All submissions describing research experiments with human participants must follow the appropriate ethical guidelines required by the authors’ institution(s), and authors are required to secure and report their approval by the relevant ethics committee prior to collecting data. An approval by any ethical review board, if required by your institution, needs to be indicated via the submission system. Authors will be required to submit the name of the ethical review board, approved protocol title and number, and the date that ethical approval was obtained prior to running human participants. Authors must be able to provide proof of ethical approval upon request.
If the authors’ institution does not have a formal ethics review board, authors must explicitly state this and provide a detailed ethics statement describing how the study adhered to internationally accepted ethical standards (e.g., informed consent procedures, risk mitigation, and data protection practices). Additional documentation may be requested at the discretion of the program chairs.
Incorrect reporting of ethical approval will result in desk rejection.