NJA requires authors and reviewers to declare and complete the declaration of interest section in the author submission and peer review process.  All submitted manuscripts must include a ‘competing interest’s declaration’ as outlined in the author guidelines section.

All competing interests (financial and non-financial) should be listed by Authors and; “The authors have declared no competing interests” should be stated where there is none.  This also applies to Editors and reviewers who should declare any competing interests if any, and will be excluded from the peer review process.