The Copyright Agreement Form must be signed with a blue coloured pen and uploaded to the system as PDF. The form can be filled out in separate copies by authors from different institutions. However, all signatures must be in blue coloured pen and must be merged and uploaded to the system as a single PDF. Authors own the copyright of their works published in the journal and their works are published under the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence.

During submission, the following commitment is obtained from the author with wet signature:
1) I am authorised/authorised by the co-authors to submit this work to your journal.
2) The manuscript is original, has not been formally published in another peer-reviewed journal, is not under consideration by another journal, and does not infringe any existing copyright or other third-party rights.
3) I/we agree that if the article is accepted for editorial publication, it will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence.
4) Authors consent to the publication of their submitted intellectual work by the Publisher under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence permits the work to be shared, copied, reproduced, and adapted in any size and format except for commercial use, including remixing, transforming, and building upon the work, provided that proper attribution is given to the original work.
5) Copyright and intellectual property rights of the author(s) or, if applicable, the author(s)' employer are reserved.
6) The author(s) undertake(s) that the Publisher is not responsible for any claims or lawsuits to be filed by third parties due to copyright infringement, and that all responsibility belongs to them.
The author(s) undertake(s) that there are no criminal offences or illegal expressions in the article, and that no illegal materials and methods were used during the research.

Authors are deemed to have accepted the following terms by submitting their work to the journal under the CC BY-NC licence.
1. The copyright of the published article belongs to the author.
2. Authors authorise this Journal to publish the article and to identify itself as the original publisher.
3. Authors grant any third party the right to use the article freely, as long as the original authors and citation details are identified.
4. Nothing in this licence impairs or restricts an author's right to protect the integrity and ownership of their work.
5. All commercial rights related to the article belong to the authors.

Click here to access the Copyright Agreement Form.