banner

The Spine Journal Disclosure Forms for Authors

** Disclosure forms are required for all submissions to The Spine Journal. Each author must provide a form in order for your submission to be considered complete.
Submissions with missing forms will be sent back to the corresponding author. **

In accordance with NASS' universal disclosure policy, The Spine Journal has requested that all authors complete the following process to ensure that every manuscript submitted to The Spine Journal includes the necessary disclosure forms. Below is a list of steps that will assist you in completing the appropriate form, which you will provide to your corresponding author, who will in turn upload directly to your submission at EES. You will be asked to complete a number of fields through a separate website dedicated to NASS disclosure.

** NOTE TO CORRESPONDING AUTHORS: You are responsible for ensuring that each author has received the link to this page and that he or she has provided you with a copy of the resulting form. You must copy and paste the link for this page (or copy URL from your browser, above) into an email message to all authors listed for the manuscript you are submitting for publication.

ALL AUTHORS:

Click here to provide your disclosure information after reading instructions below.

  1. If you have already provided NASS with your current disclosure information, please log into your account and email yourself a copy of your previously submitted disclosure information. If you have not registered with NASS, click "Create an account" on the log-in page.
  2. Complete all the appropriate fields as directed.
  3. When you have entered all the appropriate disclosure information, the system will ask you if you would like to email yourself a PDF copy for your records. Please do so. If you forget to do this, you can still log back into your account later to request a PDF.
  4. Exit the system. When you have received the PDF in your email account, please forward the e-mail, with the attachment, along to the corresponding author.
  5. CORRESPONDING AUTHORS: You must upload each author's PDF into the "Attach Files" section of EES before submitting your manuscript. Attach each PDF as its own individual "Disclosure-conflict of interest" file.