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Author Guidelines

AUTHORSHIP CRITERIA

An “author” generally considered as someone who has made substantive intellectual contributions to a published study, and biomedical authorship continues to have important academic, social, and financial implications.

Authors should meet following conditions

Authorship credit should be based on

Substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and Final approval of the version to be published.

When a large, multicenter group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship defined below, and editors will ask these individuals to complete journal‐specific author and conflict-of-interest disclosure forms. When submitting a manuscript authored by a group, the corresponding author should clearly indicate the preferred citation and identify all individual authors as well as the group name.

To qualify for authorship, one must be available for each of the 3 categories of contributions listed below. To have made substantial contributions to the intellectual content of the paper as described above.

(At least 1 of the 3 below)

Conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data

(At least 1 of 2 below)

Drafting of the manuscript, Critical revision of the manuscript for Important intellectual content

(At least 1 below)

Statistical analysis, Obtaining funding Administrative, technical, or material support

Supervision

Those researchers who do not meet authorship criteria should be enlisted in “Acknowledgement section” of the manuscript. Everyone actively involved in the particular research and qualifies as a author should be enlisted in the authors list. However, NRJ discourages “honorary” authorship to non-involved individuals.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure that all involved and qualifying co-authors are included in the manuscript submission and no inappropriate or honorary co-authors are included. The corresponding author should also make sure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and have agreed to its submission to NRJ.

DISCLOSURE AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

All authors should disclose as early as possible during the time of submission of any potential financial or other substantive conflict of interest in the manuscript that might influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed at acknowledgment section. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include: employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding.

DUTIES OF AUTHORS

REPORTING STANDARDS

A true and correct account of the research work should be presented, along with an relevant objective explanation of its significance. The correct data representation is mandatory in the papers. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Review and professional publication articles should also be accurate and objective, and editorial ‘opinion’ works should be clearly identified as such.

DATA ACCESS AND RETENTION

Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

ORIGINALITY AND PLAGIARISM

The authors are required to use original language, context and data during their research. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, then it will require proper citation and quoting so as to give the original researchers their due credit and there is no issue of plagiarism. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

MULTIPLE, REDUNDANT OR CONCURRENT PUBLICATION

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SOURCES

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.

FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS IN PUBLISHED WORKS

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.

ADVERTISING POLICY

NRJ has a policy of one advertisement per journal issue.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is the use of others published and unpublished ideas or words (or other intellectual property) without attribution or permission, and presenting them as new and original rather than derived from an existing source. This applies whether the ideas or words are taken from abstracts, research grant applications, Institutional Review Board applications, or unpublished or published manuscripts in any publication format (print or electronic). Whenever an author uses another person’s exact words, they must be placed in quotation marks and a citation must be given. The reader of an article in NRJ must know which words are the author’s and which belong to someone else. Even documents in the public domain, such as government documents, must be attributed to their source.

SELF-PLAGIARISM

The author’s copying of her or his own previously published material: duplicate publication or “self-plagiarism.” If an author has published an article in Journal A, she or he may not send the same article with a few minor adjustments to Journal B. Nor may she or he take verbatim portions of the first article without quotation marks for use in a second article. Each publication should contain fresh writing, even if there is nothing new to report on the topic.

INADEQUATE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF DATA OR IDEAS

Most writers rely on the ideas and data of others, but doing so without naming the source is a form of plagiarism.

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Occurs when an author copies (with or without attribution) significant portions of a published work, including tables and figures, without having obtained the permission of the person or publisher holding the copyright. When this plagiarized “writing” is published, the new publisher is guilty of violating the copyright held by the original publisher.

EXCESSIVE OR POOR REPHRASING

An author may believe that juggling the words of a copied-andpasted sentence from another article is adequate. It is not. Also, it is not acceptable for an author’s work to be made up largely of paraphrased sentences from other published material. And the ordering of information presented in an article must be original and not too closely follow another published work.

POLICY FOR MISCONDUCT

NRJ policy on plagiarism is shaped by two desires: to inform authors of acceptable writing practices and to set a very high standard for the publication of peer-reviewed articles. When plagiarism is detected, by either peer reviewers or staff editors, before or after acceptance, during editing, or at any time before publication NRJ will alert the author, asking her or him to rewrite or quote exactly and to cite the original source. If the plagiarism is extensive-that is, if at least 25% of the original submission is plagiarized-the article may be rejected and the author’s employer notified of the violation. If plagiarism is detected after publication, the editors will notify readers of the infraction through an editor’s note in the journal, and the author’s employer may be notified of the breach.

Editor In Chief

Dr Milesh Jung Sijapati

Nepalese Respiratory Journal