For studies that require ethics committee approval, documentation of the approval obtained must be included in the Materials and Methods section of the article.

1) Additional ethics committee approval must be obtained separately for clinical and experimental human and animal studies that require ethics committee approval, and this approval must be stated and documented in the manuscript.
2) Articles must comply with Research and Publication Ethics.
3) The recommendations of ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) and the International Standards for Editors and Authors of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) are taken into consideration in scientific manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of Dental Sciences.
4) In studies requiring ethics committee authorisation, information about the authorisation (name of the committee, date and number) should be included in the method section and also on the first/last page of the article. In case presentations, information on the signature of the informed consent/assent form must be included in the article.
5) Copyright regulations must be respected for the intellectual and artistic works used.