GENERAL INFORMATION

 JOURNAL OF DIETITIANS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (JDAN)

Publisher

Dietitians Association of Nigeria (DAN) is a national professional association of dietitians and assistant dietitians in Nigeria. The Association promotes health through food, nutrition and diet planning. The Association is working to ensure standardization of dietetic practice through accreditation and reaccreditation of recognized dietetic education programmes. It encourages its members to adopt evidence-based, ethical practices and life-long continuous professional development. It advocates for dietitians in Nigeria and looks forward to providing a quality assurance programme for accredited dietetics education programmes, dietetic internship. It encourages its members to adopt applied research and best practices in nutrition and dietetics.

About the Journal

Journal of Dietitians Association of Nigeria, the official organ of Dietitians Association of Nigeria, is a peer-reviewed journal published biannually (two volumes per year). The primary objective of the Journal of Dietitians Association of Nigeria is to serve as a scholarly platform for the dissemination of high-quality research, evidence-based practices, and innovative insights in the field of dietetics and nutrition, with a focus on the Nigerian and African context. This journal aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas among dietitians, nutritionists, researchers, and healthcare professionals to advance the understanding of nutrition-related challenges, promote healthy dietary practices, and contribute to improved public health outcomes in Nigeria. Through rigorous peer-reviewed publications, this journal seeks to promote evidence-based decision-making, foster interdisciplinary collaborations, and ultimately enhance the quality of nutrition and dietetics services in Nigeria and beyond.

Sources of Support

The journal is sponsored with funding support from Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), sales of hard copies and article processing charges

 

Copyright notice

Manuscripts are accepted for publication with the understanding that no substantial part has been, or will be, published elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the copyright is transferred to the publisher when the articles, including reprints, photographic reproductions, and translations, are accepted for publication. The copyright owner is the Dietitians Association of Nigeria. An abstract at the beginning of an article may be reproduced without specific permission, provided that the original citation is included. Statements made and opinions expressed in letters to the Editor, Editorials, Presidential addresses, book reviews, and other special articles appearing in this journal are the views of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Journal or the Association.

 

Open access policy

All research articles published in the Journal of Dietitians Association of Nigeria are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download, and share. Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license that permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

 

Scope

The primary focus of the journal is the publication of basic and applied studies in human nutrition, dietetics, food sciences, health sciences, diet-related diseases, and related fields. The following types of manuscripts are considered: original research articles, review articles, issues and opinions, special communications, letters to the Editor, book reviews, and proceedings of symposia. The journal is intended for a wide audience, including dietitians, nutritionists, biochemists, health professionals, home economists, policymakers, students of dietetics/nutrition and related fields, health educators, and all those in the health sciences, basic medical sciences, and agriculture.

Disclaimer

Articles and any other materials published in the Journal of Dietitians Association of Nigeria represent the opinions of the authors and should not be construed to reflect the opinions of the Editors or the publishers. Any data included in articles on commercial foods are reported solely as information and are limited to the samples analyzed. No warranty or guarantee is made or implied that other samples of these products will have the same or similar composition. The inclusion of such articles or data does not imply endorsement of any product.

 

GUIDE FOR AUTHORS

 

MANUSCRIPTS

The following categories of manuscripts will be considered for publication: original research articles, review articles, viewpoints, special communications, letters to the Editor, book reviews, and symposium proceedings. Manuscripts must be entirely original and should not have been submitted or published elsewhere.

Original Research (Up to 8000 words, including tables, figures, and references): These encompass comprehensive reports of applied (human) or basic (bench work) research. They address subjects pertinent to clinical and basic studies relevant to human nutrition, including biochemistry, genetics, immunology, metabolism, molecular and cell biology, neurobiology, physiology, and pharmacology. Studies involving both adult and pediatric populations are welcome. Manuscripts must present original work, even if confirming previous findings. Other factors affecting publication include the paper's significance to the field, the soundness of the experimental design, method validity, conclusion appropriateness, and overall presentation quality.

