• The Journal of Construction uses a double-anonymous peer-review process for research manuscripts. Author identities are withheld from reviewers and reviewer identities are withheld from authors.
• All submissions undergo an initial technical and administrative assessment. This includes verification of required submission documents, author declarations, manuscript anonymisation, ethical-clearance documentation where applicable, formatting and reference requirements, conformity with the selected article type, scope, figure and table requirements and other technical requirements of the Journal. Similarity screening and other research-integrity checks may also be undertaken. In the event of any issue arising from these checks, a manuscript will be returned to the Corresponding Author for correction before scholarly assessment or where the submission is incomplete or does not comply with the Journal’s requirements.
• Following the initial screening phase, the overseeing Editor and/or the Associate Editor has the responsibility to then assesses whether the manuscript falls within the Journal’s scope, presents an identifiable scholarly contribution, engages appropriately with relevant literature, uses an appropriate and sufficiently rigorous methodology or analytical approach, is ethically and transparently reported and is of sufficient scholarly quality to justify external review. A manuscript may be declined without external peer review where it is clearly outside scope, does not meet the Journal’s minimum scholarly threshold, contains fundamental methodological or ethical problems or is otherwise unsuitable for further consideration. However, the final decision will lay with the Editor – in-Chief on the advisement of the Editorial Board.
• Research manuscripts proceeding to external review will ordinarily be assessed by at least two independent reviewers with appropriate subject and/or methodological expertise. Where a manuscript is interdisciplinary, reviewers with complementary areas of expertise will be appointed under the guidance of the Overseeing Editor and/or an Advisory Board member(s). Reviewers are expected to consider originality and significance, relevance to construction, project management or the built environment, theoretical or conceptual positioning, methodological or analytical rigour, sampling and evidence, interpretation of results, ethical considerations, coherence between evidence and conclusions, limitations and contribution to knowledge and all internal policy or practice aligned to ASSAF and COPE practices.
• Editorial decisions may include Accept, Minor Revision, Major Revision or Reject. Reviewers provide scholarly recommendations, but the final editorial decision remains the responsibility of the designated Editor. Where reviewer reports differ materially, the Editor may evaluate the respective scholarly arguments, seek clarification, appoint an additional reviewer or take another reasonable step necessary to reach a defensible decision. Revised manuscripts may be assessed editorially, returned to the original reviewers or sent to additional reviewers or to an Advisory Board member where further independent assessment is required.

• Peer reviewers are expected to provide independent, fair, rigorous and constructive scholarly assessment. Reviewers should accept an invitation only where they possess sufficient expertise and are able to complete the review within a reasonable period. Any actual, potential or perceived conflict of interest must be disclosed before the review is accepted, and a reviewer should decline where their independence could reasonably be questioned.
• Reviewer comments must address the scholarly work rather than the author and should be evidence-based, constructive and professionally expressed. Reviewers should distinguish substantive scholarly concerns from personal preferences and should identify material methodological, ethical, analytical or interpretive weaknesses where present. Coercive citation, self-serving citation requests and attempts to manipulate citation metrics are not acceptable.
• Submitted manuscripts, unpublished data and editorial correspondence are confidential. Reviewers will be subjected to a non-disclosure agreement upon appointment and must therefore not share manuscripts with unauthorised third parties or use unpublished information obtained through peer review for personal, professional, research, financial or competitive advantage. Reviewers must not upload confidential manuscripts, manuscript extracts, unpublished data or identifiable submission material to public generative-AI systems or other services where that content may be retained, reused or disclosed. Any permitted technological assistance does not replace the reviewer’s own scholarly judgement or responsibility.

• Authors are responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity and appropriate reporting of work submitted to the Journal. Authorship must reflect genuine scholarly contribution and appropriate accountability for the work. Gift, honorary, guest and ghost authorship are not permitted.
• All listed authors should have made an appropriate intellectual or scholarly contribution, which must be recorded and all authors shall first approve the submitted manuscript, with the agreed to or the intended order of authorship and accepted responsibility for their contribution. Contributors who do not satisfy the threshold for authorship may be recognised in the Acknowledgements with their permission.
• The Corresponding Author serves as the primary contact between the authors and the Journal and confirms that they are authorised to act on behalf of all co-authors for the purpose of submission and editorial communication. The Corresponding Author is responsible for ensuring that all co-authors are informed of material revisions, declarations, editorial developments and the final publication decision.
• Requests to add, remove or reorder authors after submission must be made in writing, must explain the reason for the requested change and should ordinarily include the agreement of all affected authors. The Journal may request further evidence. Complex private authorship disputes that properly fall within institutional responsibility will not ordinarily be adjudicated by the Journal, and editorial processing may be suspended while an appropriate institution considers the matter.

