Ethical Guidelines

1. Authorship and Contribution
Criteria for Authorship: All authors listed on a manuscript must have significantly contributed to the work, including the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the research.
Acknowledgement of Contributors: Individuals who contributed to the work but did not meet the authorship criteria should be acknowledged in the manuscript.
Changes to Authorship: All authors must approve any changes to the author list after submission, including additions or removals.

2. Conflict of Interest
Declaration: Authors must disclose any financial or personal relationships that could influence their work. This includes funding sources, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, and paid expert testimony.
Transparency: Conflict-of-interest statements will be published with the manuscript.

3. Research Ethics
Human and Animal Rights: Research involving human participants must comply with the Declaration of Helsinki, and research involving animals must follow institutional and national guidelines.
Informed Consent: Authors must ensure they obtained informed consent from all human participants and appropriate approvals from ethics committees or institutional review boards.

4. Data and Reproducibility
Data Availability: Authors must make their data available upon request and provide detailed methods for replicating the study.
Data Fabrication and Falsification: Any fabrication or manipulation of data is considered unethical and unacceptable.

5. Plagiarism and Duplicate Publication
Originality: All submitted manuscripts must be original work and not under consideration or published elsewhere.
Plagiarism Detection: Natural Products and Translational Medicine uses plagiarism detection software to screen manuscripts. Any detected plagiarism will result in rejection of the manuscript.