Copyright and License Statement
Journal of Nantong University (Natural Science Edition) adopts open access policy. Accepted manuscripts will be published without any charges and a remuneration will be provided. Before submitting, authors should carefully read the following terms regarding copyright agreement.
Authors publishing articles in the journal are required to agree to the following terms:
1. Journal of Nantong University (Natural Science Edition) is an open access journal that allows readers to share the article under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) license.
The Creative Commons Licenses, which permits third-party users to share articles published in this journal in CC BY-NC manner. This means that third-parties are allowed to copy, distribute, exhibit, perform, or disseminate articles published in this journal, provided they give appropriate credit (author names and original content DOI link) and only for non-commercial purposes. More details are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
2. Once manuscripts accepted, authors are required to sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement to transfer the copyright of the article to the Editorial Office of Journal of Nantong University (Natural Science Edition). However, third-parties and authors have right to use the article under CC BY-NC License. The Editorial Office has right to transfer the above rights to third-parties, allowing for data indexing and collection by domestic and foreign literature retrieval systems and online databases, and it has right to publish the article in any media.
3. After publication, authors will receive a one-off remuneration, including the copyright transfer fee, from the Journal’s Editorial Office.