Since 2019, Phoenix Medical Journal has not asked authors of journal articles to assign us their copyrights. Authors (or their employers) retain their copyright in the article. All we require from authors is to accept the publication under the CC BY license. All articles published by Phoenix Medical Journal are published by as open access (irrespective of who funded the research), and reuse is permitted in accordance with the terms of the CC BY open-access license.

The authors own the copyright of their work published in Phoenix Medical Journal, and their work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY 4.0). CC BY license allows the work to be shared, copied, and reproduced in any size and format. It also allows it to be rearranged, transformed, and adapted, including building upon the original work, with proper reference to it.

When uploading their manuscript to the online system of our journal, the authors read the copyright agreement stated below and upload a wet-signed copy.

Writer(s);

• The submitted article is the original work of the author(s), and they do not plagiarize,
• All authors have participated in this study individually, and they take all responsibility for this study.
• All authors have seen and approved the final version of the submitted article.
• The article has not been published elsewhere or submitted for Publication.
• They accept and undertake that the text, figures, and documents in the article do not violate the copyrights of other parties.
• The copyright of the published article belongs to its author under CC BY 4.0 license.
• The authors grant the right to freely use the article to any third party as long as the original authors and citation details are identified
  

Nothing in this license impairs or restricts an author's right to preserve the integrity and ownership of their work.