Rapid Communication (1000-3000 words, including tables, figures, and references): This category includes concise and original studies of scientific significance. In the cover letter, authors should provide justification for requesting rapid communication. The review process takes 10 days, with authors allowed one revision if accepted. The final paper version will be published in the next available journal issue.

Research Letter (Up to 1000 words, including up to 10 references and 1 figure or table): Research Letters contain new data or clinical observations in a format conducive to swift publication.

Review Article (Up to 8000 words, including tables, figures, and references): This category welcomes comprehensive, in-depth reviews on nutritional topics. Reviews may be solicited by the Editor or submitted as unsolicited viewpoints. Both systematic and scooping reviews are highly encouraged.

Case Report (Up to 3000 words, including tables, figures, and references): Case Reports describe novel situations or provide valuable insights into the mechanisms, diagnosis, or treatment of diseases. They typically focus on four or fewer patients.

Editorial (Up to 1000 words, including tables, figures, and references): Editorials express opinions on current topics of interest or offer commentary on papers published in the field of Nutrition. Typically, editorials are commissioned by the Editors.

Meeting/Conference Proceedings (Up to 3000 words, including tables, figures, and references): Reports on meeting proceedings provide synopses of scientific meetings that are of interest to the Nutrition community. Authors should contact the Editor about potential interest at least 8 weeks before the conference. Collections of abstracts from organizational meetings do not undergo standard peer review. The Editorial Board aims to promptly present such material to the nutrition community.

Special Article (Up to 5000 words, including tables, figures, and references): These articles are associated with specific events, invitations, or announcements.

 

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts must be typewritten on one side of the paper only, double-spaced on numbered pages with adequate margins, 0.5cm on both sides.  All articles should conform to the requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. An electronic copy of all manuscripts should be sent to the Editorial Office, via e-mail address jdanscientific@gmail.com This should be typed using Microsoft Word Processing Package (running under Windows). Each manuscript must be accompanied by a letter stating that the authors wish to have it evaluated for publication in the Journal of Dietitians Association of Nigeria. Authors may suggest the names and addresses of at least 3 appropriate reviewers. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to determine the final reviewer.

ORGANIZATION AND STYLE OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts must be written in concise and grammatically correct English, and thoroughly checked for typographical errors before submission. Manuscripts should be organized in the following sequence: title page, abstracts and keywords, main text (including figures, legends, and tables at the appropriate position), acknowledgments, and references. Please use separate pages for each of these sections, and ensure that all pages are numbered, beginning with the abstract as page 1

Page Title

This should include: (a) the paper's title, (b) an abbreviated version of the title not exceeding 50 characters (including spaces), (c) the names of the authors, including their first name(s), (d) the name of the department(s) and institution(s) where the work was conducted, along with the complete postal address, email addresses, and  ORCID identifiers of all the authors; (e) the name and complete postal address of the author to whom the galley proofs and requests for reprints should be sent.

 

Abstract

An original article must contain a structured abstract of not more than 300 words. The abstract should be divided into background, objective, methodology, results, and conclusion.

 

Keywords

Authors may list a maximum of five keywords for subject classification at the bottom of the abstract in both reviews and original articles.

 

Main Text

Original articles should conform to the following format:

• Introduction: This should start on a fresh page and should provide a brief review of the literature related to the subject of the paper. A short statement on the aims of the work should be presented.
• Methodology: This should be sufficiently detailed with reference where possible to permit other workers to duplicate the study. Sources of materials used must be given and statistical methods must be specified by reference unless non-standard ones are used.
• Results: This must be clearly and concisely reported with appropriate illustrative tables and or figures.
• Discussion: This section should explain the reasons for the results obtained as well as their implication and consequences. Conclusions made should be based on the findings of the study and evidence from the literature that supports conclusions. The discussion should also highlight conflicting evidence, the applicability of the study, the limitations of the study, and implications for future research. Unjustified speculations should be avoided.
• Acknowledgments: This should be brief and presented on a separate page. Technical assistance and advice may be acknowledged.

