.

JNET is fully Open Access and uses a Creative Commons license that allows users to conditionally use and reuse the material published in the journal without charge or the need to ask prior permission from the publisher or author. More details on this license are provided below.

Copyright and licensing

Authors are required to assign all copyrights in the work to JSNET and declare this within the submission system.

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. This license allows users to share unmodified articles non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given. Any commercial use requires permission from JSNET.

In the interests of transparency, the journal requires all authors to declare any competing interests or conflicts of interest in relation to their submitted manuscript. A conflict of interest exists when there are actual, perceived, or potential circumstances that could influence an author’s ability to conduct or report research impartially. Potential conflicts include (but are not limited to) competing commercial or financial interests, commercial affiliations, consulting roles, or ownership of stock or equity.

Authors must clearly indicate at the time of submission any conflict of interest by submitting an Author Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships, as well as including a Disclosure of Conflict of Interest statement within the manuscript.
(Please see ‘Instructions to Authors’ for more information on requirements.).

COI Disclosure Form

All journal content is independently curated, and advertising does not in any way influence editorial decisions. Advertising is clearly marked as such, and the editors have full and final authority for approving print and online advertisements and for enforcing advertising policy. The journal will not carry advertisements for products proven to be seriously harmful to health, and the editors will consider all criticisms of advertisements for publication.