Prerequisites for Publication
Authorship: The Editors of Journal of Echocardiography adhere to recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal
Editors [http://www.icmje.org] regarding criteria for authorship.
Accordingly, each person listed as an author or coauthor for a submitted report must meet all three criteria. An author or coauthor shallhave:
1. Conceived, planned, and performed the work leading to the report, or interpreted the evidence presented, or both;
2. Written the report or reviewed successive versions and participated in their revision;
3. Approved the final version.
Meeting these criteria should provide each author with sufficient knowledge of and participation in the work to allow him or her to accept
public responsibility for the report.
Certification: This Certification Form should be signed and submitted with the manuscript. The senior or corresponding author isrequested to certify that all listed authors qualify for authorship according to the above three criteria. The author(s) should also certify
that: no part of the work described has been published before; that the work is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that ifand when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the author(s) agree to automatic transfer of the copyright to the society and thatthe manuscript, or its parts, will not be published elsewhere subsequently in any language without the consent of the copyright holders.
Animal and human research: Research involving humans must be carried out in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible
committee (institutional or regional) or with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and all subsequent revisions. Studies involving animal
experimentation must include a statement of compliance with the guidelines as recommended by the Science Council of Japan or theNational Research Council’s criteria (NIH No. 86-23). Animal and human research statements should be present on every manuscript
before the References section.
Conflict of interest (COI): When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for disclosing all financial and personal relationshipsthat might bias their work. To prevent ambiguity, authors must state explicitly whether potential conflicts do or do not exist. Each author
must complete and submit a COI disclosure form, and the corresponding author should submit all the COI disclosure forms whensubmitting a manuscript. Each author must indicate whether or not they have a financial relationship with any organization thatsponsored the research, or is associated with any product or procedure that is mentioned in the article. For each source of funds, both theresearch funder and the grant number should be given. The form must be submitted to the journal’s editorial office by uploading it as aPDF file. Conflict of interest statements should be present on every manuscript before the References section.

Certification Form – to be submitted with manuscript to Journal of Echocardiography
Manuscript title:
I/We hereby certify that the work submitted is in full accordance with the statement of "Prerequisites for Publication" for Journal of
Echocardiography
Author’s name (please print)

Author’s signature

Datehttp://www.springer.com/journal/12574