Journal of Prevention and Treatment for Stomatological Diseases (JPTSD) adheres to the principle of "academic first, quality first." It strictly implements the system of three reviews and three cycles of proofreading; it published at no charge; and it pays remuneration to author. JPTSD pays attention to academic morality, carries forward the spirit of innovation, maintains academic integrity, resolutely resists academic misconduct and adheres to the professional ethics of publishing. It implements the press and publication industry standard of the People's Republic of China (CY/T174-2019): Academic Publishing specification—Definition of academic misconduct for journals and endorses the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.; the WMA Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects; and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) Policies for Medical Journal Editors. Editors, peer reviewers and authors shall fulfill the following ethical codes.

1.Ethics of editors

(1)Responsibilities and obligations

Editors should check the repetition rate of new manuscripts, which should be less than 15% and the repetition rate between manuscripts any other individual article must be less than 10% ; editors must evaluate and select manuscripts objectively and fairly and according to scientific, academic, innovative, readability and practical standards. The editors must provide timely feedback to authors regarding the opinions of peer reviewers and modified opinions in line with the editing specifications. No editorial opinions based on nonacademic standards beyond the scope and purpose of JPTSD shall be put forward. Editors should strictly follow the relevant regulations for manuscripts for which ethical review materials must be provided. Editors shall not distort the author's original intention to modify the content of the manuscript and shall not implement mutual citations of periodicals.

(2)Fair treatment

The editors shall mainly review the academic quality of the manuscripts and shall not treat manuscripts differently due to any other factors (including but not limited to the author's race, gender, religious beliefs, origin, department or nationality) except academic standards and norms.

(3)Confidentiality

Editors must keep the personal information of authors, peer reviewers and manuscript contents confidential. The disclosure of the personal information of the peer reviewers to the author or of the author's information to the peer reviewers is not allowed. Interfering with or affecting the independent review of peer reviewers is also not allowed.

(4)Conflict of interest

When the editor or editorial staff has a conflict of interest with the author or his/her unit due to other factors, such as competition or cooperation, the editor or editorial staff should avoid preliminary examination of the paper and should avoid selecting peer reviewers or participating in other editing procedures. Editors and editorial staff shall not publish unpublished papers or research results without authorization and shall not misappropriate the content of the manuscript. Editors and editorial staff shall not use the pages of periodicals, the confidential information supplied in editing procedures or the rights of the editors to serve outside interests.
Further guidance is available from the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest; and COPE and WAME.

2.Ethics of peer reviewers

(1)Responsibilities and obligations

Journal of Prevention and Treatment for Stomatological Diseases (JPTSD) adheres to the principle of "academic first, quality first." It strictly implements the system of three reviews and three cycles of proofreading; it published at no charge; and it pays remuneration to author. JPTSD pays attention to academic morality, carries forward the spirit of innovation, maintains academic integrity, resolutely resists academic misconduct and adheres to the professional ethics of publishing. It implements the press and publication industry standard of the People's Republic of China (CY/T174-2019): Academic Publishing specification—Definition of academic misconduct for journals and endorses the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.; the WMA Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects; and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) Policies for Medical Journal Editors. Editors, peer reviewers and authors shall fulfill the following ethical codes.

(2)Objectivity

Peer reviewers must review manuscripts objectively and impartially. The standard for judging manuscripts is academic quality, and personal criticism of authors is not allowed.

(3)Confidentiality

JPTSD adopts a double-blind review process. Any manuscripts received by peer reviewers must be regarded as confidential documents, and showing the manuscripts to others or discussing them is not allowed. The misappropriation of the contents of manuscripts is also not allowed. The misappropriation of the contents of manuscripts is also not allowed. Regardless of whether a submitted manuscript is eventually published, correspondence with JPTSD, referees' reports and other confidential material must not be published, disclosed or otherwise publicized without prior written consent.

(4)Conflict of interesty

Peer reviewers shall not serve improper personal or private interests through their personal status as reviewers. When there is a conflict of interest between the peer reviewer and the author or his/her unit due to competition, cooperation or other factors, for example, if the reviewer is based at the same institution as any of the coauthors or at the funding body of the paper, the peer reviewer should actively avoid reviewing the manuscript.
Further guidance is available from the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest; and COPE and WAME.

3.Ethics of authors

(1)Manuscript standards

Authors must ensure that all content is original, and manuscripts should be scientific, academic, innovative, readable and practical. The materials should be authentic, the arguments should be clear, the data should be reliable, the sentences should be concise and clear, and the writing should be standardized. Plagiarism of other people's research results and forging or tampering with pictures or data are not allowed. The references shall be listed based on recent articles published in official publications that the author has read personally.

