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EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
PNIE adheres to the research and
publication ethics policies outlined in International Standards for Editors and
Authors
(https://publicationethics.org/resources/international-stan-dards-for-editors-and-authors)
and Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of
Scholarly work in Medical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/recommen-dations);
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors [ICMJE]). Any studies involving
human subject must comply with the principles of the World Medical Association
Declaration of Helsinki (2013;
https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/).
Clinical research should be approved by the Institutional Review Board, as well
through patient consent. A patient’s personal information cannot be published
in any form. However, if it is absolutely necessary to use a patient’s personal
information, the consent of the patient or his/her guardian will be needed
before publishing. Animal studies should be performed in compliance with all
relevant guidelines, observing the standards described in the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
Cases that require editorial expressions of
concern or retraction shall follow the Committee on Publication Ethic (COPE)
flowcharts available from: http://publicationethics.org/re-sources/flowcharts.
If correction is needed, it will follow the ICMJE Recommendation for
Corrections, Retractions, Republications and Version Control available from: http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/corrections-and-version-control.html.
Honest errors are a part of science and
publishing and require publication of a correction when they are detected.
Corrections are needed for errors of fact. Minimum standards are as follows:
First, it shall publish a correction notice as soon as possible, detailing
changes from and citing the original publication on both an electronic and
numbered print page that is included in an electronic or a print Table of
Contents to ensure proper indexing; Second, it shall post a new article version
with details of the changes from the original version and the date(s) on which
the changes were made through K-Mark; Third, it shall archive all prior
versions of the article. This archive can be either directly accessible to
readers; and Fourth, previous electronic versions shall prominently note that
there are more recent versions of the article via K-Mark.
1. Data Sharing and Data
Accessibility
The journal encourages authors to share the
data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in
an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility
statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this
statement can be published alongside their paper. This journal follows the data
sharing policy described in “Data Sharing Statements for Clinical Trials: A
Requirement of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors”. The
ICMJE's policy regarding trial registration is explained at
http://www.icmje.org/recom-mendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/clinical-trial-registration.html.
If the data sharing plan changes after registration this should be reflected in
the statement submitted and published with the manuscript, and updated in the
registry record.
2. Peer Review
The acceptance criteria for all papers are
the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our
readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are peer reviewed by two
anonymous reviewers and the Editor. Final acceptance or rejection rests with
the Editorial Board, who reserves the right to refuse any material for
publication. Authors should abide by the decision made, and if asked to submit
a revised version of their manuscript, do so by the designated due date.
Manuscripts should be written in a clear,
concise, direct style. Where contributions are judged as acceptable for
publication on the basis of scientific content, the Editor and the Publisher
reserve the right to modify typescripts to eliminate ambiguity and repetition
and improve communication between author and reader. If extensive alterations
are required, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision.
3. Ethical Considerations
Any experiments involving animals must be
demonstrated to be ethically acceptable and where relevant conform to national
guidelines for animal usage in research.
In taxonomic papers, type specimens and
type depositories must be clearly designated and indicated. Authors are
required to deposit the name-bearing type material in internationally
recognized institutions (not private collections).
When the research is carried out in areas
for which research permits are required (e.g. nature reserves), or when it
deals with organisms for which collection or import/export permits are required
(e.g. protected species), the authors must clearly detail obtaining these
permits in the Acknowledgments section.
4. Authorship Policy
All listed authors must have contributed
significantly to the paper, and all authors must be in agrement with the
content of the submitted manuscript and must approve of the final version.
Please see “Research Publication Ethics” for detailed information on Authorship
and Author’s Responsibilities.
5. Conflict of Interest
The journal requires that all authors
disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or
relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an
author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest.
These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work
that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of
interest include, but are not limited to, patent or stock ownership, membership
of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee
for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company.
The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. It is
the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all
authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent
commercial and other relationships.
6. Publication Ethics
This journal is a member of the COPE. Note
this journal uses the iThenticate tool of the Similarity Check program. For
more information on Similarity Check, see
https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/.
Reproduction of Copyright Material. If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are
included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is the author’s
responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the
copyright owners.
