Ethical aspects

Before submitting articles to the journal Anatomía Digital, authors are advised to take into consideration the provisions of the International Committee on Ethics in Scientific Publications, whose recommendations are found in the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, to which we adhere. This information is available at:http://publicationethics.org.

Anatomía Digital has a policy for detecting ethical publication errors such as: plagiarism, fictitious authorship, changes of authorship, redundant publication, data manipulation, and undisclosed conflict of interest. If any ethical publication error is detected, the journal will reject or retract the article and take the measures recommended by the International Committee on Ethics in Scientific Publications, which includes informing the author, other authors, the institution to which he/she belongs, his/her superiors, the source of funding, the ethics committee of his/her institution, other scientific journals, and other authorities of the error. Computer software will be used for the purposes of detecting ethical publication errors.

From the editorial staff

The editor and the members of the advisory board and academic committee must maintain absolute confidentiality regarding the materials received and the discussions related to decision-making.

All names, personal data and email addresses entered into the journal Anatomía Digital are used exclusively for the editing purposes stated in this code of ethics, and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other person. The editors protect the personal data of contributors.

The editorial board of the journal has the obligation to communicate to the author any matter related to his/her collaboration during the evaluation process and editorial production.

From the authors

The articles submitted must be the product of original and unpublished research; they must not have been previously published in any printed or electronic media, except in personal and/or institutional repositories of limited distribution. The texts must not be submitted simultaneously to another publication.

The authors are solely responsible for the content of the texts and for any dispute or claim related to intellectual property rights, and must therefore exonerate the editorial board of the journal.

Authors must provide all information related to the research that supports the article, as well as specify whether it is part of another research in progress and whether it was presented at a seminar or conference.

Authors must acknowledge their scientific sources, clearly stating the origin of their ideas, methodologies, sources, etc., so that readers can consult them and compare, if they consider it necessary, the use that has been made of them.

Experimental research in humans and animals

Articles describing experiments performed on human subjects must indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional or regional Ethics Committee and with the 2013 updated Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects. JAMA. 2013;310(20):2191-4).

For animal experiments, the authors will take into consideration the international standards for the use of experimental animals, in particular those recommended by the Offfice of Animal Care and Use of the National Institutes of Health (http://www.uss.cl/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Gui%CC%81a-para-elCuidado-y-Uso-de-los-Animales-de-Laboratorio.pdf), as well as the guidelines of the institution or national law regulating the care and use of laboratory animals.

Guidelines for developing and presenting research

For the presentation of articles, authors are recommended to follow the internationally established guidelines for the design, execution and presentation of different types of studies:

Randomized controlled trials: CONSORT (http://www.consort-statement.org/)

Authorship Requirements

Recognition of authorship must be based on:

1) Significant contributions to the conception or design of the manuscript, or to the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data;

2) Major writing or critical review of the content of the manuscript;

3) The final approval of the version to be published, and

4) Assumption of responsibility for all aspects of the manuscript, to ensure that questions regarding the accuracy or integrity of any part of it are appropriately investigated and resolved. Seeking funding, collecting data, or general supervision of the research group do not in themselves justify authorship. All persons listed as authors must meet the criteria for authorship, and all persons who meet the criteria should be listed as authors.

Contributors who do not meet the authorship criteria should be listed in the Acknowledgements section. It is essential that each author of the article has an ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) code in order to distinguish their academic and research activity:https://orcid.org/.

Acknowledgements

This section acknowledges the contributors to the study, i.e., the people who made important contributions to the article, including the participants in clinical trials. The contributors should be specifically mentioned and for what type of collaboration in the research they are thanking. The contributors mentioned in this section must provide written permission for their names to be published.

Examples to include in the Acknowledgements: people who collaborate only by providing technical assistance, collaborations in the writing of the manuscript, department heads whose participation is of a general nature.

Declaration of conflicts of interest

Authors must declare any personal or commercial relationship that could imply bias and therefore a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. Conflicts of interest may be direct or indirect, including financial interest of the authors from the company sponsoring the study; as well as employment, scholarships, travel, consultancies, etc.

If the author has shares in the company or is employed by it, either full- or part-time, this must be disclosed in the conflict of interest declaration. Failure to do so may result in penalties.

Announcing the sources of financial support for the study does not imply a conflict of interest.