 

Reference

The number of references should be adequate and appropriate. Each reference should be cited in consecutive numerical order [in parenthesis] in the text and listed in the same numerical order at the end of the paper. References to materials on the Internet should include the author(s), the title of the article, and the date of access including the DOI of the article or book. Articles in press (i.e.) accepted for publication, may be included and cited appropriately indicating name, volume, and year in which journal would appear. Authors can use referencing software for their referencing their manuscripts. Choose the Vancouver bracket in the event of using referring software.

1. Journal:
2. Maduforo AN, Ogbuabo DA, Ndiokwelu CI, Okoro CE, Okwara CC, Ngwu EK. Glycaemic response and sensory attributes of four banana varieties in Enugu state, Nigeria. Asian Journal of Plant Science, 2020;19(4):412–8. DOI: 3923/ajps.2020.412.418
3. Nelson M, Atkinson M, Darbyshire S. Food Photography II: use of food photographs for estimating portion size and the nutrient content of meals’. British Journal of Nutrition, 1996;76 (1):31–49. DOI: 1079/bjn19960007
4. Books:

Mahan LK, Escott-Stump S, Raymond JL. Krause’s Food and the Nutrition Care Process. 13th ed. Elsevier Saunders; 2012.

Nelms MN, Sucher K, Lacey K, Roth SL. Nutrition Therapy and Pathophysiology [Internet]. 2nd ed. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning; 2011.

3. Reports:

International Diabetes Federation. Diabetes Atlas, Seventh Edition [Internet]. Brussels; 2015. Available from: https://www.diabetesatlas.org/upload/resources/previous/files/7/IDF%20Diabetes%20Atlas%207th.pdf

Foot Notes

All footnotes to the title, author’s names should be indicated by Arabic numerical superscripts, not by letters or other symbols. These footnotes should be typed at the bottom of the page in which they appear.

 

Tables

Tables should be typewritten on separate sheets numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.). Each table should include a title and be comprehensible without reference to the text. Tables adapted or reproduced from another source must acknowledge that source in a footnote.

Figures

Illustrations should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Details of charts and graphs must be clearly legible when reduced to the size used in the journals. Colour illustrations will be published when approved by the editorial board.

 

Publication Charges

Manuscripts are subjected to page charges at the current cost of publication, usually approved by the association. Authors will be asked to contribute to the cost of colour illustrations. There is a submission fee of five thousand Naira (N5000.00) and an article publication charge (APC) of twenty thousand Naira (N20,000.00) for Nigerian authors, while foreign authors pay APC of one hundred United States dollars ($100 USD) without submission fee.

 

Proofs

Galley proofs will be sent to the first author unless otherwise corresponding is indicated not to be the first author. Proofs should be returned within two days of receipt. Other than printers’ errors, any correction may be charged to the authors.

Reprints

Reprints may be purchased at the prices indicated in the reprint order form accompanying the galley proofs.

Abbreviations and Units

Abbreviations are to be used sparingly and given at the first mention of the word. Metric units (SI units) should generally be used.

Ethical Clearance and Informed Consent

Authors submitting manuscripts to the JDAN are expected to adhere to high ethical standards in their research. This includes obtaining the necessary ethical clearances and ensuring informed consent when human subjects are involved in the study. Please refer to the following guidelines:

 

1. Ethical Clearance:

• Authors conducting research involving human participants or animals must provide evidence of ethical clearance or approval obtained from relevant institutional review boards (IRBs), ethics committees, or regulatory bodies.
• Include details about the ethical approval, such as the name of the approving body, approval number, and the date of approval, in the manuscript.

2. Informed Consent:

• For studies involving human participants, authors must describe how informed consent was obtained from all participants or their legal guardians, and this process must comply with ethical standards.
• If the study involved vulnerable populations, such as children, the elderly, or individuals with diminished capacity, authors should provide additional information on how their consent was obtained and safeguarded.
• In cases where obtaining written consent was not possible, authors should explain the alternative methods used to ensure participant understanding and agreement.
• Authors should maintain records of informed consent documentation and be prepared to provide these records upon request.