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
1. Submission
Thank you for your interest in PNIE. Note that
submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for
publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a
scientific meeting or symposium.
Once you have prepared your submission in
accordance with the Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at
https://acoms.kisti.re.kr/member/goLogin.do?journalSeq=J00 0177&msg=timeout
• At least two files should be submitted:
the covering letter and the manuscript. The covering letter should be uploaded
as a file not for review. Figures and tables should also be uploaded as
separate files. Figures and tables should also be uploaded as separate files.
• Submissions should be double-spaced.
• The top, bottom and side margins should
be at least 30 mm.
• All pages should be numbered
consecutively in the top right-hand corner, beginning with the title page.
• MS Word format is preferred.
The submission system will prompt you to
use an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCiD) to help distinguish your work
from that of other researchers.
For help with submissions, please contact:
• Homepage: http://www.nie.re.kr
• E-mail: pnie@nie.re.kr
• Tel: +82-41-950-5361, 5421, 5422
We look forward to your submission.
2. Publication Charges
To submit and publish a manuscript, PNIE
assesses charges by stages as following:
1) Submission: no charges.
2) Review: 20 USD is charged for the review
process (waived until December 31, 2023.)
3) Publication:
(1) Publication fee of NIE researchers: USD
500
(2) Publication fee of non-NIE researchers:
USD 1,000
Publication fee is waived until December
31, 2023.
3. Preparing Your Submission
Submissions should be double-spaced. The
top, bottom and side margins should be at least 30 mm. All pages should be
numbered consecutively in the top right-hand corner, beginning with the title
page.
• The entire article should be supplied as
a single file; only figures and tables should be supplied as separate files.
• Figures must be supplied as high
resolution .tif or .eps files. For more information, refer to 'Figures' later
in this document.
• Specify the first author’s surname, the
journal title and the manuscript number.
• MS Word format is preferred.
1)
Covering letter
Papers are accepted for publication in the
journal on the understanding that the content has not been published or
submitted for publication elsewhere. This must be stated in the covering
letter.
The covering letter must also contain an
acknowledgment that all authors have contributed significantly, and that all
authors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript. The role of each
author should be written.
Authors must declare any financial support
or relationships that may pose conflict of interest.
If tables or figures have been reproduced
from another source, a letter from the copyright holder (usually the
Publisher), stating authorization to reproduce the material, must be attached
to the covering letter.
2)
Pre-submission English-language editing
Authors for whom English is a second
language may be recommended to have their manuscript professionally edited
before submission to improve the English.
3)
Style of the Manuscript
Spelling. The journal uses US spelling and authors should therefore follow
the latest edition of the Merriam–Webster’s
Collegiate Dictionary.
Units. All measurements must be given in SI
or SI-derived units.
Abbreviations. Abbreviations should be used sparingly – only where they ease the
reader’s task by reducing repetition of long, technical terms. Initially use
the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use
the abbreviation only.
Trade
names. Chemical substances should be referred to by
the generic name only. Trade names should not be used.
Zoological
nomenclature. All papers must conform to the latest
edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Upon its first
use in the title, abstract and text, the common name of a species should be
followed by the scientific name (genus, species and authority) in parentheses.
Genus names should not be abbreviated at
the beginning of paragraphs.
Genetic
nomenclature. Standard genetic nomenclature should
be used.
Nucleotide
sequence data can be submitted in electronic form
to any of the three major collaborative databases: DDBJ, EMBL or GenBank. It is
only necessary to submit to one database as data are exchanged between DDBJ,
EMBL and GenBank on a daily basis. The suggested wording for referring to
accession-number information is: “These sequence data have been submitted to
the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under accession number U12345.”
Addresses are as follows:
DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)
http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp
EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Submissions
http://www.ebi.ac.uk
GenBank http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
MANUSCRIPT ORGANIZATION AND FORMAT
1. Word Length
The length of an article (including
references, tables and appendices) should not exceed 20 printed pages for
research papers and invited reviews.
