Future Integrative Medicine

Manuscripts under review are confidential. Reviewers must not upload unpublished manuscripts, figures, tables, supplementary files, review reports, or any confidential manuscript-related information to public AI platforms.

The Authors’ Contributions should be provided in paragraph form following the authors’ names and affiliations and corresponding author(s)’ information. The manner in which each author was involved with the study or preparation of the manuscript is listed with the author’s name (shown as initials, within parentheses). Contributions that are acceptable for inclusion as an author are: study design, p…

All authors must check the ICMJE’s unified disclosure form. Each author should check the form to disclose any potential conflict of interest and is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the provided information. The ICMJE’s form can be downloaded here.

A Data Sharing Statement is required for research articles through which readers will know how to access the shared data. Sample wording: The [TYPE, such as technical appendix, statistical code, or dataset] data used to support the findings of this study have been deposited in the [NAME] repository ([DOI or other persistent identifier]); The [TYPE] data used to support the findings of this study a…

Follows COPE and ICMJE ethics recommendations Model summary

Please ensure that any manuscript you submit to FIM conforms to the recommendations for ethics of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Copyright retained by authors Model summary

The copyright on all published articles will be retained by the authors unless stated otherwise. Authors grant FIM the sole, worldwide, and exclusive right to publish (i.e., print, publish, sell, and otherwise commercially exploit), reproduce, display, and store the published articles.

Open access under CC BY-NC 4.0 Model summary

Future Integrative Medicine (FIM) adopts open access publishing model, and all articles are distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Under this license, anyone may copy, distribute, or reuse these articles for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited. Manuscripts submitted for publication in an open acces…

The objective of the peer review process is to ensure the integrity and transparency of the research objectives, data, and conclusions.Editorial ProcessAll articles, solicited and unsolicited, that are submitted to FIM will be subject to the following single blind peer review process, meaning that the author does not know the identity of the reviewer, but the reviewer knows the identity of the aut…

Plagiarism check via Crossref Similarity Check Model summary

Plagiarism is defined by the FIM as use of information, including textual descriptions, figures/tables and data, from a previously published document without proper citation or reference to the original source. All submitted manuscripts will be checked using plagiarism detection software (Crossref Similarity Check).

A preprint is the version of an article before peer-review. Authors are not requested to remove a preprint from a not-for-profit preprint server before submission. Upon acceptance, we recommend including an acknowledgement of acceptance on the first page, as follows:

Self-archiving permitted without embargo Model summary

Authors of articles published in FIM are permitted to self-archive the preprint version of the article at any time, and may self-archive the postprint and published version without embargo.

To enhance the quality and transparency of health research, FIM requires all investigators to prepare articles according to appropriate EQUATOR research reporting guidelines. Each submission of an original article/systematic review/meta-analysis/case report/study protocol should be accompanied by an appropriate checklist as listed below. Authors can find more guidelines at EQUATOR and should indic…