1. Research articles involving hazardous materials, human participants, or laboratory animals must receive prior review and approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee or Animal Research Ethics Committee, as applicable. Authors are required to provide an ethics approval certificate as evidence of such approval.

2. For articles that include personal information or images of participants, authors must provide evidence that informed consent was explicitly obtained from the research participants.

3. The Journal reserves the right to request additional supporting documents related to research ethics at any stage of the review or publication process.