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Submission Guidelines

Any changes made to the list of conflicts after the paper is accepted must be submitted in writing, signed by the
appropriate authors (that is, the corresponding author and the author for whom the conflict exists), to the Com-
pendium of Oral Science Editorial Office. Publication of manuscripts will be withheld until all such written ap-
provals are received. Compendium of Oral Science accepts no responsibility for such changes.

Experimental Ethics:
 Animal experiments: When reporting animal experiments authors should indicate whether the insti-
tution’s, national research council’s, or any other law on the care and use of laboratory animals was fol-
lowed.
 Human subjects: When reporting on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the proce-
dures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration (1964, amended
most recently in 2008) of the World Medical Association. Manuscripts should include a statement that the
patient’s written consent was obtained and any information, including illustrations, should be as anony-
mized as far as possible. Authors should indicate that the design of the work has been approved by local
ethical committees or that it conforms to standards currently applied in the country of origin. The name of
the authorizing body should be stated in the paper.

Clinical Trials
Authors should indicate that the design of clinical trial study has been approved by local ethical committees /
appropriate authority or that it conforms to standards currently applied in the country of origin. The name of the
authorizing body should be stated in the paper. The clinical trial registration number and name of the trial regis-
ter will then be published with the paper.

Funding
All sources of funding should be declared in the Acknowledgements. If a private/commercial sponsor supported
the research, authors are advised to describe the role of the study sponsor (s), if any, in study design; in the
collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the pa-
per for publication. If the funding source had no such involvement, this should be stated.
Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'.
This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.
The following rules should be followed:
 The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’

 The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’ ( Grant
numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’

 Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
 Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)

 Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added
after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.

An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S.,
BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].’

Evaluation of manuscripts
Submitted manuscripts are subject to peer review and are expected to meet standards of academic excellence.
Peer-reviewers identities will remain anonymous to the authors. The Editor-in-Chief's decision regarding publi-
cation is based on the recommendation of the reports of reviewers, which will, at the Editors' discretion, be
transmitted to the authors.
Authors may suggest the names and addresses of a few potential reviewers. The Editors and Associate Editors
will be guided but not necessarily bound by these suggestions.
Form and Style of Manuscript
Manuscripts must be written in English. Manuscript documents should be formatted as follows:
 They should be typed on A4 form (21×29.7 cm or 21.6×28 cm)
 Double spaced
 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins
 Justify
 Page numbers at the bottom of each page; centered or right-justified
 11-point font; restrict fonts to Arial throughout the manuscript (Use of other fonts is not recom-

mended and could result in problems with converting your manuscript for review.)
 Avoid boldface, underlining, or italics in the manuscript

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