Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research
Instructions to Authors
I. Journal Publication Policies and Procedures
AAIR has agreed to follow the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (the “Uniform Requirements”) of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the full text of which is available at http://www.icmje.org. The manuscript submission instructions set forth in the AAIR e submission Instructions are consistent with the March 2009 version of the Uniform Requirements. Each author is responsible for fully understanding all requirements listed below.
Authors must submit all manuscripts electronically. To submit a manuscript, please prepare it according to the Guidelines for Manuscript Preparation.
A. Authorship and Contribution
AAIR defines an “author” as a person whose participation in the work is sufficient for taking public responsibility for all portions of the content. Specifically, all authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following:
(1) conception and design of the study, acquisition of the data, or analysis and interpretation of the data
(2) drafting of the article or critical revision of the article for important intellectual content
(3) final approval of the version to be submitted.
When authorship is attributed to a group, all authors must meet the listed criteria and must be responsible for the quality, accuracy, and ethics of the work. All authors must participate in determining the order of authorship.
B. Ethics
For submission to AAIR, studies on human beings must comply with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and its recommendations guiding physicians in biomedical research involving human subjects (adopted by the 18th World Medical Assembly, Helsinki, Finland, June 1964 and amended by the 29th World Medical Assembly, Tokyo, Japan, October 1975; the 35th World Medical Assembly, Venice, Italy, October 1983; and the 41st World Medical Assembly, Hong Kong, September 1989). To satisfy this requirement, authors must obtain appropriate informed consent from the study subjects. Investigational protocols must have been reviewed and approved by a formally constituted IRB for human studies. Authors must state in the Methods section that they have received IRB approval for their study or have received a statement from the IRB that IRB approval was unnecessary. In the submission of selected series such as case reports that have no Methods section, authors must address IRB approval in the cover letter to AAIR. When reporting experiments in animals, authors should indicate whether institutional and national guides for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.
C. Privacy and Informed Consent
Authors must omit from their manuscripts any identifying details regarding patients and study participants, including patient names, initials, social security numbers, and hospital numbers. Patient details may be included only if they are essential for scientific purposes and the authors obtain written informed consent for publication from the patient, parent, or guardian. Additionally, all authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscript complies with the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (www.hhs.gov/ ocr/hipaa) where necessary.
D. Duplicate and “Salami” Publication Submissions will be considered for publication in AAIR only if they are submitted solely to AAIR and do not overlap substantially with a previously published article. Any manuscript with a hypothesis, sample characteristics, methodology, results, and conclusions that are similar or nearly similar to those of a published article is considered a duplicate article and is prohibited. AAIR also prohibits socalled “salami” publishing, which involves the “slicing” of data collected from a single research process or single study period into different pieces to form the basis of multiple manuscripts published in different journals or the same journal. If any material related to the submission (other than a brief abstract or meeting abstract) has been published in any medium, is in preparation, or has been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere, the authors must provide copies of all such manuscripts and other materials, and must outline the relationship between the materials so as to avoid any possibility of duplicate publication.
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