3. Confidentiality and Anonymity:

• Authors should respect the confidentiality and privacy of research participants. Avoid disclosing any identifying information unless absolutely necessary for the research.
• Ensure that participant identities are anonymized or pseudonymized in the manuscript, tables, figures, and supplementary materials.

4. Compliance with Regulations:

• Authors must comply with all applicable local, national, and international regulations related to research involving human participants or animals.
• If the research involved investigational drugs or procedures, authors should mention any relevant regulatory approvals.
• Failure to provide evidence of ethical clearance or informed consent, or any ethical misconduct, may result in the rejection of the manuscript or post-publication actions in accordance with the journal's policies and ethical guidelines.

Authors are encouraged to review the journal's specific ethical guidelines and declarations related to research involving humans and animals to ensure full compliance. Upholding ethical standards is fundamental to the integrity and credibility of scientific research and publication.

 

Declaration of interest

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other individuals or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. If there are no conflicts of interest, please state: 'There are no conflicts of interest.

Changes to authorship

Authors are expected to carefully consider the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in the author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail or letter) from all authors stating their agreement with the addition, removal, or rearrangement. In the case of the addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Only in exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. During the Editor's consideration of the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended.

Peer-review process:

All submitted manuscripts are reviewed by the Editorial Board and then sent to two referees. Authors are typically notified of the acceptability of their manuscripts within 8 to 10 weeks. The corresponding or submitting author should send the paper to the journal's email, which is jdanscientific@gmail.com. The journal's editorial office checks the manuscript's content and arrangement to ensure it aligns with the journal's author guidelines, verifying that it includes the required sections and adheres to the journal's style. The quality of the paper is not assessed at this stage. The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) examines whether the paper is appropriate for the journal, sufficiently original, and interesting. If it does not meet these criteria, the paper may be rejected without further review.

 

The handling editor then invites two reviewers who conduct a thorough double-blind review (authors' names and affiliations are removed, and the authors do not know the reviewers). Reviewers are given an initial 21 days (subject to extension) to evaluate the manuscripts and provide recommendations following the journal's reviewers' guide. Based on the reviewers' recommendations, the manuscript is returned to the corresponding author for revision. After the authors have made the revisions, the Editor-in-Chief decides whether the manuscript will be accepted, requires further revision, or should be rejected, taking into account the reviewers' feedback. The final decision is made by the EIC.

 

Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, authors are asked to pay an article-processing charge (APC) as determined by the editorial board. Before the final printing, galley proofs are sent to authors for review, allowing for final minor corrections.

Archiving

The hard copy of the journal is archived in the editorial office while the online copy is archived in the journal website.

Ownership and management

The journal is owned and managed by the Dietitians Association of Nigeria. The editorial board including the editor-in-chief is changed periodically.

Corresponding Author

The corresponding author is the author responsible for communicating with the journal for publication. The corresponding author should ensure that no inappropriate contributors are listed as co-authors in the paper. All the co-authors should check the final draft of the manuscript before submitting it to the journal.

Availability Of Data and Materials

All manuscripts must include an ‘Availability of data and materials statement. Data availability statements should include information on where data supporting the results reported in the article can be found including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. By data, we mean the minimal dataset that would be necessary to interpret, replicate and build upon the findings reported in the article. We recognize it is not always possible to share research data publicly, for instance when individual privacy could be compromised, and in such instances, data availability should still be stated in the manuscript along with any conditions for access.

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING

The Journal of Dietitians Association of Nigeria is indexed in:

1. Society of African Journal Editors
2. Academic Accelerator
3. African Journal Online (AJOL)
4. All papers published in JDAN from 2021 have digital object identifier (DOI)

  

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Journal of Dietitians Association of Nigeria Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The relevant duties and expectations of authors, reviewers, and editors of the journal are set out below.