Editorial and Post-Publication Responsibility

• The authors acknowledge that acceptance of a manuscript remains subject to the Journal’s editorial and peer-review processes and that payment of any Article Processing Charge does not guarantee acceptance or publication.
• The authors agree to cooperate with reasonable enquiries concerning authorship, research ethics, data integrity, competing interests, copyright, permissions, citation integrity or other matters affecting the scholarly record.
• Where justified, the Journal reserves the right to correct, amend, withdraw, retract or issue an appropriate editorial notice concerning a published article in accordance with its publication-ethics policies and recognised scholarly-publishing practice.

• Submission to the Journal requires the Corresponding Author to accept the Journal’s Author Agreement, Declaration and Permission to Publish on behalf of all authors. By accepting the declaration, the Corresponding Author confirms that they are authorised to act on behalf of the co-authors and that, to the best of their knowledge, that the manuscript constitutes original scholarly work except where the contributions of others have been appropriately acknowledged, all authors have approved the submitted manuscript, the authorship information and order are accurate, the manuscript is not simultaneously under consideration elsewhere unless this has been disclosed to and accepted by the Editor, and all required ethical approvals, exemptions, informed-consent processes and research-access permissions have been obtained.
• The authors further confirm that all relevant funding and competing interests have been disclosed, that they possess the necessary rights and permissions for material included in the manuscript, that references and citations have been checked for accuracy and legitimate scholarly relevance, that substantive use of AI or AI-assisted technologies has been disclosed where required, and that the research and results have not knowingly been fabricated, falsified or materially misrepresented.
• By submitting the manuscript, the authors authorise the Journal to undertake activities reasonably necessary to receive, assess and process the work, including editorial assessment, double-anonymous peer review, similarity and integrity screening, correspondence, copy-editing and production. If the manuscript is accepted, the authors grant the Journal of Construction and its publisher a continuing, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to publish, reproduce, disseminate, index, archive, preserve and maintain the official Version of Record.
• By submitting a manuscript to the Journal of Construction, the Corresponding Author, acting with the authority of all co-authors, represents and warrants that the information supplied during submission is complete and accurate and that the declarations made above are true to the best of the authors’ knowledge.
  
• The authors confirm that the manuscript constitutes original scholarly work, except where material derived from other sources has been appropriately acknowledged; that all persons listed as authors meet the Journal’s authorship requirements and have approved the manuscript; and that no person who meets the requirements for authorship has been intentionally omitted.
  
• The authors further confirm that all research reported in the manuscript was undertaken in accordance with applicable ethical, institutional and legal requirements; that all necessary ethical approvals, informed consents, research-access permissions and third-party permissions were obtained where required; and that the authors have lawful authority to submit and publish the data, text, images and other material included in the submission.
  
• The authors authorise the Journal and persons acting on its behalf to undertake such editorial and publishing activities as are reasonably necessary to evaluate, process and, where accepted, publish the manuscript. These activities may include editorial screening, double-anonymous peer review, plagiarism or similarity screening, research-integrity checks, citation verification, copy-editing, typesetting, production, DOI registration, publication, dissemination, indexing, metadata distribution, archiving and digital preservation.
  
• Where legitimate concerns arise regarding authorship, ethical approval, research integrity, competing interests, permissions or the accuracy of information supplied to the Journal, the authors acknowledge that the Journal may undertake reasonable enquiries and, where appropriate and lawful, may seek verification from relevant institutions, ethics committees, funders, publishers or other competent bodies. Any such enquiries should be undertaken in accordance with the Journal’s policies, applicable law and recognised publication-ethics procedures.
• Copyright in the underlying scholarly content remains with the author or authors, subject to any rights lawfully held by an employer, institution, funder, the Journal and a third party. The publisher of the Journal of Construction is recognised as the original publisher and place of first publication of the Version of Record. To the extent recognised by applicable law, rights associated with the Journal’s typographical arrangement, publication design, branding, masthead, logo and Journal-specific production elements are reserved to the publisher of the Journal.

