Each article must have a section with the declaration of conflicts of interest and the main author of the work is responsible for preparing the declaration and ensuring that all co-authors have reviewed and approved it.  In this declaration, the authors of the research must choose one of the following scenarios:

1. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have influenced the work presented in this paper.
2. The author is a member of the editorial board/editor-in-chief/associate editor/guest editor of the journal and was not involved in the editorial review or decision to publish this article.
3. The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships that may be considered potentially competing interests:
   • A participant in the writing, reviewing, and publishing process (author, reviewer, or editor) has ties to activities that may inappropriately influence his or her judgment, regardless of whether or not that judgment was affected. The most common conflict of interest lies in financial relationships, personal relationships, academic rivalry, or intellectual passion
   • Peers acting as external reviewers must disclose to the editors any conflict of interest that could bias their opinions on the manuscript and must excuse themselves from reviewing it if they deem it appropriate
   • Editors will be informed of the reviewers' conflicts of interest so that they can interpret their reports and judge for themselves whether they should disqualify them
   • Reviewers should not use their reading of the work to further their own interests, before the manuscript is published
   • When authors submit a manuscript for publication, they have the responsibility to acknowledge and declare their financial connections and any other conflicts of interest that could bias their work
   • Editors who make final decisions on manuscripts may not have financial or personal commitments to any of the authors and works they will judge
   • Editors involved in final decisions on manuscripts must provide an up-to-date description of their own financial interests (which could affect their editorial judgments) and refrain from any decisions in which they may have a conflict of opinion. interest