Ethics are statements on any animal or human experimentation carried out as part of the work being reported.
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Author
As an author, I want to be able to add ethics statements so that I can provide ethics information relating to a manuscript.
As an author, I want to be able to set the type of ethics statement so that I can indicate whether it refers to human or animal subjects.
As an author, I want to be able to edit ethics statement paragraphs for human or animal subjects so that I can provide or correct institutional approval information.
As an author, I want to be able to remove ethics statements so that I can omit this information when it is not needed.
But what if . . . ?
Consideration
There are two kinds of paragraphs that can be included in ethics:
Animal subjects: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All of the animals were handled according to approved institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) protocols of the Salk Institute. All procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at the Salk Institute (Protocol #14-00014) and conformed to NIH guidelines.
Human subjects: The protocols were approved by the Ohio State University Institutional Review Board and all subjects participated with informed consent. protocol (under number 2012H0032)
XML requirements
Currently under JATS4R discussion. Recommendations to be released shortly. The below has taken the most recent findings of the JATS4R sub-group into account.
Ethics should be captured in a sec[@sec-type="ethics-statement"], which in turn is captured as the in the additional information section.
The individual <p> elements for each type of ethics should contain the attribute @content-type which should always begin with ethics-, eLife has elected to use ethics-approval-human and ethics-approval-animal. These should be in order, with humans first then animals (if both are necessary).
<sec sec-type="additional-information">
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<sec sec-type="ethics-statement">
<title>Ethics</title>
<p content-type="ethics-approval-human">Human subjects: Fresh tissue samples were obtained upon informed consent from patients undergoing surgery at the Gynecology Division of the European Institute of Oncology (Milan). Sample collection was performed under the protocol number R789-IEO approved by the Ethics Committee of the European Institute of Oncology.</p>
<p content-type="ethics-approval-animal">Animal experimentation: All animal studies were performed following a protocol approved by the fully authorized animal facility of European Institute of Oncology and by the Italian Ministry of Health (as required by the Italian Law) (IACUCs number 1256/2015) and in accordance to EU directive 2010/63. Mouse tissues were obtained from Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden) and IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute (Milan, Italy), in accordance with Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees.</p>
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The p/@content-type values should be set in the configuration and can be added, removed changed etc.
Description
Ethics are statements on any animal or human experimentation carried out as part of the work being reported.
User stories
Author
But what if . . . ?
Consideration
XML requirements
Currently under JATS4R discussion. Recommendations to be released shortly. The below has taken the most recent findings of the JATS4R sub-group into account.
Ethics should be captured in a
sec[@sec-type="ethics-statement"], which in turn is captured as the in the additional information section. The individual<p>elements for each type of ethics should contain the attribute@content-typewhich should always begin withethics-, eLife has elected to useethics-approval-humanandethics-approval-animal. These should be in order, with humans first then animals (if both are necessary).The
p/@content-typevalues should be set in the configuration and can be added, removed changed etc.Mock ups
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