After acceptance

What happens between acceptance and publication, and what you can do afterwards.

Production

Copyediting
Your paper is prepared for publication: structure, references, figures and tables are checked and typeset. You will be asked to confirm the front matter, the author list and the declarations.
Proof
You receive a proof and approve it. Corrections at proof stage are for errors, not for new results. Proofs come from [email protected], which is also where to reply.
Publication
The article is published with a DOI registered at Crossref, together with its full reference list, its licence, and every author's ORCID iD.

What you get

A permanent DOI that will resolve for as long as the DOI system exists.
A typeset PDF and a full-text web version.
JATS XML of the article, which is what indexes and archives read.
Your paper in the journal's feed, its sitemap, and its OAI-PMH endpoint the moment it is published.

What you may do with it

Anything you like. You keep the copyright, and the published version is open access under CC BY 4.0. Deposit it, teach from it, translate it, put it on your own site. See the repository policy for the versions and the timing, which is: all of them, immediately.

This policy applies to every journal we publish. Last revised 28 August 2026.