Ethical Considerations and Licensing
Authorship
The NZMSJ adheres to the definition of authorship as per the ICMJE. Please ensure that all individuals who have made substantial contributions to the work, as per the following criteria, are listed as authors. Contributors who do not qualify as authors may be listed under “Acknowledgements”.
Conflicts of Interest
A conflict of interest exists when professional judgement concerning a primary interest may be influenced by a secondary interest. Identifiable conflicts of interest include, but not limited to the following: financial relationships, personal relationships or rivalries, academic competition, and intellectual beliefs. Please ensure the following three items from all authors are declared in the NZMSJ manuscript cover sheet and manuscript submission.
Ethical Approval
If ethics committee approval has been obtained, please ensure that this is acknowledged in the NZMSJ manuscript cover sheet and manuscript, with the name of the committee clearly stated.
Patient Consent
If you are submitting a case report, please ensure that individual patient consent has been obtained prior to submission, and documented in the Manuscript cover sheet. Where patient consent has been obtained, this should be indicated in the manuscript. Patient anonymity must be maintained at all times, regardless of the type of submission.
Further Clarification
Please contact: [email protected].
The NZMSJ adheres to the definition of authorship as per the ICMJE. Please ensure that all individuals who have made substantial contributions to the work, as per the following criteria, are listed as authors. Contributors who do not qualify as authors may be listed under “Acknowledgements”.
- Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work
- Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content
- Final approval of the version to be published
- Agreement to be responsible and 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.
Conflicts of Interest
A conflict of interest exists when professional judgement concerning a primary interest may be influenced by a secondary interest. Identifiable conflicts of interest include, but not limited to the following: financial relationships, personal relationships or rivalries, academic competition, and intellectual beliefs. Please ensure the following three items from all authors are declared in the NZMSJ manuscript cover sheet and manuscript submission.
- Authors’ conflicts of interest
- Sources of support for the work (includes summer studentship funding)
- Access to study data, with an explanation of the nature and extent of access
Ethical Approval
If ethics committee approval has been obtained, please ensure that this is acknowledged in the NZMSJ manuscript cover sheet and manuscript, with the name of the committee clearly stated.
Patient Consent
If you are submitting a case report, please ensure that individual patient consent has been obtained prior to submission, and documented in the Manuscript cover sheet. Where patient consent has been obtained, this should be indicated in the manuscript. Patient anonymity must be maintained at all times, regardless of the type of submission.
Further Clarification
Please contact: [email protected].
Open Access Statement
The NZMSJ is committed to increasing the reach and use of the articles we publish. Therefore, the NZMSJ is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or institution. The NZMSJ publishes under the Creative Commons Licence BY-NC 4.0. This allows anyone to immediately read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose as long as appropriate credit is given to the original author and it is not used for commercial purposes as stated in the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence from Creative Commons.
Copyright
Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain full copyright, commercial and publishing rights without restrictions after publishing with NZMSJ, but NZMSJ does not consider articles which are simultaneously in submission with other journals, or have been published in full elsewhere. The journal will consider manuscripts which have been rejected by other journals, or have previously been published as provisional abstracts. Please note that publication of an article in the NZMSJ will likely preclude the work from also being published in other peer-reviewed journals.
