Authors are required to submit an Author Agreement Form immediately after acceptance of the manuscript. Corresponding author of the manuscript can sign and submit the form on behalf of all co-authors. Author Agreement Form must be received by the Editorial Office before the manuscript is published in the journal.
The corresponding author must sign all the following sections of the Author Agreement Form separately before submitting it to the Editorial Office.
Section - I: Integrity and originality of manuscript
Section - II: Open access agreement
Section - III: Rights of authors and publishers
Section - IV: Permission to reproduce published material
Section - V: Patient's consent to publish
Section - VI: Conflict of interest
The form can be submitted to the Editorial Office either as scanned images (e.g. jpg or jpeg format) or as pdf files.
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Use the 'Submit Forms/Permissions' page accessible from the top "Submit" menu.
Submit by email:
Submit the forms as email attachments to: 
Submit by Fax:
Fax the forms to: +1-302-4165109
Note: If submitting through the website please note that there are multiple file upload boxes for the forms. Please select the name of the form being submitted and then attach the pages of the form as image files or PDF files. Please submit one form at a time. If the Author Agreement Form or other forms are sent by fax, the faxed forms must have legible names and signatures.
Download the Author Agreement Form (PDF File).