• Research submitted to the Journal must comply with applicable ethical, legal, institutional and professional requirements, and such evidence must be submitted to the Journal and in some cases on request. Ethical review is ordinarily required where institutional or legal requirements apply, including research involving human participants, interviews, questionnaires, surveys, focus groups, identifiable observation, vulnerable populations, personal or sensitive information, employee or organisational participant data, interventions involving human participants, identifiable photographs, audio or video recordings, health-related human research, animals, protected environments or regulated activities.
• Ethical approval must be obtained before the relevant research or data collection commences. Where approval was required, the manuscript and submission records must identify the approving Research Ethics Committee or institution, the approval or clearance number and the date of approval where available. The applicable ethical clearance certificate or formal approval letter must be uploaded separately.
• Where an authorised Research Ethics Committee or institution formally determined that ethical review was not required, the relevant exemption, waiver or determination should be provided where available. Retrospective ethical approval obtained merely for publication purposes is not treated as equivalent to prospective approval.
• Where informed consent was required, authors must explain how it was obtained and how participant privacy, confidentiality and data protection were addressed. Consent to participate does not necessarily constitute consent to publish identifiable information, and specific publication permission must be obtained where identification is possible and such permission is required.
• Ethical clearance does not automatically constitute permission to enter an organisation or access restricted data. Where research was undertaken through an organisation, institution, company, project, community or other controlled research environment, the relevant gatekeeper, institutional access, organisational permission or data-access letter must be provided where such permission was required. Supporting ethical and research-access documents are treated as confidential editorial records and are not ordinarily supplied to peer reviewers.

The Journal expects research and scholarly reporting to be honest, accurate, transparent and capable of appropriate scholarly scrutiny. Conduct that may compromise the integrity of the scholarly record includes plagiarism, fabrication or falsification, inappropriate manipulation or use of data or images, duplicate or redundant publication, undisclosed substantial text recycling, inappropriate fragmentation of research, simultaneous submission, citation manipulation, peer-review manipulation, fabricated reviewers, fabricated or unverifiable references, false or misleading authorship, undisclosed material competing interests, unethical research and deliberate methodological or evidential misrepresentation.

Submitted manuscripts will be screened using similarity, plagiarism and artificial intelligence detection and related research-integrity tools. A similarity percentage is not treated automatically as evidence of plagiarism. Similarity reports are interpreted contextually, taking account of the amount, nature, attribution and location of matched material.

Concerns that may arise before or after publication may be raised by authors, reviewers, readers, institutions, whistleblowers or other parties. Credible concerns will be considered fairly and as confidentially as circumstances permit. The Journal may request source data, analysis records, ethics documentation, permissions, authorship evidence, research instruments, correspondence or other records including direct and probative evidence relevant to the matter. Where necessary, the Journal through its editors may contact authors’ institutions, ethics bodies, funders or other appropriate authorities. A whistleblower’s identity will not be disclosed unnecessarily, although absolute confidentiality cannot be guaranteed where disclosure is legally required or essential to a fair investigation.

• Authors, reviewers and editors must disclose actual, potential or reasonably perceived competing interests that could influence or appear to influence scholarly judgement. Competing interests may be financial, professional, academic, institutional, commercial, personal or otherwise relevant.
• Disclosure of a competing interest does not automatically disqualify a manuscript, reviewer or editor. It enables the Journal to determine whether the interest can be appropriately managed. Editors with material conflicts must recuse themselves from the relevant manuscript. Reviewers should decline where their independence could reasonably be questioned. Authors must provide a competing-interest declaration and should state explicitly where no relevant competing interest exists.

Third-party material and intellectual-property rights

• The authors confirm that they hold, or have obtained, all rights, licences and permissions necessary to submit and publish the text, data, tables, figures, photographs, illustrations, research instruments and other material contained in the manuscript.
• Where material belonging to a third party requires permission for publication, the authors confirm that such permission has been obtained and agree to provide documentary evidence to the Journal where requested.

