Funding
Funding
Disclosure Requirement
Authors must disclose all sources of financial support for the research reported in the manuscript, including funding received from government agencies, private foundations, industry sponsors, or institutional grants. This information should be included on the separate title page and in the Declarations section of the manuscript, not within the anonymized manuscript body, to preserve double-anonymized review.
Information to Include
For each funding source, authors should provide:
- The name of the funding body
- The grant or award number, where applicable
- A brief statement of the funder's role (or explicit confirmation of no role) in the study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, or decision to publish
No External Funding
Where no external funding was received, authors should include a statement such as: "This research received no external funding."
Funder Influence on Editorial Decisions
Consistent with the journal's Editorial Independence Statement, disclosed funding sources have no bearing on editorial decisions. Manuscripts are evaluated solely on scholarly merit, regardless of the source or presence of funding.
Funding Related to Applied Research
Where a submission reports research conducted in partnership with, or funded by, the organization in which it was implemented (relevant to the journal's emphasis on applied, real-world research), this relationship must be clearly disclosed, as it may constitute a relevant competing interest requiring careful reader transparency, even where it does not disqualify the work from consideration.
