Declaration by the Author/s

Author/s must read the following statements very carefully and comply with the terms and conditions:

(1) Duties and Responsibilities

(2) Roles

(3) Funding Disclosures

(4) Acknowledgments

(5) Conflicts of Interest Disclosures

How to send: Please fill up the Declaration and get a printout and sign it physically and then get it scanned. The scanned copy may be sent to other authors via email for their signature. Finally, send the scanned copy to us as an attachment via email.

Your name (please print):

E-mail:

Corresponding author:

Manuscript title:

1.	Duties and Responsibilities

I/we declare that all the following statements are true to the best of our knowledge and beliefs.

The manuscript is a valid work of research and is original in content.

The manuscript is free from plagiarism/ self-plagiarism of any kind including translation from another language.

I/we have not published this manuscript or any other with substantial similarity elsewhere.

I/we have not submitted this manuscript or any other with substantial similarity elsewhere for publication and the same is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

I/we have secured permission to use copyrighted materials in the MS.

I have checked that the publication in the journal satisfies my professional requirement and I will not hold the journal responsible for anything in future.

For any violation of ethical and technical norms I/we will be responsible.

I/we agree that ………………………………………………. ………. ………will be responsible for correspondence with the editorial office in all the stages of the publication process.

2.	Roles

With the inclusion of the name/s of the author/s, it is assumed that the author/s has/have made a substantial contribution to the research and preparation of the MS. In the table below author/s needs to specify the roles played by the author/s.

I/we claim authorship of the MS because I/we have played the following roles and made the following contributions:

Author’s name/s	Contribution/s [Part or entire?]	Role/s [Conception, planning, analysis, conclusions, referencing etc.]	Signature/s
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3.	Funding Disclosures

Please check the appropriate box below

I/we certify that no funding has been received for research or/and publication.

I/we certify that I/we received funding for publication and that funding information has been included in the manuscript properly.

Does your funding agency require that you deposit your preprint and postprint of the MS with an approved public repository?

Yes or NO

Funding information:

Funder:	Number:

4.	Acknowledgement

There may be some persons or groups or agencies with a sufficient contribution to the MS or help in research or financial support. Author/s can include their names in the Acknowledgement section with prior written permission from the persons or groups or agencies.

I/we certify that we have prepared the Acknowledgement Section following the criteria mentioned above.

5. Conflicts of Interest Disclosures

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) explains in its Guidelines on Good Publication Practice (2003) that:

“Conflicts of interest arise when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that are not fully apparent and that may influence their judgments on what is published. They have been described as those which, when revealed later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled or deceived.”

Conflicts of Interest may include many issues—financial, ethical, legal etc, involving many parties. We want our authors to be fully aware of the conflicts that may arise at any stage of publication.

Declaration by the author/s

I/we hereby declare that there is no conflict of interest. [Please check the correct option]

Or

I/we hereby declare that there may arise some conflicts of interest. [Please check the correct option]

Please specify potential conflicts of interest (in the case of option II):

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Author’s name/s	Signature/s
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