Also known as a conflict of interest statement, a disclosure statement is the authors’ opportunity to confirm that their article does not have a financial, commercial, legal, or professional relationship with other organizations or people working with them (including their employer).
Many journals require authors to submit a disclosure statement with their article, and this disclosure statement is often published within the article text.
Disclosure statements should be tagged as a section within the <back> element. The section element should be assigned an attribute @sec-type="COI-statement”. This special section usually has a title like “Disclosure Statement”.
For example:
<sec id="S006" sec-type="COI-statement">
<title>Disclosure statement</title>
<p>No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.</p>
</sec>