Author Declaration and Copyright Form

Copy the text below into a document, complete every field, sign it, and send it with your manuscript as the third of the three files described in the submission guidelines. The corresponding author signs on behalf of all authors and confirms that each has seen and approved it.

Covering letter and declaration

To: The Editor in Chief, International Research Insights: Multidisciplinary e-Journal

Manuscript title:

Research section:

Article type: Research article, review article, case comment, short communication or book review

Authors, in the agreed order, with qualification, designation and institution:

Corresponding author, with email and telephone:

ORCID identifiers, where held:

Referencing style used: APA 7th, Bluebook 20th, Indian Law Institute style or MLA 9th

Word count, excluding references:

1. Originality and prior publication

I confirm that this manuscript is our original work, that it has not been published in whole or in part elsewhere, and that it is not under consideration by any other journal. Any earlier version circulated as a preprint, conference paper or working paper is disclosed here with its location:

2. Authorship

I confirm that every person listed as an author contributed substantially to the conception, design, execution, analysis or interpretation of the work, approved the final version, and agrees to be accountable for it. No person meeting these conditions has been omitted, and no person who does not meet them has been included. The order of authors is agreed by all. Contributions are as follows:

3. Sources and permissions

I confirm that all sources are cited, that all quoted material is marked and attributed, that every reference in the list has been consulted by an author, and that written permission has been obtained for any third party material reproduced in the manuscript.

4. Ethics approval and consent

Where the research involved human participants, patients, patient records, minors, identifiable communities or animals, approval was granted by the following body, with reference number and date:

Informed consent was obtained from all participants, and written consent to publish was obtained from any individual who could be identified. Where no ethics approval was required, state why:

5. Data

I confirm that the underlying data, transcripts, case records, field notes or source materials will be retained for at least five years and produced to the editors on reasonable request. Where data cannot be shared, the reason is:

6. Funding

All funding for this research is disclosed here, with the name of the funder and the grant number, or the statement that the research received no external funding:

7. Conflicts of interest

All financial and non financial interests that could be perceived to influence this work are disclosed here, or the statement that there are none:

8. Use of artificial intelligence tools

Any use of text generation or language editing tools is disclosed here, naming the tool and what it was used for, or the statement that none was used. I confirm that no data, results, analysis, images or references in this manuscript were generated by such a tool:

9. Licence to publish

I confirm that the authors retain copyright in this work, and grant International Research Insights a non exclusive right to publish, distribute and permanently archive the article, and to deposit it with indexing and preservation services. I agree that on publication the article will be made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, which allows others to share and adapt the work, including commercially, with attribution to the authors and the journal.

10. Undertaking

I confirm that the statements above are true, that all authors have read and approved this declaration, and that we will inform the editors promptly if we discover a significant error in the work after publication.

Name of corresponding author:

Signature:

Date:

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Notes

A typed name in an emailed document is accepted as a signature. A scanned handwritten signature is also accepted. The declaration is retained in the editorial file for the life of the journal and is not published, although the funding and conflict of interest statements are published with the article.