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Open Access 01-09-2010 | Editorial
Ethical guidelines for authorship and publishing in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle
Published in: Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle | Issue 1/2010
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The principles of ethical authorship and publishing in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle (JCSM) are:
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all authors listed on the manuscript have approved its submission and publication as provided to JCSM;
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no person who has a right to be recognized as author has been omitted from the list of authors;
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each author has made an independent material contribution to the work submitted for publication;
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the submitted work is original and is neither under consideration elsewhere nor has it been published previously in whole or in part other than in abstract form;
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all original research work is approved by the relevant bodies such as institutional review boards or ethics committees;
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all conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, that may affect the authors’ ability to present data objectively have been duly declared in the manuscript;
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the manuscript in its published form will be maintained on the servers of JCSM as a valid publication only as long as all statements in the guidelines on ethical publishing remain true;
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if any of the aforementioned statements ceases to be true, the authors have a duty to notify the editors of JCSM as soon as possible so that the information available online can be updated and/or the manuscript can be withdrawn.