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Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Authorship Responsibility, Disclosure, and

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Completed forms must be submitted online through Editorial Manager along with the article in order for your submission to be sent for peer review. Any relevant current or past conflicts of interest or sources of funding listed on this form must also be included on the Title page of the manuscript (as indicated in the Instructions for Authors). Submissions which do not comply with these instructions will be returned to the author for correction prior to review. If you have questions about the submission process, please contact: Candy Peabody, Managing Editor, jcg@https://www.wendangku.net/doc/1213745576.html,.

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AUTHORSHIP RESPONSIBILITY: Each author warrants that he or she has participated sufficiently in the intellectual content, the analysis of data, if

applicable, and the writing of the Work to take public responsibility for it. Each has reviewed the final version of the Work, believes it represents valid work, and approves it for publication. Moreover, should the editors of the Publication request the data upon which the work is based, they shall produce it.

PREPRINTS: Upon acceptance of the article for publication, each author warrants that he/she will promptly remove any prior versions of this Work (normally a preprint) that may have been posted to an electronic server.

DISCLAIMER: Each author warrants that this Work contains no libelous or unlawful statements and does not infringe any other personal or proprietary right of others, nor contains any fraudulent, plagiarized or incorrectly

attributed material. If excerpts (e.g., text, figures, tables, illustrations, or audio/video files) from copyrighted works are included, a written release will be secured by the author prior to submission, and credit to the original

publication will be properly acknowledged. Each author further warrants that he or she has obtained, prior to submission, written releases from patients

whose names or likenesses are submitted as part of the Work. Should the Editor or LWW request copies of such written releases, the author shall provide them in a timely manner.

DISCLOSURES/CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Each author must identify any financial interests or affiliations with institutions, organizations, or companies relevant to the manuscript by completing the form below. Additionally, any financial associations involving spouse or partner or children must be disclosed as well.

Note: Items 1, 2, and 3 listed below come from the ICMJE Uniform

Disclosure Form for Potential Conflicts of Interest at https://www.wendangku.net/doc/1213745576.html,/update.html (dated July 2010), except for the columns in numbers 1 and 2 that ask whether the relationship is current, ongoing, or past.

Conditions of Submission

1. The work under consideration for publication

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Author(s) Posting of Articles to an Institutional Repository

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology will permit the author(s) to deposit for display a "final peer-reviewed manuscript" (the final manuscript after peer-review and acceptance for publication but prior to the publisher's copyediting, design, formatting, and other services) 12 months after publication of the final article on his/her personal web site, university's institutional repository or employer's intranet, subject to the following:

* You may only deposit the final peer-reviewed manuscript.

* You may not update the final peer-reviewed manuscript text or replace it with a proof or with the final published version.

* You may not include the final peer-reviewed manuscript or any other version of the article in any commercial site or in any repository owned or operated by

any third party. For authors of articles based on research funded by NIH, Welcome Trust, HHMI, or other funding agency, see below for the services that LWW will provide on your behalf to comply with "Public Access Policy" guidelines.

* You may not display the final peer-reviewed manuscript until twelve months after publication of the final article.

* You must attach the following notice to the final peer-reviewed manuscript: "This is a non-final version of an article published in final form in (provide complete journal citation)".

* You shall provide a link in the final peer-reviewed manuscript to the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology website.

"Public Access Policy" Funding Disclosure

Please disclose below if you have received funding for research on which your article is based from any of the following organizations:

A number of research funding agencies now require or request the author to submit the final peer-reviewed manuscript (the article after peer review and acceptance but not the final published article) to a repository that is accessible online by all without charge. Within medical research, three funding agencies in particular have announced such policies:

* The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) requires the author to deposit the final peer-reviewed manuscript based on NIH-funded research in its repository PubMed Central (PMC) within twelve months after publication of the final article in the journal.

* The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) requires as a condition of research grants, deposit in PMC, but in its case within six months after publication of the final article.

* The Wellcome Trust requires, as a condition of research grants, deposit in UK PubMed Central within six months after publication of the final article.As a service to our authors, LWW will identify to National Library of Medicine (NLM) articles that require deposit. This Copyright Transfer Agreement provides the mechanism for identifying such articles.

LWW will transmit the final peer-reviewed manuscript of an article based on research funded in whole or in part by one or more of these three agencies to Pub Med Central.

Upon NIH request, it remains the legal responsibility of the author to confirm with NIH the provenance of his/her manuscript for purposes of deposit. Author will not deposit articles his/herself. Author will not alter the final peer-reviewed manuscript already transmitted to NIH.

Author will not authorize the display of the final peer-reviewed manuscript

prior to:

(a) 12 months following publication of the final article, in the case of NIH,

(b) 6 months following publication of the final article, in the case of Welcome

Trust and HHMI

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