In regard to the process of reviewing and assessing the manuscripts, including the ethical guidelines and plagiarism/ duplicate publication and study misconduct, it should conform to the ethical guidelines specified in the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/);, which were established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). 

This journal uses double-blind peer review for all initial manuscripts and revised manuscripts of major revision, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, during the review process.