STATEMENT OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL RIGHTS

Human rights. All papers submitted to the Research in Exercise and Sports Medicine, if the experiments involve human subjects, should provide the “statement of human rights”. Manuscripts lacking the statement will not be considered for the review process and publication.

In the Materials and methods section of the manuscript, all procedures involving humans must be fully described and must include an explicit and easily identifiable statement pointing out that the procedures applied were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 and 2008. The following is an example statement:

The ethical approval for this study was issued as the ethical code for grant number … from the Committee on Research Ethics of … (code …), based on the Ethical Guidelines of Research from …, and under the Declaration of Helsinki.

Animal rights. All papers submitted to the Research in Exercise and Sports Medicine, if the experiments involve animal subjects, should provide the “statement of animal rights”. Manuscripts lacking the statement will not be considered for the review process and publication. If reporting experiments on animals, authors must indicate in the Materials and methods section of the manuscript, that the institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory/model animals were followed. The following is an example statement:

The ethical approval for this study was issued as the ethical code for grant number … from the Committee on Research Ethics of … (code …), based on the Ethical Guidelines of Research from ….