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SUBMISSION COVER LETTER

Your submission must be in the Microsoft Word format and accompanied by a cover letter in the format given below. Submission processing will begin only on receipt of all the necessary information in a cover letter duly signed by all authors. Authors are advised to carefully read the IJME submission guidelines, before submission.

To,
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics,
Mumbai, India

Date:

Title of Submission: _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Article Type of Submission (choose from IJME submission guidelines): _ _ _ _ _

Declaration of originality of Submission: I/We hereby declare that the submission is my/our original writing and has not been published in, or submitted to any other journal(s) for consideration.

Information/Statements on Submission:

a)  Pre-print / Blog Publication: Is any version of the submission published on a pre-print/blog? YES / NO

      If YES, provide a link to it and information on revision/s carried out: ___ ____ ____

b)  Funding Support: Did you receive any funding support for the research and/or preparation of the submission? YES / NO

      If YES, provide information on the quantum and source of funding: __ ___ ____

c)  Acknowledgment (of Non-Author contributors): I/We have obtained written permission of the individuals named/acknowledged in the submission. Non-author contributors do not       endorse nor are responsible for the content of the submission.

Information/Statements ONLY for submissions based on Empirical Research:

a) Research Ethics observed: My/Our submission is based on information/data collected from human participants and/or animals, while strictly following the relevant ethics     standards. The methodology section describes the ethics standards (including the informed consent obtained) and principles observed in practice. At no stage was there any      data fabrication or falsification.

b)  Ethics Review and Approval letter: My/Our research was reviewed and approved by a relevant Research Ethics Committee (REC). An approval letter of the REC is enclosed (Note: If       the REC waived review and/or any ethics standard or approved verbal consent, ensure that this is stated in the approval letter).

c)  Research findings used in other publication(s): Have you reported research findings also reported in other submitted paper(s) published/awaiting publication? YES / NO

      If YES, (i) provide a copy of such publication(s); and (ii) a statement that the findings used in the IJME submission have not been used in it/them: ___ ____ ____

d)  Data sharing: Are you willing to share the anonymised raw data of research reported in the submission with interested readers? YES / NO

      If YES, please explain when, and your preferred procedure to apply for a copy of the data: ____

Author information:

• In the table below, please provide full information on the author/s. If there are multiple authors, list them in the sequence to appear on the publication, beginning with the first    author.

• Disclosure of Conflict of Interest (CoI) is mandatory. Each author must make an individual disclosure. Wilful non-disclosure of relevant CoI is a misconduct and could result in    retraction of a published article.

Name of the Corresponding Author: __ __ __ __

Name	Author: 1
a.	Affiliation (Max two): Name, address & website of  institution(s)
b.	Email Id (Institutional Id, followed by any other Id)
c.	ORCID iD
d.	Describe contribution made in the submission
e.	Disclosure of financial & non-financial Conflict of Interest  (COI) (details available in ICMJE. If preferred, submit  separately ICMJE CoI disclosure form).
Name	Author: 2
a.	Affiliation (Max. two): Name, address & website of  institution(s)
b.	Email Id (Institutional Id, followed by any other Id)
c.	ORCID iD
d.	Describe contribution made by author to the submission
e.	Disclosure of financial & non-financial Conflict of Interest  (COI) (details available in ICMJE. If preferred, submit  separately ICMJE CoI disclosure form).

(Note: Add rows for more authors)

Authors’ Undertaking:

I/We confirm that the information provided above is correct. I/We confirm that I/we have contributed sufficiently as per the ICMJE guidelines to be eligible for authorship in the submission made to IJME, and state that I/each of us am/is equally responsible and accountable for the entire content of the submission. We also state that the submission is our original work and is free of plagiarism of any kind.

Authors Signatures:
Author 1:

Author 2:
(Add number as per requirement)