下面的内容节选自Food and Chemical Toxicology Guide for Authors.
Conflict of Interest and Source of Funding.
A conflict of interest exists when an author or the author's institution has a financial or other relationship with other people or organizations that may inappropriately influence the author's actions. All submissions to Food and Chemical Toxicology must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest. Food and Chemical Toxicology may use such information as a basis for editorial decisions and may publish such disclosures if they are believed to be important to readers in judging the article.
Conflict of Interest Statements for Authors.
At the end of the text, under a subheading "Conflict of Interest Statement," all authors must disclose any financial, personal, or their relationships with other people or organizations within 3 years of beginning the work submitted that could inappropriately influence the work submitted. Examples of conflicts include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants. If there are no conflicts of interest, authors should state that there are none. Investigators should disclose potential conflicts to participants in clinical trials and other studies and should state in the manuscript whether they have done so. Food and Chemical Toxicology may decide not to publish on the basis of a declared conflict, such as the financial interest of an author in a company (or its competitors) that makes a product discussed in the paper.