Duties of Editors

Decision on the Publication of Articles: The Editor-in-chief (EIC) of the Journal of Dietitians Association of Nigeria is responsible to make the decision regarding the publication of submitted articles. The EIC may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and subjected to such legal requirements. The Editor is authorized to carry out the decision in consultation with reviewers and editorial board members.

Fair play: The manuscripts should be evaluated solely on their intellectual merit without regard to author's race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.

Confidentiality: The Editor and editorial staff must not disclose any information about a manuscript that is submitted to the journal to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate. The editor must ensure the integrity of a double-blind peer-review and should not disclose the identity of the reviewers to the authors of that manuscript, and vice versa.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used by the editor or reviewer or anyone else who has a view of the manuscript while handling it in his or her own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution of Peer Review: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and editorial communications help the author to improve his paper.

Promptness: If a selected reviewer feels unqualified to review an article he/she should notify the Editor-in-Chief and should not take part in the review process. Reviews will be expected to be professional, honest, courteous, prompt, and constructive, their judgment should be objective.

Confidentiality: Manuscripts assigned to a reviewer must be treated as confidential documents. The manuscript(s) must not be shown to or discussed with, others except as authorized by the Editor in Chief.

Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. There shall be no personal criticism of the author. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers should mark the uncited work that is published previously. Authors are expected to provide the proper citation for each statement that is quoted from a previously published work. A reviewer should inform the EIC of any substantial similarity between the manuscripts assigned him for review and the other previously published paper of which they have personal knowledge or they have found the similarity during the review process.

Confidentiality: Information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Conflict of Interest: Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards: Authors of the original research article must present accurate data of work performed during their research. Authors are also expected to discuss the objective of their work and the significance of their results. An article should contain sufficient information and references to ensure the reproducibility of the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements are considered unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw/supplementary data for a paper that is under editorial review. The authors should be prepared to provide the public access to these data (if practicable) and to retain such data for a reasonable time after the publication.

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors should ensure the originality of their content while preparing a manuscript draft. In case the authors have used the work and/or words of others this must be appropriately cited or quoted. Articles submitted to JDAN will be screened for plagiarism using plagiarism detection software. In case, the similarity index exceeds 20% excluding the references, during the review/editorial process, such manuscript(s) will be required to be revised/rejected if the revision did not meet up with less than 20% similarity index. If the plagiarism is proven after publication, such manuscript(s) will be retracted from the journal and an appropriate announcement will be placed in this regard.

We can also consider appropriate action against authors depending upon the seriousness of the case which includes;

Debarring the authors from publication in the future.

1. Such incidents shall be brought to the notice of the author's funding agencies, author's institutions (place of works), and to the original authors whose work has been plagiarized.
2. COPE flow charts will also be considered while dealing with plagiarism complaints.
3. Suspected plagiarism in a submitted manuscript
4. Suspected plagiarism in a published manuscript

Redundant or duplicate submission/publication

Duplicate or redundant submission is the same manuscript (or the same data) that is submitted to different journals at the same time. International copyright laws, ethical conduct, and cost-effective use of resources require that readers can be assured that what they are reading is original. An author should not publish manuscripts that describe the same concept or present similar data, in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable and all such articles will be rejected immediately. In case the editor was not aware of the violation and the article has been published, a notice of the duplicate submission and the ethical violation will be published.

 

If duplicate publication is found or noticed from other sources, editorial board should check the status. If the duplicate publication is confirmed as intentional thing, then the following actions will be carried out: This should be reported to editorial board, author(s), and president of every author’s institute; This should be sent to the publisher who published same (or very similar) article; Article will be removed; All authors’ name will be marked as black list, and these authors cannot submit any article to Journal of Dietitians Association of Nigeria for 2 years or for an indefinite period.

