Duplicate Publication
“Journal of Clinical Sexology” require authors to state, in their cover letter, that their paper has not already been published or been submitted to another journal. On acceptance, a transfer of copyright to the Journal of Clinical Sexology will be required.
Human studies must be performed with the subjects’ written informed consent (JSC-Patient consent Form- EN), (JSC-Patient consent Form- RO), and (JCS- Statement of Informed Consent).
Authors must provide the details of this procedure and indicate that the institutional committee on human research has approved the study protocol. Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in your paper. Patients have a right to privacy. Therefore, identifying information, including patients’ images, names, initials, or hospital names, should not be included in written descriptions and photographs. Articles concerning human or animal research should comply with the Declaration of Helsinki and this must be stated in the “Materials and Methods” section (https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/), (JCS–Statement of Human and Animal Rights).
Reproducibility, Plagiarism, and Falsification
Authors must report their work accurately and precisely in order to be reproduced by other researchers independently. Plagiarism and falsification in any parts of the submitted paper are serious offenses to the scientific community and must strictly be avoided.
Authorship
The co-authors should be limited to those who have sufficiently contributed to the content of the work in a responsible and accountable manner. The corresponding author must confirm that submission of the manuscript has been approved by all co-authors.
Copyright
JCS is an open-access journal. All content is freely available without charge to any user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. The only requirement is that the work or the author be referred to in your research as a bibliographic source.
For submission to JCS, the corresponding author of the article must agree to transfer the copyright and assign all rights to the submitted article (and any revisions or versions of it) solely to the journal, to print, publish, and distribute the article in all languages and media internationally, (JCS Copyright Statement). The transfer of copyright is deemed in effect if and when the submitted article is accepted for publication. If the submitted article contains any material already protected by prior copyright, the corresponding author must deliver written permission from the copyright holder for the reproduction of the material in the article to the journal’s editorial office.
Conflict of Interests
Journal of Clinical Sexology requires that each author, reviewer, and editor must disclose to the editor-in-chief any conflict of interest related to family, personal, financial, political, or religious issues as well as any competing interest. Whether or not a conflict of interest and financial support exist, they must be declared at the JCS Conflict of Interest and Authorship Conformation Form as well as at the end of the manuscripts. If a reviewer, an associate editor, or a section editor has a conflict of interest and/or believes that it is not appropriate to be a reviewer or an editor for a given manuscript, the reviewer or the editor should resign from the assignment.