Funding & Conflict of Interest

Funding and Conflict of Interest

Every submission must include, before the reference list, a Declarations section containing a Funding statement and a Conflict of Interest statement. State "none" where applicable — the section must not be omitted.

Funding

Example statements:

"This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors."
"This work was supported by [funder name] under grant number [xxxx]."

Conflict of Interest

Example statements:

"The author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article."
"The author(s) declare(s) the following conflict(s) of interest: [describe]."