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•  If the submitted manuscript is suspected of plagiarism, it will be rejected in whole or in part, and if plagiarism is determined after publication, the journal will follow cope instructions in the field of withdrawal, and correction;
• After consulting the respective Editorial Board Members, authors guilty of plagiarism will be debarred from publishing their papers in Journal of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences for at least 2 years.
• Heads of the Departments/Institutes of the offending authors will be intimated of such incidences of plagiarism.
• In case of confirmation of plagiarism on an already published article, the Editor will be obliged to withdraw the article from the journal website.

Human and animal rights:

Research involving human subjects, human material, or human data, should include a statement that the studies performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by an appropriate ethics committee. If a study has been granted an exemption from requiring ethics approval, this should also be detailed in the manuscript (including the name of the ethics committee that granted the exemption). Authors will be expected to have obtained ethics committee approval and informed patient consent for any experimental use of a novel procedure or tool where a clear clinical advantage based on clinical need was not apparent before treatment.

Data sharing:

The Journal of Shahid Sadoughi universiy of Medical Sciences of Yazd encourages authors to share their research data (raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols, methods, materials) if the issues related to privacy and security is not violated. if the authors have archived and shared data or other artefacts supporting the results in the artice in public repositories, it is necessary to provide the data accessibility statement to the journal so that this statement is published alongside their paper.

the data accessibility statement includes the name of the repository used, and the unique indentifier (Digital Objecr Identifier or Reference Number), link to the repository used (Unique Locator of the Resource) and any instructions for accessing the data, if applicable.

Archiving Policy:
The journal is now archiving its articles electronically via repositories of Eprints, and Google Scholar.