Duties of Authors:

• Reporting standards
• Data Access and Retention
• Originality and Plagiarism
• Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
• Acknowledgement of Sources
• Authorship of the Paper
• Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects
• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
• Fundamental errors in published works

Duties of Reviewers:

• Contribution to Editorial Decision
• Promptness
• Confidentiality
• Standards of Objectivity
• Acknowledgement of Source
• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
• Identification and prevention from publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred

Duties of Editors:

• Publication decision
• Fair play
• Confidentiality
• Disclosure and Conflicts of interest
• Involvement and cooperation in investigations
• Identification and prevention from publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred

Duties of Publisher:

• Pubilcation of the issues
• Advertisement
• Indexing of the issues
• Williness to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed

Competing Interests:

Authors should disclose in their manuscripts any financial or any other conflicts of interest that might have influenced the results presented or their interpretations thereof.

What Represents a Competing Interest?
A competing interest is anything that interferes with or could reasonably be perceived as interfering with the full and objective presentation, peer review, editorial decision-making and/or publication of research or non-research articles submitted to NJMM.

Competing interests can be financial or non-financial, professional or personal. Competing interests can arise in relation to an organisation or another person.

Declaring all potential competing interests is a requirement at NJMM and is integral to the transparent reporting of research.

Failure to declare competing interests can result in immediate rejection of a manuscript. If an undisclosed competing interest comes to light after publication, NJMM will take action following COPE guidelines and issue a public notification to the community.

Financial competing interests
Financial competing interests include but are not limited to:

• Ownership of stocks or shares
• Paid employment or consultancy
• Board membership
• Patent applications (pending or actual) including individual applications or those belonging to the institution to which the authors are affiliated and from which the authors may benefit
• Research grants (from any source, restricted or unrestricted)
• Travel grants and honoraria for speaking or participation at meetings
• Gifts

Non-financial competing interests
Non-financial competing interests include but are not limited to:

• Acting as an expert witness
• Membership in a government or other advisory board
• Relationship (paid or unpaid) with organisations and funding bodies including nongovernmental organisations, research institutions, or charities
• Membership of lobbying or advocacy organisations
• Writing or consulting for an educational company
• Personal relationships (i.e. friend, spouse, family member, current or previous mentor, adversary) with individuals involved in the submission or evaluation of a paper, such as authors, reviewers, editors, or members of the editorial board of NJMM journal
• Personal convictions (political, religious, ideological, or other) related to a paper's topic that might interfere with an unbiased publication process (at the stage of authorship, peer review, editorial decision-making, or publication

Note: competing interests statement quoted from PLOS.