Copyright Statement of Anhui Medical Journal

1. Authors shall bear full legal responsibility for their submitted manuscripts. The journal shall not be held jointly liable for any copyright infringement or other rights violations arising from plagiarism, disclosure of confidential information or other violations. The journal reserves the right to make appropriate deletions, revisions and format adjustments to submitted manuscripts in accordance with editorial requirements. Manuscripts shall not contain any state or enterprise confidential information.

2. All published papers of this journal are fully indexed and included in databases such as CNKI, Wanfang, and Chaoxing, and disseminated via multiple new media platforms. Submission of a manuscript shall be deemed as the authors’ authorization granting the journal the right of online communication of all text, tables, and figures contained in the work. Two complimentary copies of the issue in which the paper is published will be provided to the authors upon publication.

3. All authors warrant that there is no dispute regarding the author list and authorship order. For multi-institutional collaborative studies, authors also warrant that the institutional affiliation order is undisputed and that there are no intellectual property disputes. If the research data involved in the manuscript is not originally obtained from the author’s affiliated institution or involves materials from other organizations, the author must submit a data usage authorization from the data-providing institution, which shall be affixed with the official seal of the Science and Education Department of that institution.

4. Upon publication, the copyright of the work shall remain with the authors, while the editorial copyright shall belong to the journal. The journal reserves the rights of reproduction, distribution, compilation, information network communication, sub-licensing, and other related rights of the published manuscript, and may license the aforesaid rights to third parties. Authors who disagree with the above terms shall make a written statement at the time of submission; otherwise, they shall be deemed to have accepted all provisions herein.