Copyright and Publication Rights

• Copyright in the underlying scholarly content of the manuscript remains with the author(s), subject to any rights lawfully held by an employer, institution, funder or other third party.
  By submitting the manuscript and, if accepted, agreeing to its publication, the authors grant the Journal of Construction and its publisher a continuing, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to:
  • Receive, store and process the manuscript and associated files;
  • Undertake editorial assessment and peer review;
  • Conduct similarity, citation, research-integrity and other appropriate editorial checks;
  • Edit, copy-edit, proofread, typeset and format the accepted work;
  • Reproduce and publish the article in electronic, print and other appropriate scholarly formats;
  • Create, publish and maintain the official version of record;
  • Distribute, communicate and make the version of record available through the journal and authorised publishing platforms;
  • Register and maintain doi and bibliographic metadata;
  • Provide the article and its metadata to crossref, indexing, abstracting, discovery and scholarly information services;
  • Archive, preserve and migrate the article as technologies and publishing systems develop;
  • Reproduce or display the article for legitimate journal-related scholarly, educational, promotional, archival and preservation purposes; and
  • Take reasonable steps to maintain the integrity, accessibility and scholarly record of the published article.
  • These publication rights continue after publication and are not affected by the author’s continuing ownership of copyright in the underlying scholarly content.

• Artificial intelligence systems cannot be listed as authors because authorship requires human responsibility and accountability. Authors must disclose substantive use of generative AI or AI-assisted systems where those technologies materially contributed to generation or transformation of manuscript content, research design, data analysis, generation or alteration of research images, interpretation, coding or other substantive analytical activity. While the journal recognises the role of Ai assisted writing, it is the position of the journal that only 10% of the journals content may be AI assisted writing and the latter original research.
• The disclosure of AI assistance should identify the relevant tool and explain its role sufficiently for the Editor and reader to understand how it was used. Authors remain responsible for factual accuracy, originality, references and citations, data integrity, analysis, copyright and permissions, confidentiality, interpretation and conclusions. Routine tools used solely for spelling, grammar, reference management or accessibility do not ordinarily require disclosure where they do not generate substantive scholarly content.
• AI must not be used to fabricate evidence or citations, disguise plagiarism, create deceptive research content or manipulate submission, peer review or editorial processes. Reviewers and editors are similarly required to protect manuscript confidentiality when using AI-assisted technologies.

• Authors should report research with sufficient transparency for readers and reviewers to understand how evidence was generated and how conclusions were reached. Where relevant, manuscripts should identify the research design, data sources, sampling or case-selection procedures, instruments, analytical methods, assumptions, validation or quality-assurance procedures, ethical safeguards and important limitations.
• Where relevant, authors should include a Data Availability Statement explaining where supporting data can be accessed, the conditions governing access or why the data cannot be shared. Data must not be made publicly available where disclosure would breach participant confidentiality, informed-consent conditions, POPIA, intellectual-property rights, contractual obligations, legitimate commercial confidentiality, legal or security restrictions or other ethical obligations.
• The Journal encourages the use of appropriate disciplinary reporting guidelines where these improve transparency and reproducibility. Editors may request supporting information where reasonably necessary to evaluate a manuscript or investigate a research-integrity concern.

• The Journal processes personal information in accordance with applicable South African law given the geographical and temporal location of the Journal and its publisher being in South Africa, and therefore in accordance to the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA).
• Personal information processed during submission and publication may include names, titles, affiliations, countries, ORCID iDs, email addresses, contact numbers, correspondence, authorship information, funding and competing-interest declarations, ethical-clearance records, reviewer information, Article Processing Charge administration information and other information reasonably required for scholarly publishing.
• Such information may be processed for legitimate editorial, peer-review, ethical-compliance, research-integrity, communication, production, publication, indexing, archiving, financial, record-keeping and legal purposes. Access to confidential editorial records is restricted to authorised persons and service providers who require access for legitimate purposes.
• The Editorial Cover Page, Author Information Page, reviewer identities and supporting ethics or research-permission documentation are confidential editorial records and are not ordinarily disclosed to peer reviewers or the public. Public author information is limited to information appropriate to scholarly publication.
• Personal information supplied through the submission and publication process, including names, affiliations, ORCID iDs, contact information, authorship information and supporting editorial documentation, will be processed in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) and the Journal’s Privacy Notice.
• Such information may be processed for legitimate and specified purposes connected with manuscript administration, editorial assessment, peer review, ethical and research-integrity verification, author correspondence, production, publication, DOI registration, indexing, archiving, preservation and compliance with applicable legal and scholarly publishing obligations.
• Access to confidential author and ethical documentation must be restricted to persons who require access for legitimate editorial, publishing, legal or compliance purposes. Personal information should not be retained for longer than reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to any lawful archival, contractual, evidential or record-retention requirement. POPIA expressly requires purpose specification, information quality, openness and security safeguards in the processing of personal information.
• Where the Journal uses external publishing, hosting, indexing, archiving or other service providers, personal information may be processed by authorised service providers to the extent reasonably required for those functions and subject to applicable data-protection requirements. Any cross-border processing or transfer of personal information must be undertaken in accordance with POPIA and the Journal’s Privacy Notice.
• I would use “I acknowledge” rather than simply “I consent” for the entire POPIA clause. Consent is not the only basis on which processing can lawfully occur under POPIA, and you do not want the Journal’s necessary editorial records suddenly appearing to depend entirely upon a revocable consent. POPIA establishes a broader framework of conditions for lawful processing.

