Author Agreement & Licence

This page explains what authors agree to when they submit to the journal.

What authors confirm

• The work is original, is submitted for first publication in this journal, and is not under consideration or published elsewhere.
• All authors meet the authorship criteria and have approved the manuscript and its submission.
• The authors hold the rights to all material in it, or have obtained permission for third-party material, and the work does not infringe the rights of others.
• Ethical approvals, consents, funding and conflicts of interest are stated correctly.

Copyright and licence

Authors retain the copyright to their article. They grant the journal the right of first publication and publish the article under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), which allows others to share and adapt the work, including commercially, with appropriate credit. See Copyright & Licensing and Journal permissions.

Reuse by authors

Authors may deposit and share the published version, with a link to the original article and its DOI, at any time and without an embargo.

How the agreement is made

The agreement is accepted electronically when the manuscript is submitted. The editorial office may ask for a signed copy in special cases, for example when a co-author’s consent is in doubt. Authors who wish to withdraw a manuscript before acceptance may do so by writing to info@reandpub.uz.