For the development of all primary medical manuscripts, good publication practices will be followed, which include:
The investigators will either review the manuscript outline (by editing/revising the outline, which will dictate the direction of the manuscript) or have a discussion with us prior to writing the first-draft of the manuscript
The lead author will submit the manuscript to the journal
The project will not start until:
A contract has been signed by both parties
All materials needed (e.g. CRS, a color Power Point template for a poster) have been provided by the client. Failure to send these materials by the agreed upon start date may result in a change in the timeline
The project will be written according to criteria dictated by objectives or an outline that has been agreed upon by both parties
Later requests (i.e. after the first-draft has been completed) for entirely new objectives or topics not discussed in the outline approved by both parties will be outside the scope of the project and additional costs may be incurred
Payment terms:
Net-30 applies to all invoices
When payment is received in full, then the license to use the materials for their own purposes transfers to the company or investigators