CJIC requires that works involving in human beings should follow the Recommendations guiding physicians in biomedical research involving human subjects of the Declaration of Helsinki. The manuscript should contain a statement that the work has been approved by the ethical committees of institution(s) where the study was performed, and whether informed consents were obtained from the involved subjects. Clinical trial studies (including randomized controlled studies, cohort studies, case-control studies, case reports, studies conducted on or from human specimens, questionnaire surveys in psychology, social medicine, etc.) should generally be registered atInternational Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)（https://www.who.int/clinical-trials-registry-platform）or Chinese Clinical Trial Registry（https://www.chictr.org.cn/index.html）. Preventive measures must be taken to protect the privacy of research subjects and avoid the use of identifiable text, data, or images that can be traced back to patient information. The main texts, figures and tables should not contain any information that can identify the patient in terms of name, ID number, examination serial number, etc.Appropriately cover of sensitive parts is required.In special cases, written informed consent from the patient is required.

Informed Consent

When publishing identifiable images from human research participants, authors must include a statement attesting that they have obtained informed consent for publication of the images. If the participant is deceased, consent must be sought from the next of kin of the participant. All reasonable measures must be taken to protect patient anonymity. Black bars over the eyes are not acceptable means of anonymization. In certain cases, the journal may insist upon obtaining evidence of informed consent from authors. Images without appropriate consent will be removed from publication.