Serving on an advisory board or as a consultant to such a company.Being an employee of a company that designs, manufactures, or sells respiratory care equipment.The following examples are considered conflicts of interest and require disclosure:

If no financial or other potential conflicts of interest exist, a statement to this effect must be included on the Title Page. The type of relationship (eg, consultant, speaker, employee) and monetary amount need not be specified. Disclosures of potential conflicts of interest should be for the previous 2-year period. Authors must fully disclosure of all potential conflicts of interest, whether or not related to the content of the paper.All authors are required to disclose all potential conflicts of interest, including specific financial interests and relationships and affiliations.A conflict of interest may exist whenever an author (or the author’s institution, employer, or immediate family member) has financial or personal relationships or affiliations that could influence or bias the author’s decisions, work, or manuscript.The Journal’s conflict of interest policy is as follows: The Editor will decide whether the presence of conflicts of interest affects the suitability of the manuscript for publication. 4 Disclosures must be made at the time of submission and must be indicated on the title page. The conflict of interest policy of Respiratory Care is consistent with that of JAMA, 1 ICMJE, 2 CSE, 3 and WAME. If any part of the material (other than a brief abstract submitted to a national or international meeting) has been published or is currently under consideration for publication elsewhere, you must provide copies of all related material at the time of submission.

The manuscript must not have been previously published elsewhere and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere, including online. The contributions of each author must be listed on the Title Page (literature search, data collection, study design, data analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript review).Īny editorial contributions made by outside organizations, persons, funding bodies, or persons employed by funding sources must be acknowledged on the Title Page. Persons who contribute such may be mentioned in the Acknowledgments. Authors must take responsibility for at least one component of the work, be able to identify who is responsible for each other component, and be confident in their co-authors’ integrity. Be able to publicly discuss and defend the manuscript’s contentĪuthorship is not based on obtaining funding, offering advice, or similar.Have participated in the research and in the shaping of the manuscript.Give consent to submission and publication of the work.Manuscripts must conform to the International Committee for Medical Journal Editors’ (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and to these instructions. Use the links below to jump directly to a specific section. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically using Manuscript Central. Prepare your manuscript according to these instructions. For consultation regarding manuscript style or queries about the submission process, contact the Editorial Office at. We offer authors the option to purchase FastTrack for their accepted articles (immediate posting online without copyediting) and/or Open Access (no subscription/free for anyone to view).

Respiratory Care does not currently charge authors any submission or publication fees. The Journal is published in both print and electronic formats. Respiratory Care welcomes original manuscripts related to the science of respiratory care.

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