 

Authorship of the Paper and corresponding author

Authorship of an article should be based only on substantial contributions to each of the four components mentioned below:

1. Concept and design of study or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data;
2. Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and final approval of the version to be published.
3. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content of the manuscript.
4. The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and writing the manuscript and/or as agreed by the authors.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Authorship

When it comes to AI authorship, current criteria do not apply to Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT. These models, including their outputs, do not possess authorship in the traditional sense as they lack accountability for the work they generate. Therefore, attributing authorship to LLMs is not feasible. Instead, the use of an LLM should be thoroughly documented in the Methods section of the manuscript. In cases where a Methods section is unavailable, an appropriate alternative section should be used for documentation.

Generative AI-Generated Images

The rapid advancement of generative AI in image creation has raised complex legal copyright and research integrity concerns. As publishers, we adhere strictly to existing copyright laws and ethical publication practices. While the legal landscape surrounding AI-generated images and videos remains largely unresolved, JDAN currently does not allow their use for publication. There are exceptions, however, for images and art obtained from agencies with which we have contractual agreements that ensure images are created in a legally acceptable manner. Additionally, images and videos directly referenced in articles specifically about AI will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Given the dynamic nature of this field, we anticipate rapid developments, and as such, we will regularly review and adapt this policy as necessary.

Please be aware that not all AI tools are generative. When non-generative machine learning tools are used to manipulate, combine, or enhance existing images or figures, authors should disclose this in the relevant caption upon submission to allow for a case-by-case review.

Monitoring

The EIC must ensure to establish the mechanism for monitoring and safeguarding of publishing ethics. All the complaints received from the reviewers or the authors or anybody else should be taken into proper consideration and appropriate action should be taken promptly for such complaints.

Retraction and Corrections

The published articles will be retracted if there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable. The retraction can be a result of scientific misconduct or honest error. To maintain the integrity of the scientific record, the retracted article will not be removed from the journal's website, however, a notice of retraction will be posted and is made freely available to all readers. Retraction can be published by the authors or the editor or the publisher. In rare cases involving legal infringement, the Publisher may remove an article. Bibliographic information about the article will be retained to ensure the integrity of the scientific record. We follow the COPE guidelines in such cases. Sometimes it may be necessary to publish corrections/erratum in an article published in the Journal to maintain the integrity of the academic record. Appropriate notice regarding the correction will be placed and made freely available to the readers. We are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.

Article withdrawal

We expect our authors to adhere to the highest standards of publication ethics and maintain the quality of their articles. To prevent the withdrawal of articles, we earnestly request the corresponding author to address issues related to authorship, publication ethics, and the accuracy of data and results at the time of manuscript submission. If an article is discovered to violate the ethical publishing guidelines of the journal, such as duplicate submission, fraudulent data, plagiarism, false claims of authorship, or other violations, the journal will initiate withdrawal procedures. In cases where the article is in the 'Online first' stage, it will be promptly removed from the website, and an appropriate notice of article withdrawal will be prominently displayed. It's important to note that a lack of response from the authors to journal communications after the review and provisional acceptance stages will also be considered as grounds for article withdrawal.

Preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards 

We believe that the funding agencies and sponsors should not be able to influence the author's findings or the decision-making. The editor should maintain the integrity of the academic record, preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards, and always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants, human data, or human tissue must: include a statement on ethics approval and consent (even where the need for approval was waived), include the name of the ethics committee that approved the study, and the committee’s reference number if appropriate. In addition, studies involving animals must include a statement on ethics approval. If your manuscript does not report on or involve the use of any animal or human data or tissue, please state “Not applicable” in this section.

Conflicts of interest

Authors must declare all sources of support for the research and any association with a product or subject that may constitute a conflict of interest.

Consent for publication

If your manuscript contains any individual person’s data in any form (including individual details, images or videos), consent for publication must be obtained from that person, or in the case of children, their parent or legal guardian. All presentations of case reports must have consent for publication.

You can use your institutional consent form if you prefer. You should not send the form to us on submission, but we may request to see a copy at any stage (including after publication). 

 

 

Thank you.

CORRESPONDENCE
All manuscripts and inquiries are to be directed to:
Dr. Aloysius Nwabugo Maduforo Ph.D., RDN
Editor-in-Chief,
E-mail: jdanscientific@gmail.com