Editorial Policies

Dove Medical Press is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and endorses the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals as well as the GPP3 guidelines regarding authorship.

Submission of a manuscript to a Dove Medical Press journal implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content and that the manuscript conforms to the journal’s policies.

Updated 18 September 2017