The URL of official journal web site is http://www.gutnliver.org/main.html.
The GUT AND LIVER team endeavors to make a good website. GUT AND LIVER website demonstrates that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards. It does not contain any misleading information, including any attempt to mimic another journal/publisher’s site.

The official journal title is the Gut and Liver, the abbreviation of ISO is Gut Liver.

The Gut and Liver has on online submission and peer review system at
https://www.editorialmanager.com/gnl/default.aspx.
All papers submitted to Gut and Liver are reviewed by the editorial team before being sent out for an external peer review to rule out papers that have low priority, insufficient originality, scientific flaws, or the absence of a message of importance to the readers of the Journal. A decision about these papers will usually be made within two or three weeks.
The remaining articles are usually sent to two reviewers. It would be very helpful if you could suggest a selection of reviewers and include their contact details. We may not always use the reviewers you recommend, but suggesting reviewers will make our reviewer database much richer; in the end, everyone will benefit. We reserve the right to return manuscripts in which no reviewers are suggested.

Gut and Liver is jointly owned and operated by 8 affiliated societies in the field of gastroenterology, namely: the Korean Society of Gastroenterology, the Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the Korean Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, the Korean College of Helicobacter and Upper Gastrointestinal Research, the Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases, the Korean Association for the Study of the Liver, the Korean Pancreatobiliary Association, and the Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Cancer. (http://gutnliver.org/content/about/owned_operated.html)

This Journal have a Publishing Committee (http://www.gutnliver.org/about/committee.html).

The governing body is the journal's editorial board. The full names and affiliations of the journal’s editors and members of journal management team are displayed on the About (Editorial Board) tab of journal homepage, and the contact information for the Editor and editorial office is on the Contact us tab.(http://gutnliver.org/content/about/contact_us.html)

Copyright to all published materials is owned by the 8 affiliated societies. (http://gutnliver.org/content/about/owned_operated.html) All authors should agree to the copyright transfer during the submission process.

The corresponding author is required to download and consolidate the sign the Copyright Assignment & Warranties Form on all authors. It includes a statement for full transfer of copyright to Gut and Liver, and must be submitted at the time of submission. As an open access journal, copyrighted material from Gut and Liver can be freely used according to the following conditions under the Creative Commons License:

• The person using Gut and Liver Online may use, reproduce, disseminate, or display the open access version of content from this journal for non-commercial purposes.
• Any use of the open access version of this journal in whole or in part must include the customary bibliographic citation, including author and publisher attribution, date, article title,
  Gut and Liver, and the URL (http://www.gutnliver.org/main.html) and must include a copy of the copyright notice. If an original work is subsequently reproduced or disseminated not in its entirety but only in part or as a derivative work, this must be clearly indicated.
• For any commercial use of material from the open access version of the journal, permission must be obtained from Gut and Liver (E-mail: office@gutnliver.org).
  - Re-use by a non-author/third party/other publisher of parts of or all of an article or articles in another publication (journal or book) to be sold for commercial purposes.
  - The proactive supply of multiple print or electronic copies of items taken from the Journal to third parties on a systematic basis for marketing purposes.
  - Re-use by an author of parts of or all of an article in other publications from commercial organizations.

Gut and Liver uses the Open Access publishing model in which all published articles are freely available to readers directly from the Journal's website. So, there are no author submission fees or other publication-related charges in online.

But it needs the article processing charges, about making PDF and Print.

• Original articles, review articles
  US$1000 per accepted article.
  *Invited articles are exempt from article processing charges.
• Case reports, brief communications, and letters
  US$250 per 4 printed pages or fewer; US 50 per additional page.
• Color charges
  US$100 for each illustration containing color
• Author reprints
  US$50 for 100 copies. VAT will be added.

The editorial board of Gut and Liver have carefully examined all submitted manuscripts whether these are abided by the ethical guidelines of the ICMJE and COPE. The published articles have involved the statements of conflict of interest, institutional review board, informed consent, and human/animal rights.

When the Journal faces suspected cases of research and publication misconduct such as a redundant (duplicate) publication, plagiarism, fabricated data, changes in authorship, undisclosed conflicts of interest, an ethical problem discovered with the submitted manuscript, a reviewer who has appropriated an author’s idea or data, complaints against editors, and other issues, the resolving process will follow the flowchart provided by the COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts). The editorial board of Gut and Liver will discuss the suspected cases and reach a decision. Gut and Liver will not hesitate to publish errata, corrigenda, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.

Gut and Liver follows the Guideline on Good Publication of COPE (https://publicationethics.org), Recommendations of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations), and Good Publication Practice Guidelines for Medical Journals of Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (http://kamje.or.kr).

Our publication ethics are displayed on the Editorial Policy (Publication Ethics) tab of journal homepage.

Gut and Liver is published Bimonthly (the 15th of January, March, May, July, September, and November; Odd month) a year, in both online and printed versions.

Gut and Liver is an open access journal. A free full-text service both in the XML and PDF formats is available immediately upon publication without embargo period.

Full text of Gut and Liver has been archived in PubMed Central (PMC) from the 1st volume, 2014. According to the deposit policy (self-archiving policy) of Sherpa/ Romeo (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/), authors cannot archive pre-print (i.e. pre-refereeing), but they can archive post-print (i.e. final draft post-refereeing). Authors can archive publisher's version/PDF. Vasc Specialist Int provides the electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content in the event the journal is no longer published by archiving in PubMed Central.

Revenue sources of journal are from the support of publisher and advertising rates.

Gut and Liver ccepts advertisements. Please contact the editorial office for details.

Journal propagation has been done through the journal web site and distribution of an introduction pamphlet. Invitations to submit a manuscript are usually focused on the presenters at conferences, seminars, or workshops if the topic is related to the journal's aims and scope.