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Letter of Transmittal
This letter must be supplied during submission. The signatures of the corresponding author is required. The
letter must have following:
 Manuscript Title: The Author(s) name(s) (identify the corresponding author, with complete address,
telephone, FAX, and e-mail information).(50 word maximum)
 Type of Manuscript: Regular Article, Short Communication, Case Report, Review and Letter to the
Editor.
 Brief Statement of Significance: A statement that describes the significance of the paper.

 Statement of Direct Participation: statement that declares that all of the authors have directly par-
ticipated in the planning, execution, or analysis of the study and resulting paper, and have read and ap-
proved the version submitted.
 Information: Must include information on prior or duplicate publication or submission elsewhere of
any part of the work/study; and a statement of financial or other relationships that might lead to a conflict of
interest.
Copies of any permission(s) to reproduce published material, and to use illustrations or report information
about identifiable people must accompany the manuscript.
 Optional- The contact information of any suggested reviewers (names, addresses, and e-mail).
Manuscripts submitted without a letter of transmittal will not be processed for peer review.

Licence to Publish
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form” upon an editorial decision of Accept.
Upon acceptance of a paper, authors are required to assign the exclusive licence to publish their paper to the
Compendium of Oral Science. Assignment of copyright is a condition of publication, and papers will not be
passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been assigned. A completed Copyright Transfer
Agreement must be sent to the address specified on the agreement, before any manuscript can be published.
Authors may send the completed original Copyright Transfer Agreement by fax (optional) but must be followed
by mail upon receiving notice of manuscript acceptance. Do not send the Copyright Transfer Agreement at sub-
mission.
Copyright

Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before (except in the form
of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, or thesis) that it is not under consideration for publication else-
where; that if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree to automatic transfer of
the copyright to the publisher.
Authorship
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. The entitlement to authorship should be based
on all of the following criteria: (1) substantial contributions to conceptions and design, execution or analysis and
interpretation of data; (2) drafting the article or revising it for important intellectual content; (3) final approval of
the version to be published. Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research
group, alone, does not justify authorship. All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be
listed in the Acknowledgements. The order of authorship should be a joint decision of the co-authors. Each au-
thor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for part of the content or the
whole. Corresponding author must agree that above has been confirmed by all authors when submitting a man-
uscript.
Originality
By submitting your manuscript to the journal it is understood that this it is an original manuscript and is un-
published work and is not under consideration elsewhere.

Conflict of Interest
The Compendium of Oral Science’s policy requires that each author reveal any financial interests or connec-
tions, direct or indirect, or other situations that might raise the question of bias in the work reported or the con-
clusions, implications, or opinions stated including pertinent commercial or other sources of funding for the indi-
vidual author(s) or for the associated department(s) or organization(s), personal relationships, or direct academ-
ic competition.

As an integral part of the submission process, Corresponding authors are required to confirm whether they or
their co-authors have any conflicts of interest to declare, and to provide details of these.

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