Conflicts of Interest

A conflict of interest exists when personal, professional or financial considerations could affect, or appear to affect, someone’s judgement. [TO CONFIRM]

• Authors declare any funding and any relationships that could be seen as influencing their work.
• Reviewers decline to review a manuscript if they recognise the authors’ work and have a close relationship, rivalry or collaboration with them.
• Editors do not handle manuscripts by themselves, their students, close colleagues or relatives. Such manuscripts are handled by another editor, and the editor concerned takes no part in the decision.

Submissions from members of the editorial board receive the same double-blind review as any other submission.