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AGU Advances requires additional elements beyond what is in a “standard” paper.
Conflict of Interest Statement
All papers submitted to AGU Advances should include a conflict of interest (COI) statement in the manuscript file. The COI statement should be included in a separate section at the end of the manuscript entitled “Conflict of Interest Statement”. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also still state this within the COI section ("The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare."). To ensure that the editor and reviewers assigned have access to this information, manuscripts will not enter the peer review process unless this statement is included in the manuscript file.
Additionally, authors will also be required to fill out a separate COI disclosure form; an email will be sent to each author with instructions.
Any interest or relationship (financial or otherwise) that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to, patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication in this journal.
Human Studies and Subjects
For manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants, including but extending beyond medical research, journals should require a statement from authors to confirm that the appropriate ethical approval has been received, along with details of the approving ethics committee, and that the study conforms to recognized standards, see for example, Declaration of Helsinki; US Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects; European Medicines Agency Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice; or the Ethical Review Methods for Biomedical Research involving Humans adopted by the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China. (Credit: Wiley's Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics)
FAIR Data Policy
AGU requires that all data needed to understand, evaluate, and build upon the reported research must be available at the time of peer review and publication. Additionally, authors should make available software that has a significant impact on the research. Data, software, and other research objects (e.g. notebooks) should be made available in repositories that support preservation and reuse. An explicit Availability Statement in the Open Research section of the paper is required describing where readers can find and access the data (and software). Authors should include intext citations to data (and software) in the Open Research section and the full citation in the References section. The Reference List entries for the data and software citation (e.g., DOI, URL) should include a bracketed description of their contents. For example, if the Reference List entry corresponds to a dataset, please include [Dataset] in the Reference List entry. Guidance on what the Availability Statement and Citation should include along with templates and examples can be found at Data & Software for Authors.
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