Annals of Coloproctology

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A conflict of interest exists when an author (or the author’s institution), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence (bias) their actions (such relation- ships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties). These relationships vary from being negligible to having great potential for influencing judgment. Not all r…

ACP encourages data sharing wherever possible, unless this is prevented by ethical, privacy, or confidentiality matters. Authors wishing to do so may deposit their data in a publicly accessible repository and include a link to the DOI within the text of the manuscripts. ACP accepts the ICMJE Recommendations for data sharing statement policy on clinical trials (https://www.icmje.org/recommendations…

Copyright transfer agreement required; copyright owned by KSCP. 模型摘要

The copyrights for all published materials (including graphical abstracts) of ACP are owned by KSCP. The corresponding author must sign and submit the copyright transfer agreement form upon submission. The paper will not be published until the copyright transfer is complete. Permission must be obtained from KSCP for any commercial use of the materials. Open access policy ACP is an open access jour…

Open access under CC BY-NC 4.0; immediate availability without embargo; copyright owned by KSCP; self-archiving allowed; data sharing encouraged; archiving, preprint, advertising, and Crossmark policies listed. 模型摘要

ACP is an open access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, as long as the original work is properly cited. All contents of the journal are immediately available upon publication without an embargo period. Authors …

Submission • Online submission: Manuscripts are directly submitted to ACP via the journal’s submission page (https://submit.coloproctol.org/). Once you have registered and logged into your account, the online system will lead you through the steps of the submission process. All articles submitted to the journal must comply with the instructions. Failure to do so will result in the return of manusc…

Preprint servers and sharing allowed; duplicate submission prohibited. 模型摘要

ACP allows authors to submit preprints to the journal. A preprint refers to a version of a scholarly paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Submitting a preprint to ACP will not be considered as duplicate sub- mission or publication. ACP advises authors to mention the existence of the preprint, along with its DOI, in the cover letter during the…

ACP is an open access journal, which allows authors to freely share their research in various ways, such as preprint servers, social media platforms, conferences, and educational materials, in accordance with our open access policy. However, authors are strictly prohibited from submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals. Data sharing policy ACP encourages data sharing wherever possible, u…

For specific study designs, such as randomized control studies, studies of diagnostic accuracy, meta-analyses, observational studies, and nonrandomized studies, authors should follow the relevant reporting guidelines (Table 2). The submission of the checklists as supplementary materials is recommended; checklists should list which page of your research article each checklist item appears. Recommen…