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2.3.3.4 Financial Support and Sponsorship
All sources of funding for the study reported should be declared. The role of the funding body in the experiment design,
collection, analysis and interpretation of data, and writing of the manuscript should be declared. Any relevant grant numbers
and the link of funder’s website should be provided if any. If the study is not involved with this issue, state “None.” in this
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2.3.3.5 Conflicts of Interest
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In such cases, in place of itemized disclosures, we will require authors to state “All authors declared that they are bound by
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2.3.3.6 Consent for Publication
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2.3.3.7 Copyright
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2024.” will be added to each article. Authors are required to sign License to Publish before formal publication.

2.3.3.8 References
References should be numbered in order of appearance at the end of manuscripts. In the text, reference numbers should be
placed in square brackets and the corresponding references are cited thereafter. List all authors when the number of authors
is less than or equal to six, if there are more than six authors, only the first three authors’ names should be listed, other
authors’ names should be omitted and replaced with “et al.”. The journal’s name should be required to be italicized and
the journal references should have corresponding DOI numbers. Information from manuscripts accepted but not published
should be cited in the text as “Unpublished material” with written permission from the source. Journal names should be
abbreviated according to the List of Title Word Abbreviations.
References should be described as follows, depending on the types of works:
Types Examples
Journal articles by Cao MS, Pan LX, Gao YF, et al. Neural network ensemble-based parameter sensitivity analysis in
individual authors civil engineering systems. Neural Comput Applic 2017;28:1583-90. [DOI: 10.1007/s00521-015-2132-4]
Organization as author Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in
participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension 2002;40:679-86. [DOI: 10.1161/01.
HYP.0000035706.28494.09]
Both personal authors and Vallancien G, Emberton M, Harving N, van Moorselaar RJ; Alf-One Study Group. Sexual dysfunction
organization as author in 1,274 European men suffering from lower urinary tract symptoms. J Urol 2003;169:2257-61. [PMID:
12771764 DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000067940.76090.73]
Journal articles not in Mao X, Ding YK. Sentiment feature analysis and harmonic sense evaluation of images. J Electronic
English 2001;29:23-7. (in Chinese)
Journal articles ahead of Cong Y, Gu CJ, Zhang T, Gao YJ. Underwater Robot Sensing Technology: A Survey. Fundamental
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ebook chapter Hammond, C. Crystal Symmetry. In The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction, 4th ed.;
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