• Authors may appeal an editorial decision where they believe that a material factual, scholarly or procedural error affected the outcome. An appeal is not intended simply as an opportunity to disagree with academic judgement.
• An appeal should ordinarily be submitted within 30 calendar days of the decision and should identify the manuscript, the decision being appealed, the grounds for appeal and the evidence supporting the request for reconsideration. Where practicable, the appeal should be considered by a senior editor who was not solely responsible for the original decision. The Journal may uphold the original decision, reconsider the manuscript, obtain further expert assessment, return the manuscript to peer review or take another appropriate step. Ordinarily, one formal appeal will be considered for each manuscript.
• All appeals should be directed to editor@journalofconstruction.com
• Complaints may relate to editorial conduct, peer-review administration, publication ethics, Journal procedures or administrative handling. A person who is directly the subject of a complaint must not be solely responsible for determining that complaint. Where necessary, the matter may be referred to an advisory board member(s), the publisher or another appropriate authority governing the Journal.

• The Journal’s and its publisher’s responsibility for the scholarly record continues after publication. Readers, authors, reviewers and other parties may raise substantive concerns regarding published work.
• A correction may be issued where an error affects the accuracy, interpretation or completeness of an article without invalidating the work as a whole. The correction should be linked clearly to the affected article. An Expression of Concern may be issued where serious questions have arisen but an investigation remains incomplete or sufficient evidence is not yet available to reach a final determination.
• Retraction may be appropriate where the reliability or integrity of an article is substantially compromised, including through fabrication or falsification, substantial plagiarism, serious methodological error, unethical research, duplicate publication, manipulated peer review, major undisclosed competing interests or other serious integrity failures. A retraction notice should identify the article and explain the reason as clearly as circumstances permit. The original article should normally remain part of the scholarly record and be clearly marked as retracted rather than silently removed. Removal should occur only in exceptional circumstances involving compelling legal, privacy, safety or similar considerations.
• Where a retraction of a manuscript is done post payment of APC charges, the journal and its publishers reserve the right to an administrative handling fee of 60% to cover overhead costs.
• The Journal also welcomes evidence-based post-publication scholarly discussion. Substantive concerns or corrections should be directed to the editorial office for assessment.

• The Journal of Construction is an Open Access journal. Published scholarly articles are made available online without a subscription or reader paywall. The Journal charges an Article Processing Charge (APC) in accordance with its published fee schedule. No fee is payable merely for submitting a manuscript unless the Journal expressly introduces and publishes such a fee. The ability or inability of an author to pay an APC must not influence editorial assessment, reviewer selection or the decision to accept or reject a manuscript.
• Copyright in the underlying scholarly content remains with the author or authors, subject to any rights lawfully held by another rights holder and the Journal’s Publisher. Upon acceptance, the authors grant the Journal of Construction and its publisher a continuing, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to publish, reproduce, distribute, communicate, index, archive, preserve and maintain the official Version of Record.
• The Journal and its publisher is recognised as the original publisher and place of first publication of the Version of Record. Subsequent reproduction, deposit or reuse should appropriately acknowledge the authors and the original publication in the Journal and should cite the Version of Record and DOI where reasonably practicable. To the extent recognised by applicable law, rights in the Journal’s typographical arrangement, journal layout, graphic presentation, masthead, logo, branding and other Journal-specific production elements are reserved to the Journal and/or its publisher.
• Authors are responsible for obtaining all permissions required to publish third-party material and for providing evidence of permission where requested.

