Surgical Technology International

 

 

Compliance with Ethical Standards

 

 

To ensure the highest quality of editorial content, and editorial integrity Surgical Technology International requires authors to include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest.

All authors (including co-authors) must sign a conflict of interest declaration.

 

- Affiliation/Financial Interest Name of Organization(s)

- Grant/Research Support

- Consultant

- Speakers’ Bureau

- Major Stock Shareholder

- Other Financial or Material Support

 

This information should be submitted during the peer review process. The Editors may reject manuscripts that do not comply with the guidelines.

 

Surgical Technology International requires all authors to acknowledge in the title page of their manuscript all funding sources that supported their work as well as all institutional or corporate affiliations of the authors. Authors are also required to disclose to the Editor, in a covering letter at the time of submission of their manuscript, any commercial associations that might pose a conflict of interest. These include consultation arrangements, stock or other equity ownership, patent licensing arrangements or payments for conducting or publicizing the study. The disclosure will be held in strict confidence during the review process and will not influence any editorial decisions. However, if the paper is accepted for publication, the Editor will determine how any conflict of interest should be disclosed.

 

The corresponding author collects the conflict of interest disclosure forms from all authors.

 

 

1. Research involving human participants and/or animals

 

When reporting studies that involve human participants, authors must include a statement that the studies have been approved by the appropriate institutional and/or national research ethics committee and have been performed in accordance with the ethical standards stated in the 1964 Helsinki Declaration.

 

The following statement should be included:

 

Ethical approval statement:

“All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.”

 

 

2. Statement on the welfare of animals

 

The welfare of animals used for research must be respected. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals have been followed, and that the studies have been approved by a research ethics committee at the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted.

 

Ethical approval:  

Authors must include a statement declaring that all applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed.

 

Ethical approval statement:  

“All procedures performed in studies involving animals were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted.”

 

 

3. Informed consent

 

All individuals have individual rights that are not to be infringed. Individual participants in studies have the right to decide what happens to their personal data gathered, to what they have said during a study or an interview, as well as to any photograph that was taken. It is important that all participants have given their informed consent in writing prior to inclusion in the study.

 

Identifying details (names, identity numbers, dates of birth, and other personal information) of the participants that were studied should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and genetic profiles without prior consent from the individual participants.

 

Informed consent statement: “Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.”

 

 

4. Plagiarism, multiple submissions

 

Authors are personally responsible for the editorial content of their article. Articles submitted to Surgical Technology International must be original articles, not published in any form prior to submission, nor submitted to any other publication.

 

Editors reserve the right to reject any manuscript which do not comply with the above requirements.