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Author Instructions
3.2 Research Involving Animals
Experimental research on animals should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee and must comply with
institutional, national, or international guidelines. OAE encourages authors to comply with the AALAS Guidelines,
the ARRIVE Guidelines, and/or the ICLAS Guidelines, and obtain prior approval from the relevant ethics committee.
Manuscripts must include a statement indicating that the study has been approved by the relevant ethical committee and
the whole research process complies with ethical guidelines. If a study is granted an exemption from requiring ethics
approval, the name of the ethics committee granting the exemption and the reason(s) for the exemption should be detailed.
Editors will take account of animal welfare issues and reserve the right to reject a manuscript, especially if the research
involves protocols that are inconsistent with commonly accepted norms of animal research.
3.3 Research Involving Cell Lines
Authors must describe what cell lines are used and their origin so that the research can be reproduced. For established cell
lines, the provenance should be stated and references must also be given to either a published paper or to a commercial
source. For de novo cell lines derived from human tissue, appropriate approval from an institutional review board or
equivalent ethical committee, and consent from the donor or next of kin, should be obtained. Such statements should be
listed on the Declaration section of Ethical Approval and Consent to Participate in the manuscript.
Further information is available from the International Cell Line Authentication Committee (ICLAC). OAE recommends
that authors check the NCBI database for misidentification and contamination of human cell lines.
3.4 Publication Ethics Statement
The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to
guarantee to add high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication.
Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like,
do arise. The editors of Mini-invasive Surgery take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed
in such cases with zero tolerance policy.
Authors wishing to publish their papers in Mini-invasive Surgery must abide to the following:
● The author(s) must disclose any possibility of a conflict of interest in the paper prior to submission.
● The authors should declare that there is no academic misconduct in their manuscript in the cover letter.
● Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their
findings.
● Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the manuscript so that other
researchers can replicate the work.
● Authors should provide raw data if referees and the editors of the journal request.
● Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
● Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already
published in another language will not be accepted).
● The manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published
figures or images, please get the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.
● Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.
● Plagiarism is not acceptable in OAE journals.
Plagiarism involves the inclusion of large sections of unaltered or minimally altered text from an existing source without
appropriate and unambiguous attribution, and/or an attempt to misattribute original authorship regarding ideas or results,
and copying text, images, or data from another source, even from your own publications, without giving credit to the
source.
As to reusing the text that is copied from another source, it must be between quotation marks and the source must be
cited. If a study’s design or the manuscript’s structure or language has been inspired by previous studies, these studies
must be cited explicitly.
If plagiarism is detected during the peer-review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after
publication, we may publish a Correction or retract the paper.
Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results so that
the findings are not accurately represented in the research record.
Image files must not be manipulated or adjusted in any way that could lead to misinterpretation of the information
provided by the original image.
Irregular manipulation includes: introduction, enhancement, moving, or removing features from the original image;
grouping of images that should be presented separately, or modifying the contrast, brightness, or color balance to obscure,
eliminate, or enhance some information.
If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed during the peer-review process, we may reject the manuscript.
If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed after publication, we may publish a Correction or retract the
paper.
OAE reserves the right to contact the authors’ institution(s) to investigate possible publication misconduct if the editors

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