Copyright and Publishing Rights
The copyright position and publishing rights must be stated clearly in the author agreement and on each article. Authors should not transfer rights they do not own and must identify third-party material requiring separate permission.
Licence
The journal currently displays Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. The licence notice on the article landing page and PDF is the authoritative reuse statement for that article.
Author Responsibilities
- Obtain consent from all co-authors before publication.
- Disclose prior versions, preprints, translations and conference papers.
- Secure permission for copyrighted images, instruments, scales or long extracts.
- Provide accurate attribution and preserve moral rights.
The journal may request a signed publication consent form before production.