Author Responsibilities
JCSR is committed to providing authors and readers with a professional and courteous experience throughout the review and publication process. As an author, there are certain responsibilities that you are expected to fulfill, which include:

Respond promptly to any queries or requests for information during the publication process.
Assume accountability for all aspects of your work, including investigating and resolving any questions or concerns related to accuracy or research integrity.
Maintain the confidentiality of all communications between you and the journal editor until an editorial decision has been made.
Review and adhere to our research ethics guidelines regarding authorship. These guidelines state that you must:
Incorporate anyone who has made a significant and meaningful contribution to the manuscript as an author (any other individuals involved in the research or writing process should be acknowledged in the acknowledgments section).
Exclude individuals who have not made a contribution to the manuscript, or who have opted not to be associated with the research.
In accordance with COPE’s position statement on AI tools, Large Language Models cannot be credited with authorship as they are incapable of conceptualising a research design without human direction and cannot be accountable for the integrity, originality, and validity of the published work.
If your manuscript involves human participants, you must ensure that you have considered whether ethical approval is necessary for your research, and provide this information as part of your submission.
Research and publishing ethics
Our editors and staff are committed to ensuring that the content we publish meets high ethical standards. To achieve this goal, we closely follow the guidelines and flowcharts provided on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) website.

JCSR has also developed its own research and publishing ethics guidelines. They will help you avoid the most common publishing ethics issues. We urge you to read these guidelines:

1. Clinical trials
We can only consider submissions that involve clinical trials if the following conditions are met:

The trial must be registered in a publicly-accessible database. This should have been done before the trial started or participants were enrolled. Publicly-accessible databases may include sites such as those provided by the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization.
When submitting your work to us, please provide the name of your trial register and your clinical trial registration number.
You must be able to demonstrate that you obtained clearance for the trial from your institutional ethics board.
2. Authorship
It can be tempting to include all individuals who have assisted you in your work when listing authors for your paper, but it's crucial to avoid forgetting anyone who may have been involved from the beginning. Authorship issues such as ghost authorship, where a contributor is excluded from the author list, and gift/guest authorship, where someone who hasn't contributed is included, can lead to disputes over author order and contribution levels. These issues have the potential to overshadow your work and even result in retractions, which is why it's important to agree on authorship prior to submission.

According to the authorship principles outlined by the International Council of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), for someone to be considered an author, they must have:

Made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
Drafted the work or revised it critically for important intellectual content; AND
Given final approval of the version to be published; AND
Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
If someone only secured the research grant that financed the study, it does not qualify them for authorship. Contributors who do not meet all four criteria established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) should instead be acknowledged. Additionally, in compliance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) stance on AI tools, Large Language Models cannot be attributed authorship since they lack the ability to conceptualize a research design without human guidance and cannot be held responsible for the integrity, originality, and validity of the published work.

In order to ensure transparency and integrity in the use of AI tools for creating, developing, or generating content in JCSR publications, authors must clearly disclose such usage in the Methods and Acknowledgements (or another appropriate section) of their article, chapter, or case study. The disclosure should include a description of the content created or modified and a citation of the name and version of the AI tool