WRITING GUIDELINES

Multiple article types are accepted, ranging from plain-text rapid communications (Telegrams), through illustrated scientific reports, up to complex and exhaustive compilations of knowledge. Before writing for CRICKETT, if you haven't already done so, please familiarize yourself with the journal's general scope and policies published on the "About" sub-page. Then, proceed to the Instructions for Authors...

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

It's easy and straightforward:

By e-mail. Send us a single *.doc or *.pdf file, or a *.zip archive if needed, to:
submit@crickett.org

Via a fully automated upload form:
Go to the online Manuscript Submission Portal...

Authors may use the above e-mail or form also to make pre-submission inquiries - i.e., to learn about the suitability of their proposed manuscripts or data sets for CRICKETT, or to propose interesting review article topics, or to publish conference proceedings, or similar requests. ■

FEES

A completely free publication model is available, with free or paid manuscript processing steps. Manuscript submission and final publication are always free in CRICKETT. Manuscript processing fees are waived for disciplined Authors who pass all quality checks and submit all required forms duly filled and pre-final proofs duly corrected and errorlessly formatted before the defined deadlines. For details, go to the CRICKETT Schedule of Fees...

HUMAN SUBJECTS IN RESEARCH

All human study participants must sign a detailed informed consent. Authors should remove information from photographs and manuscripts that might identify any individual patient. If this is impossible or undesirable, manuscript submissions must be accompanied by a written release consent from each respective patient / person. ■

CLINICAL TRIALS

CRICKETT requires full adherence to the clinical trial registration procedures published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Researchers shall register their trials in acceptable registries before the onset of patient enrollment. Furthermore, based on the same rules, investigators are required to submit a data-sharing statement (2018) and register a data-sharing plan when registering a trial (2019). At the moment, CRICKETT accepts all types of data-sharing plans, until the precise policies are adopted internationally. To be acceptable, a registry must be owned by a non-for-profit entity, be publicly accessible, and contain the 20 fields required by the World Health Organization (WHO). The list of eligible registries can be accessed at the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). Each manuscript will be checked on submission to determine whether the study needed registration, and whether the current registration is complete and meaningful. Manuscripts presenting primary results of unregistered or wrongly registered trials will be declined without peer-review. Pilot (phase 1) trials that began on or after July 1, 2008 must be registered before first patient enrollment. ■

ANIMAL WELFARE

The involvement of these categories of animals must be addressed separately: Primates, non-primate vertebrates, other animals. The related permissions must be described, and adherence to the principles of the 3 Rs (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement), with a literal reference to these principles, is a mandatory condition for publication in CRICKETT. ■

ECOLOGY

All articles must include information on relevant permissions to create or use genetically modified organisms (GMO), hazardous waste, water and air pollution, and radiation sources penetrating outside the premises or spreading to the environment. Justification for research involving wildlife or alterations of natural environments must be provided, together with listing permissions / approvals for such research, and explaining adherence to specific laws or other regulations. ■

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Authors from commercial entities are equally eligible like anyone else to publish their research findings and views in CRICKETT. The same applies to editing and reviewing. However, to ensure the most accurate impactful research reports and truly objective influential review articles, all CRICKETT publications must be factographically reliable, impartial in conclusions and suggestions, and therefore free from unfair commercial influences on both authorship and editing. Go to the CRICKETT's COI Policy...

COPYRIGHT & LICENSING

The Publisher protects all its published materials with copyright and other intellectual property rights. Authors are a privileged category receiving special freedoms and extensive permissions to freely reuse their work. Go to the CRICKETT's Copyright & Licensing...

ADVERTISING

CRICKETT is not primarily driven or motivated by advertising, but it optionally publishes modest and unobtrusive advertisements - especially if they can be useful to Readers or if they thematically supplement the place where they are displayed. However, CRICKETT advertisements are never shown in articles and are kept separated from the scientific contents. Advertisements are never tied to Readers' behavior and we are not spying on our users. Advertisements can be displayed randomly or in a certain defined static order. Advertisements are disregarded or approved by the Publisher directly; the Editors are not involved in this process, and there is no connection with the editorial decision-making. CRICKETT never advertises general merchandise (groceries, shoes, apparel...). There are no fixed advertising fees, and free advertising is possible. The preferred types of advertisements include unique technologies, high-end health care, promoting our eventual sponsors (if any; the sponsorship relation is always disclosed), technology transfer opportunities, fundraising solicitations for non-profits, action prompts in disaster situations, books, databases, project collaboration opportunities, conference announcements, scientific and other expert job postings, and the related. ■