Post-acceptance

Proofs

The corresponding author will receive an e-mail containing a URL linking to the proofing site. Proof corrections must be returned within 72 hours of receipt. Failure to do so may result in delayed publication. Extensive changes cannot be made at this stage.

Publication

Publishing Open Access will mean the paper is freely accessible online immediately upon publication. By paying this charge, authors are permitted to post the final, published PDF of their article on a website, institutional repository or other free public server, immediately on publication.

Open access articles are published under a CC BY license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License). Under Creative Commons licenses, authors retain copyright in their work. Authors should note that some funders require papers to be published under a specific license and so should check the funder mandate to ensure compliance.

The editorial office can provide the authors with no more than 10 copies of the color-printed journal for free, which can be used by the authors for publicity or as souvenirs. If authors need printed journals, they can contact the editorial office.

Self-archiving

Authors are encouraged to submit the final version of the accepted, peer-reviewed manuscript to their funding body's archive for public release immediately upon publication and to deposit the final version on their institution’s repository.