Natural Product Communications

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Data policy: Authors are encouraged to share research data in a relevant public data repository, include a data availability statement linking to their data, and cite the data in their research. If it is not possible to share data, the statement should confirm why it cannot be shared. Model summary

The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…

Publication ethics: The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors are encouraged to follow Sage's Publication Ethics Policies, the ICMJE Recommendations, and the Committee on Publication Ethics' International Standards for Authors. Model summary

Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…

Natural Product Communications is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid b…

The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single Anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…

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Preprint policy: The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Authors should enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting and inform the Journal Editorial office about the posted preprint at submission. Authors should not post an u Model summary

The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…

The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.