How to write and publish a scientific paper - Barbara Gastel, Robert A. Day 2022

Ethical treatment of humans and animals
Ethics in scientific publishing
Some preliminaries

If your research involves human subjects or animals, the journal to which you submit your paper will almost certainly require documentation that they were treated ethically. Before beginning your study, obtain all needed permissions with regard to human or animal research. (In the United States, doing so entails having your research protocol reviewed by a designated committee, generally at your institution.) Then, in your paper, provide the needed statements in this regard. For guidance, see the instructions to authors for the journal to which you are submitting your paper, and use papers similar to yours that have appeared in the journal as models. You may also find it useful to consult relevant sections of style manuals in the sciences. If in doubt, check with the publication office of the journal.