Conflict of Interest

Conflict of Interest / Competing Interests

Authors must declare financial, institutional, or personal relationships that could influence the work, or state that there are none.

Reviewers and editors must decline to handle a manuscript if they have a conflict (for example the same institution or a recent collaboration with an author) and must declare it to the Editor in Chief.

Editors do not make decisions on their own submissions: such manuscripts are handled by an independent editor and reviewers.

Each published article contains a Conflict of Interest statement.