Author Guidelines

FAST-DART adheres to established principles of research ethics and integrity.

Human Subjects and IRB Approval

Studies involving human participants must include a statement confirming approval by an appropriate Institutional Review Board or Ethics Committee. The approval number and institution should be specified.

Informed Consent

Authors must confirm that informed consent was obtained from all participants or their legal guardians, where applicable.

Animal Welfare and IACUC Compliance

All animal experiments must comply with institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals. Manuscripts must include a statement confirming approval by an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee or equivalent body.

Clinical Trial Registration

Clinical trials must be registered in a publicly accessible registry prior to participant enrollment. The registry name and registration number must be included in the manuscript.

All authors must disclose any financial or non-financial relationships that could be perceived to influence the work.

Disclosure Requirements

Potential conflicts include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications, research funding, or advisory roles. A conflict of interest statement must be included in the manuscript, even if no competing interests exist.

Funding Disclosure

All sources of financial support must be clearly identified. The role of the funding agency in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and manuscript preparation must be stated.

Editors and reviewers with relevant conflicts will recuse themselves from the review process.

FAST-DART supports transparency and reproducibility through responsible data sharing.

Data Sharing Expectations

Authors are expected to make primary datasets, analytical code, and supporting materials available to the research community whenever ethically and legally permissible.

Repository Recommendations

Data should be deposited in appropriate public repositories. Examples include institutional repositories, domain-specific archives, or general repositories such as Dryad, Figshare, or Zenodo. Genomic and transcriptomic data should be deposited in recognized databases such as GEO or SRA.

Data Availability Statement

Each manuscript must include a Data Availability Statement describing where and how data can be accessed, including accession numbers where applicable. If restrictions apply, authors must clearly explain the reason.

ORCID Policy

FAST-DART encourages authors to provide an ORCID identifier to enhance discoverability and accurate attribution of scholarly work. ORCID registration is free and can be obtained at https://orcid.org.

ORCID identifiers are not required for submission but are strongly recommended, particularly for corresponding authors. Authors may include their ORCID iD in the manuscript at the time of submission.