Declarations and Disclosures

Declaration of Interest

All authors must disclose any potential competing interests that could compromise the independence of their research. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, patent applications/registrations, grants, or other unstated funding sources. In addition, all authors must acknowledge any significant personal or ideological interests that could inappropriately compromise said research. The authors will disclose interests in two places:

  1. A summary declaration of interest statement within the title page file. If there are no interests to declare, proceed by stating the following: “Declarations of interest: none.” If the submission is accepted, this summary statement will be published with the article.
  2. Detailed disclosures as part of a separate Declaration of Interest form, which forms part of the official records. It is critical to declare any potential interests in both places and that the information matches.

Disclosure of Funding

Authors are also required to identify potential sources of financial support for the conduct of their research and/or preparation of the article on the title page and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; in the selection of additional researchers; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. All support sources should be indicated in the manuscript's Acknowledgements section. For example, these might include funding for open-access publication, writing or editorial assistance, or provision of experimental materials. If the funding source(s) were not involved, this should be disclosed also.

Informed Consent

All human-participant studies submitted to the journal should adhere to the Helsinki Declaration (revised in 2013). To that end, the AIEJ will additionally observe Californian privacy and ethics laws wherever possible, to archive and guarantee the ethical use of human participants in any research submitted to the journal. Participants have the right to privacy, which should not be infringed upon without informed consent. Identifying information, including names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, or pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the participant (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that an identifiable participant be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should disclose to these participants whether any potential identifiable material might be available via the Internet, or in print after publication.