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CorayNova's Forms, Templates & Checklists resources are designed for authors, reviewers, editors, readers, institutions, and other parties who need clear, practical tools for preparing submissions, declaring required information, conducting peer review, supporting editorial work, and reporting concerns responsibly.

This section brings together publisher-level author forms, submission checklists, declaration examples, reviewer and editor template structures, special issue and editorial board tools, and complaint, appeal, correction, copyright, permissions, privacy, and data request form frameworks.

These resources support complete submissions, transparent declarations, responsible peer review, fair editorial communication, research integrity, publication ethics, copyright and permissions awareness, accurate post-publication records, and clear contact routes through the CorayNova Journals Platform and CorayNova's official email channels.

CorayNova recommends and requires journals to use these resources as the publisher-level standard reference when developing journal-level forms, templates, and checklists. Individual journals may add discipline-specific, article-type-specific, funder-specific, ethical, technical, or workflow requirements on the relevant journal page of the CorayNova Journals Platform.

· What This Section Covers

In this section, users can find the following resources:

I. Author Forms and Checklists

Publisher-level author tools for preparing submissions and declarations, including Before Submission Checklist, Competing Interests Declaration, Funding Statement, Data Availability Statement examples, Ethics Approval Statement examples, AI Use Disclosure, Third-party Permissions Checklist, and Cover Letter Guidance where requested by the journal.

II. Reviewer and Editor Templates

Publisher-level structures for reviewer and editor work, including Reviewer Report Guidance, Reviewer Conflict Declaration, Reviewer Confidentiality and AI Reminder, Decision Letter Elements, Reviewer Invitation Elements, Special Issue Proposal Form, and Editorial Board Onboarding Checklist.

III. Complaint, Appeal and Concern Forms

Publisher-level form frameworks for Complaint/Appeal Form, Ethics Concern Form, Correction Request Form, Copyright/Permissions Concern Form, and Privacy/Data Request Form, including contact routes, required information, anonymity limits, appeal boundaries, and responsible evidence submission.

· How to Use These Resources

Authors should use the author forms and checklists before starting or finalizing a submission, and should check the relevant journal page on the CorayNova Journals Platform for journal-specific scope, article type, formatting, APC, license, ethics, data, file, and workflow requirements.

Reviewers should use the reviewer templates to assess expertise, availability, conflicts of interest, confidentiality obligations, AI-use limits, report structure, review criteria, and recommendation wording before accepting and completing a review task.

Editors and editorial teams should use the editor template structures to support consistent editorial communication, reviewer invitation quality, decision letter clarity, special issue safeguards, editorial board onboarding, platform records, and escalation routes.

Readers, authors, institutions, and other parties should use the complaint, appeal, and concern forms to report issues privately, factually, respectfully, and with enough information for CorayNova to identify the relevant journal, article, DOI or URL, concern type, evidence, and requested action.

· Where to Ask for Help

Questions about manuscript preparation, declarations, journal scope, peer review, editorial templates, publication ethics, complaints, appeals, correction requests, copyright, permissions, or article-level concerns should be directed to editorial@coraynova.com.

Technical problems involving account access, platform submission, file upload, review tasks, display errors, access permissions, downloads, or platform functionality should be directed to support@coraynova.com.

General enquiries and privacy or data requests may be directed to info@coraynova.com. Serious institutional-level matters may be directed to executive@coraynova.com. Users may also submit general website enquiries through the Feedback page.