Any research that collect data from animals or human beings samples or involves working with copy-righted materials (like any form of review manuscripts) MUST be approved by a valid Ethics committee and provide the “ethics code” and the approving agency address in the “Title Page” during submitting the manuscript. The code will be check by the JRRS office. If the code was not retrieved, the manuscript will be fast-rejected. The submission fee will be un-refundable in these cases. 

As JRRS also review engineering and non-medical manuscripts, these manuscripts do not need ethics code unless they tested their proposed apparatus or procedure on a human being or animal.

For any type of the studies conducted inside Iran, the code MUST be retrievable in National Ethics Platform. Ethics codes from agencies outside Iran are not acceptable for the studies conducted inside Iran except they also get the approval from National Ethics Platform.

All types of clinical trials MUST be registered in a valid clinical trial registry and provide the resgitration code and the registring agency address in the "Title Page" during submitting the  manuscript. The code will be check by the JRRS office. If the code was not reteirved, the manuscript will be fast-rejected.  The submission fee will be unrefundable in these cases. 

Valid registration aganecies are any national agency approved by WHO for registring  . clinical trials. Details are accessible in International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). In Iran, IRCT is the formal registry for clinical trials, however the registration in any other registry worldwide is acceptable.

Note: Providing ethics codes does not eliminate the essence of providing “clinical trial registration code”. The only exception is when the authors registered their trial in a valid registry and the registry announced their study our of clinical trial scope. In these cases, these documents MUST be provided when submitting the manuscript.