Plagiarism and self-plagiarism

Any manuscript submitted must be original and the manuscript, or substantial parts of it, must
not be under consideration by any other journal.
In any case where there is the potential for overlap or duplication, we require that authors are
transparent. Authors should declare any potentially overlapping publications on submission.,
provided that there is agreement from the original journal/publisher no breach of copyright, and
the original publication is cited.
Authors should be aware that replication of text from their own previous publications is text
recycling (also referred to as self-plagiarism), and in some cases is considered unacceptable.
Where overlap of text with authors’ own publications is necessary or unavoidable, duplication
must always be reported transparently and be properly attributed and compliant with copyright
requirements.
For the types of clinical trials that are judged and accepted in the journal, in addition to the code
of ethics, the code of registration in the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT) and the status
in any international trial registry approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) recovery is
a must.
These studies must be retrievable on the ICTRP Search Portal.