2. Parts of the Manuscript
Manuscripts should be presented in the
following order: (i) title page, (ii) abstract and key words, (iii) text, (iv)
Conflicts of Interest, (v) acknowledgments (vi) references, (vii) tables (each
table complete with title and footnotes), (viii) figure legends and (viv)
appendices. Figures and supporting information should be supplied in separate
files, if relevant. Footnotes to the text are not allowed and any such material
should be incorporated into the text as parenthetical matter.
Original
Article Divide your article into clearly defined
sections. Each subsection is given a brief heading. Each heading should appear
on a separate line.
1)
Title page
The title page should contain:
(i) a short informative title that contains
the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations;
(ii) a short running title of less than 40
characters;
(iii) the full names of the authors and
ORCIDs of the authors;
(iv) the author's institutional
affiliations at which the work was carried out.
The present address of any author, if
different from that where the work was carried out, should be supplied in a
footnote.
2)
Abstract and keywords
All articles must have a brief abstract
that states in 250 words or fewer the purpose, basic procedures, main findings
and principal conclusions of the study. The abstract should not contain
abbreviations or references.
Up to six key words (for the purposes of
indexing) should be supplied below the abstract in alphabetical order. For the
selection of keywords, refer Medical Subject Heading in Index Medicus or in
internet site, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html
3)
Text
Authors should use the following
subheadings to divide the sections of their manuscript: Introduction, Materials
and Methods, Results, and Discussion.
(1)
Introduction
Study rationale and relevant background
information should be described clearly and concisely.
(2)
Materials and Methods
Study materials and methods should be
described in the following order: study design, materials and methods.
Ensure correct use of the terms sex (when
reporting biological factors) and gender (identity, psychosocial or cultural
factors), and, unless inappropriate, report the sex and/or gender of study
participants, the sex of animals or cells, and describe the methods used to
determine sex and gender. If the study was done involving an exclusive
population, for example in only one sex, authors should justify why, except in
obvious cases (e.g., prostate cancer). Authors should define how they
determined race or ethnicity and justify their relevance.
(3)
Results
Study results should be reported in a clear
and logical manner.
(4)
Discussion
The results must be explained in relation
to the hypotheses proposed in the Introduction. Keep in mind that the
Discussion must not be a mere restatement of the results. Authors must
emphasize new and important discoveries of the study and state the conclusions
drawn from the results in relation to the purpose of the study. The
shortcomings and limitations of the study must also be mentioned.
(5)
Author Contributions
PNIE recommends that authors submit a short
description of all contributions to their manuscript. Each author’s
contribution should be described in brief, to appear immediately before the
references. Authorship credit might include contributions to concept/design,
acquisition of data, data analysis/interpretation, drafting of the manuscript,
critical revision of the manuscript and approval of the article. Contributors
who do not qualify as authors can also be listed and their particular
contribution described.
(6)
Conflicts of Interest
The authors must disclose any potential
conflicts of interest possibly influencing the research or interpretation of
data at the time of submission. In particular, all sources of funding for a
study should be explicitly stated. Statements on conflict of interest have no
influence on the editorial decision to publish.
(7)
Acknowledgments
The source of financial grants and other
funding must be acknowledged, including a frank declaration of the authors’
industrial links and affiliations. The contribution of colleagues or
institutions should also be acknowledged. Personal thanks and thanks to
anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.
4)
References
The Harvard (author, date) system of
referencing is used (examples are given below). In the text, give the author’s
name followed by the year in parentheses: Smith (2000). If there are two
authors use 'and': Smith and Jones (2001); but if cited within parentheses use
‘&': (Smith & Jones 2001).
When reference is made to a work by three
or more authors, the first name followed by et al. should be used: MacDonald et
al. (2002). In the reference list, references should be listed in alphabetical
order.
In the reference list, cite the names of
all authors when there are six or fewer; when seven or more, list the first six
followed by et al. Do not use ibid. or op cit. Reference to unpublished data
and personal communications should not appear in the list but should be cited
in the text only (e.g. A. Smith, unpubl. data, 2005). All citations mentioned
in the text, tables or figures must be listed in the reference list.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of
the references.