(2)Research integritys

When submitting a manuscript, authors shall attach a letter of introduction from their unit to prove the authenticity of the manuscript and to establish that there are no confidentiality issues, that the signature is not disputed, that there is no infringement, and that there are no multiple submissions of one manuscript. If the author wants to submit the manuscript to another journal in the future, he/she should contact the editors of JPTSD to apply for withdrawal. A draft may not be submitted to more than one journal at the same time or published repeatedly. If the contribution is a nationally, ministerially or provincially funded project or key research project, the name and number of the funded project shall be indicated, and a scanned copy of the approval document (certificate) of the funded project must be attached.

(3)Medical ethics and informed consent

When the research objects of the manuscript are human, it is necessary to declare that the permission of the relevant ethics committee has been obtained and the research has been conducted in accordance with the ethical standards set out in the WMA Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects. Additionally, the standard document number of the ethics committee and the informed consent of the subjects or their relatives must be provided. For clinical trials, a registration number must be obtained from the primary registration organization of the WHO international clinical trial registration platform.
An animal studies report must state that it has been approved by the relevant ethics committee, and the standard document number of the ethics committee must be provided. A statement indicating that the protocol and procedures employed were ethically reviewed and approved, as well as the name of the body giving approval, must be included in the Methods section. Authors are encouraged to adhere to animal research reporting standards, for example, the ARRIVE guidelines Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) Guidelines; the U.S. Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and, as applicable, the Animal Welfare Act; the Regulations on the Administration of Laboratory Animals; or the Guiding Opinions on Treating Laboratory Animals Kindly issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China.
Identification information from the study, including patients’ names, initials, and portraits or hospital names, should not be disclosed except when there is written evidence that it is important for scientific purposes and the informed consent of the patient (parent or guardian) has been obtained. Patients should read the published manuscript before signing the informed consent certificate. Identification information should be omitted if it is not necessary.

(4)Conflict of interest and copyright transfer agreement

JPTSD encourages authors to adopt the ICMJE’s form of Disclosure of Interest.
Author must declare whether there is any conflict of interest is involved when submitting the manuscript. This statement must be uploaded as an attachment to the submission system when the paper is submitted. The term "conflict of interest" will be included at the end of the published paper with the following details:
(1)Did the author accept direct or indirect financial support of research work from any third party other than his/her employer?
(2)Is there any interest relationship with any commercial institution in the direct or any related field of the research content？
(3)Is there a non economic interest relationship (personal, professional, political, organizational, religious, etc.) with the research content？
The authors should be sorted by contribution, and the author order should be determined before submission. The author's contribution form must be filled in, and it must be stated that there is no conflict of interest for any author.
Further guidance is available from the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest; and COPE and WAME.
The author is responsible for his/her manuscript. In accordance with the copyright law of the People's Republic of China, JPTSD has the right to delete and modify the manuscript within the prescribed scope. Once a manuscript is accepted and published by JPTSD, according to the manuscript copyright transfer agreement signed by the authors and the Editing and Publishing Department of JPTSD, one payment shall be made for the author's article copyright use fee and the remuneration of JPTSD. The exclusive right of use belongs to the editorial department. JPTSD is included in many databases in China and abroad. If the author does not agree with the inclusion of his/her article in those databases, the author shall make a statement to that effect at the time of submission, and the editors will handle this request properly.

(4)Conflict of interest and copyright transfer agreement

JPTSD encourages authors to adopt the ICMJE’s form of Disclosure of Interest.
Author must declare whether there is any conflict of interest is involved when submitting the manuscript. This statement must be uploaded as an attachment to the submission system when the paper is submitted. The term "conflict of interest" will be included at the end of the published paper with the following details:
(1)Did the author accept direct or indirect financial support of research work from any third party other than his/her employer?
(2)Is there any interest relationship with any commercial institution in the direct or any related field of the research content？
(3)Is there a non economic interest relationship (personal, professional, political, organizational, religious, etc.) with the research content？
The authors should be sorted by contribution, and the author order should be determined before submission. The author's contribution form must be filled in, and it must be stated that there is no conflict of interest for any author.
Further guidance is available from the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest; and COPE and WAME.
The author is responsible for his/her manuscript. In accordance with the copyright law of the People's Republic of China, JPTSD has the right to delete and modify the manuscript within the prescribed scope. Once a manuscript is accepted and published by JPTSD, according to the manuscript copyright transfer agreement signed by the authors and the Editing and Publishing Department of JPTSD, one payment shall be made for the author's article copyright use fee and the remuneration of JPTSD. The exclusive right of use belongs to the editorial department. JPTSD is included in many databases in China and abroad. If the author does not agree with the inclusion of his/her article in those databases, the author shall make a statement to that effect at the time of submission, and the editors will handle this request properly.

(5)Postpublication responsibility

If the author finds obvious errors or inaccurate content in an article published in JPTSD, the author is obliged to inform the JPTSD editor immediately and assist the editorial department in withdrawing the manuscript or publishing a correction statement and corrigendum. If an editor learns from a third party of a material error in a published article, the author is obliged to cooperate with the editor in withdrawing the article or making a statement of correction.