• The Journal is committed to maintaining long-term access to its scholarly record. Published articles and metadata should be maintained through secure hosting, appropriate backups and a recognised digital-preservation or repository arrangement. The Journal should identify its confirmed preservation provider publicly once such an arrangement has been established.
  Persistent identifiers such as DOIs should be used to support stable citation and discovery.
• The Journal retains appropriate records of manuscript processing, including submitted manuscript versions, author declarations, reviewer invitations and reports, editorial decisions, revisions and author responses, ethics and permission documentation, integrity-related correspondence and other records necessary to establish the editorial history of the publication. Access to confidential records is restricted to legitimate editorial, governance, legal, integrity or audit purposes. Retention and preservation practices must be managed consistently with POPIA and other applicable legal and scholarly obligations.

• Editorial and peer-review decisions are based on scholarly merit and research integrity. Decisions must not be influenced by irrelevant personal characteristics, nationality, institutional affiliation, geographic location, career stage or similar considerations.
• Authors, reviewers and editors are expected to communicate professionally and respectfully. Discriminatory, harassing, threatening, humiliating or defamatory communication is not acceptable. Authors should use accurate and respectful terminology when referring to the editors, people, populations and communities. The Journal seeks reasonable ways to support accessibility in submission, review and publication processes. Its commitment to inclusivity does not reduce requirements for originality, scholarly rigour, methodological quality or ethical compliance.

• The Journal will maintain clear and current information on its website concerning its title, ISSN, publishing entity, Editor-in-Chief and all other editorial committees, publication frequency, peer-review model, reference style, publication language, Article Processing Charge, editorial contact details and website address.
• The Journal’s operational practices will be maintained with regard to applicable DHET requirements, including peer review, publication according to the stated frequency, institutional diversity of published contributions and an appropriately constituted editorial structure. Claims regarding DHET recognition or accreditation will be made only while such status is current and verifiable.
• The Journal may state that its editorial practices are aligned with the ASSAf Revised Code of Best Practice in Scholarly Journal Publishing, Editing, and Peer Review and guided by COPE Core Practices, but will not imply endorsement, certification or membership that has not formally been established.
• These policies form part of the Journal of Construction’s editorial and publishing framework and are reviewed periodically to ensure that they remain appropriate to developments in scholarly publishing, research integrity, applicable legislation and recognised good practice.
• The Journal seeks to apply its policies fairly, consistently and proportionately, with appropriate regard for the circumstances of each matter and the integrity of the scholarly record. Where a matter is not expressly addressed, the Journal may be guided by applicable law, recognised publication-ethics principles and appropriate scholarly-publishing practice.
• Personal information and confidential editorial records arising from submission, peer review and publication are managed in accordance with the Journal’s Privacy provisions and applicable South African data-protection requirements. Copyright, publication and reproduction rights are governed by the Journal’s published policies and the terms accepted by authors during the submission and publication process.
• Material amendments to these policies will be reflected on the Journal website. The version displayed on the official Journal of Construction website represents the current policy framework.

Journal Version of Record and Published Edition

• Upon publication, the final peer-reviewed, edited, typeset and formally published article constitutes the official Journal of Construction Version of Record.
• The Journal of Construction is the original publisher and place of first publication of the Version of Record.
  Where the article is subsequently reproduced, deposited, circulated, referred to or otherwise reused, the authors agree that the original publication in the Journal of Construction should be appropriately acknowledged and that the Version of Record and DOI should be cited where reasonably practicable.
• To the extent recognised by applicable law, rights subsisting in the Journal’s published edition, typographical arrangement, page composition, graphic presentation, journal branding, logo, masthead and other Journal-specific production elements are reserved to the Journal of Construction and/or its publisher.
• The authors’ copyright in the underlying scholarly content is therefore distinct from the Journal’s rights and interests in the publication, production and Version-of-Record elements of the published article.

Last reviewed: September 2026
Policy version: 1.00
Next Review Date: September 2027