(1)
Journal article
Sugumaran, M., Saul, S.J., and Ramesh, N.
(1985). Endogenous protease inhibitors prevent undesired activation of
prophenoloxidase in insect haemolymph. Biochemical and Biophysical Research
Communications, 132, 1124–1129.
(2)
Book
Chapman, R.F. (1971). The Insects Structure
and Function, 3rd ed. New York: Elsevier.
(3) Web
Sites
Chapman, K., & Brown, M. (2010). The
future of digital library in Asia. Digital Libraries, 7, 111-119. Retrieved May
5, 2010 from http://www.diglib.org/publist.htm.
(4)
Chapter in a book
Driever, M. (1993). Maternal control of
anterior development in the Drosphila embryo. In M. Bate, and A.M., Aris
(Eds.), The Development of Drosophila melanogaster (pp. 387–424). New York:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
(5)
Abstract
Hong, K.D., and Kim, L.P. (1997). The
sources and migratory pathway of locusts in Korea. Paper presented at The 50th
Annual Meeting of The Entomological Society of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
References
in articles
We recommend the use of a tool such as
EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting. EndNote reference
styles can be searched for here: http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp.
Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp.
5)
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and
complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text. Number tables
consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. Type tables on a separate page
with the legend above. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table,
legend and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text.
Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Column headings should
be brief, with units of measurement in parentheses; all abbreviations must be
defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that
order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures
such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.
6)
Figure legends
Type figure legends on a separate page.
Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be
understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any
symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement
(1)
Figures
All illustrations (line drawings and
photographs) are classified as figures. Figures should be cited in consecutive
order in the text. Figures should be sized to fit within the column (80 mm),
intermediate (110 mm) or the full text width (167 mm).
Do not embed figures in the Word document –
they must be supplied in separate files. Figures must be supplied as high
resolution (at least 300 d.p.i.) files, saved as .eps or .tif. Line figures
should be supplied in .eps format as at least 600 d.p.i.
For very simple line figures, .xls and .ppt
files will be accepted. Combination figures (with an image and text) should be
in .eps format as at least 600 d.p.i. They can be supplied as .tif files but if
so should be at least 600 d.p.i. and line work should not appear jagged. Line
figures should be supplied as sharp, black and white graphs or diagrams, drawn
professionally or with a computer graphics package. Lettering must be included
and should be sized to be no larger than the journal text.
Magnifications should be indicated using a
scale bar on the illustration.
7)
Appendices
Appendices will be published after the
references. For submission they should be supplied as separate files but
referred to in the text.
8)
Supporting Information
Supporting information is information that
is not essential to the article but that provides greater depth and background.
It is hosted online, and appears without editing or typesetting. It may include
tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc.
9)
Other Manuscript formats
General guidelines are same as for original
articles.
(1)
Case Reports
Unique cases that make an important
teaching point or scientific observation may be suitable for case report.
Abstract should be written in English within 150 words in one paragraph. This
should consist of title page, abstract, text (including Introduction, Case Report,
and Discussion), acknowledgments, conflicts of Interest, references, tables,
figures, and figure legends.
(2)
Review Articles
Review Article is expected to be focused
discussion of defined topics relevant to the scope of PNIE. General remarks are
same with original article. Manuscripts include a Title page (with a running
title), Abstract and Keywords, Text, References, Tables, and Figures. Abstract
should be written in English within 150 words in one paragraph. The text can be
written in free style. The review articles should be submitted in the same way
as regular papers and received the same review process.
AUTHOR LICENSING
If your paper is accepted, the author
identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting
them to complete a copyright license agreement on behalf of all authors of the
paper.
PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE
1. Accepted article received in
production
When your accepted article is received by
the production team, you (corresponding authors) will receive an email asking
you to login to sign a publication license at this point.
2. Proofs
Authors will receive an e-mail notification
with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Page proofs
should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or typesetting errors. Online
guidelines are provided within the system. No special software is required, all
common browsers are supported. Authors should also make sure that any
renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure
legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be
returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Return of proofs via e-mail
is possible in the event that the online system cannot be used or accessed.