4.Consequences of violating publishing ethics

JPTSD has zero tolerance for the violation of publishing ethics and morality. Editors or peer reviewers who violate publishing ethics and morality shall be dismissed; manuscripts submitted by authors who violate publishing ethics and morality shall be rejected or withdrawn; and those who violate the law shall be investigated to determine legal responsibility.

All figures (tables) should have complete, concise and accurate titles, and within a group of figures, annotations should be provided for each individual figure. The text, captions, and annotations in the figures (tables) must be in both Chinese and English. This publication adopts a three-line table format. Photos in the main text must be marked with arrows 4 mm and 1 mm wide to indicate typical lesions. Pathological photos must indicate the staining method and magnification or scale. Color should be used for bar charts. Repetition of text, figures and tables should be avoided, and charts must be self-explanatory. When submitting, please provide original images with a resolution of no less than 1200 dpi for line images, 300 dpi for halftone images, and 600 dpi for color and combination images. Single original image should be packaged and uploaded as an attachment. The width of a single-column composite diagram should not exceed 7 cm, the width of a general-column composite diagram should not exceed 16.2 cm, and the height of a composite diagram should not exceed 20 cm.

Only manuscripts that pass preliminary review by an editor, double-blind peer review by external experts, and final review by the editor-in-chief or the editorial board members can be accepted for publication.

Articles should be creative, scientific, readable and practical. They must contain authentic information, explicit arguments, a clear hierarchy, and reliable data. Statistical processing should be performed when necessary. The sentences should be concise and clear. Details of the submission criteria are provided in the online guidelines for authors.

Journal of Prevention and Treatment for Stomatological Diseases.is an open-access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles or use them for any other lawful purpose without prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access< and JPTSD is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

To shorten the publishing period of academic manuscripts and improve the dissemination efficiency and utilization value of scientific research achievements, JPTSD signed the Agreement on Cooperative Publication of CAJ-N Online First Academic Journals with China Academic Journals (CD Edition) Electronic Publishing House. Since September 2021, all manuscripts accepted by JPTSD. The online first published manuscript on CNKI is recognized as an officially published manuscript, and the author can download and print the manuscript and the online first published certificate from CNKI.

JPTSD charges no publishing fees. After publication of the author’s manuscript, the editorial and publication department will pay the authors a onetime fee, including the cost of the copyright transfer.

Authors are required to make materials, data and associated protocols promptly available to readers without undue qualifications. Any restrictions on the availability of materials or information must be disclosed to the editors at the time of submission. Any restrictions must also be disclosed in the submitted manuscript.

After publication, readers who encounter refusal by the authors to comply with these policies should contact the editor-in-chief of JPTSD. In cases where editors are unable to resolve a complaint, JPTSD may refer the matter to the authors' funding institution and/or publish a formal statement of correction, attached online to the publication, stating that readers have been unable to obtain necessary materials to replicate the findings.

We require all authors to sign a license agreement granting the editorial and publication department rights to use and authorize the use of their contribution before manuscript acceptance.

Once the manuscript is accepted by JPTSD, a copyright transfer agreement signed by all authors should be submitted immediately. All authors agree to transfer the copyrights and related property rights to the editorial and publication department of JPTSD. Among others, the editorial department of JPTSD has the following use rights to the full text of the article: compilation rights, distribution rights, reproduction rights, translation rights, and web publishing and information dissemination rights. The editorial and publication department has the right to transfer the above rights to third parties, allowing domestic and foreign document retrieval systems and networks and database systems to search and collect related data and to allow rights to this article or publish it in various media. After publication of the manuscript, the editorial and publication department will pay the authors a one-time fee, including the cost of the copyright transfer.

Submitted and accepted manuscripts must remain privileged documents and must not be released to any other public media or journals before publication.

In accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics guidance, JPTSD allows authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if there is a valid reason to do so. All authors must agree to any proposed change, including adding or removing any author or correcting any author’s name or the name of an author's institution.

To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to JPTSD Article Author List Form. All authors, including those who have been added or deleted or who have changed their names or affiliations, should personally sign, agree to, and confirm the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form. Then, the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form signed by all authors should be sent to the JPTSD editorial office at Editorial and Publisher Department, Stomatological Hospital, Southern Medical University, S366 Jiangnan Boulevard, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510280, P.R. China. In addition, scanned copies must be emailed to the JPTSD editorial office at kqjbfz@smu.edu.cn. Authorship or author name changes will not be considered without a fully completed change form. If an article has already been published, a change to the online Version of Record will require an enduring erratum/correction statement. All authors must sign the copyright and license to publish again, and the original agreement shall be terminated simultaneously.　 Regarding any authorship dispute, authors should consult their institution’s research ethics department for guidance.