Copyright & Publishing Agreement
Standard author agreement granting non-exclusive CC-BY 4.0 publication licence while retaining copyright.
This agreement governs the copyright, licensing, and author warranties for all manuscripts published on the CAS Journals platform. Authors retain copyright under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0).
COPYRIGHT AND PUBLISHING AGREEMENT
This Agreement is made between the author(s) named above (“the Author”) and the Journal, its managers and the publishing platform, regarding the above manuscript (“the Article”).
1. Copyright
The Author retains copyright and full ownership of the Article. This Agreement does not transfer copyright to the Publisher.
2. Licence to Publish
The Author grants the Publisher a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to publish, reproduce, distribute, and display the Article in all formats and media, and to be identified as the original place of publication.
3. Open-Access Licence
The Article will be published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 licence. This allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, and build upon the Article, provided the original authors and source are properly credited.
4. Author Warranties
The Author confirms that:
- The Article is original and is the Author’s own work.
- It has not been published before and is not under consideration elsewhere.
- It does not infringe any existing copyright and contains nothing unlawful, defamatory, or in breach of any duty of confidentiality.
- All co-authors have contributed to the work, have seen and approved the final version, and have agreed to its submission and publication.
- Where any third-party material (figures, images, tables, extended quotations) is included, the Author has obtained written permission to reproduce it.
- Any conflicts of interest and sources of funding have been disclosed.
5. Author Rights Retained
The Author retains the right to:
- Reuse the Article in their future work, teaching and thesis or dissertation.
- Deposit the published version in institutional or subject repositories and on personal or academic networking pages, with acknowledgement of first publication in the journal.
- Be properly credited as the author of the Article.
6. Responsibility
The views expressed in the Article are those of the Author(s) and not necessarily those of the Journal, Publisher, the Publishing platform, the editors, or the host or author’ affiliated University. The Author(s) accepts responsibility for the content of the Article.
7. Signature
By signing below, the corresponding author confirms that they are authorised to enter into this Agreement on behalf of all authors and that all authors accept its terms.