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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • 1. The manuscript has been approved for submission to the East African Journal of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine by all authors.
  • 2. The manuscript has not been previously published nor accepted for publication in any other publications.
  • 3. Submission of this manuscript warrants the work is original and any borrowed graphics, photographs, text, or other materials to be included in the publication have been expressly approved for publication in East African Journal of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine by the lender of such materials. The written approval of the owner of the borrowed work is on permanent file. A courtesy statement citing the source of borrowed images is included in the legend accompanying such images.
  • 4. Any photograph in which a person is identifiable has the written permission of that person to publish their image in East African Journal of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine.
  • 5. This letter constitutes the formal transfer, assignment, and conveyance to East African Journal of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine (EAJAPM) of the copyright to the manuscript and associate materials in the event they are accepted for publication.

Copyright Notice

 Copyright

The author(s) should be the sole author(s) of the article and should have full authority to enter into the agreement and in granting rights (if any) which are not in breach of any other obligation. The author(s) should ensure the integrity of the paper and related works. Authors should mandatorily ensure that submission of the manuscript to this journal would result in no breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy. To protect authors and the journal against unauthorized reproduction of articles, the journal requires a copyright assigned to it as a publisher on conditions that authors may use their own materials at any time without permission. On acceptance of a submitted paper, authors should sign an appropriate copyright form.

 Plagiarism Policy

This journal strongly opposes the practice of duplicate publication or any type of plagiarism. 

This journal aims to publish original high-quality research work. Submission of a manuscript to this journal indicates that the study has not been published anywhere or not been submitted elsewhere for publication. If author(s) are using any part of a published paper (in English or any other language), they should give a proper reference or in any case, if required they should get permission from the previous publisher or copyright holder (whichever is suitable).  

Plagiarized manuscripts would not be considered for publication. If plagiarism is found in any published paper after an internal investigation, a letter would be immediately sent to all the authors, their affiliated institutes and funding agency, if applied and subsequently the paper will be retracted. Plagiarism policy of this journal is described below:

  • Plagiarism is when an author attempts to pass off someone else's work as his or her own.  It defines plagiarism as "the reuse of someone else’s prior ideas, processes, results, or words without explicitly acknowledging the original author and source.”
  • Plagiarism can be said to have clearly occurred when large chunks of text have been cut-and-pasted. Such manuscripts would not be considered for publication in this journal. Papers with confirmed plagiarisms are rejected immediately.
  • But minor plagiarism without dishonest intent is relatively frequent, for example, when an author reuses parts of an introduction from an earlier paper.
  • Duplicate publication, sometimes called self-plagiarism, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work without providing the appropriate references. This can range from getting an identical paper published in multiple journals, to 'salami-slicing', where authors add small amounts of new data to a previous paper. Self-plagiarism, also referred to as ‘text recycling’, is a topical issue and is currently generating much discussion among editors. Opinions are divided as to how much text overlap with an author’s own previous publications is acceptable.
  • In case of 'suspected minor plagiarism', authors are contacted for clarification. Depending on all these reports, reviewers and editors decide final fate of the manuscript.
  • Editors have the final decision power for these cases.