Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA)

Please print the Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) that is present here, complete and sign it from all authors’ of the article, scan it and upload it to the journal website.

 

Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA)  

 It must be uploaded upon acceptance for the paper: 

Contributors’ form (to be modified as applicable and one signed copy attached with the manuscript) 

Journal 
Title: ________________________________________________________________     ___________________ 

 Manuscript 
Title: 
___________________________________________________________________________________ 
 Manuscript 
Number: ________________________________________________________________________________ 

I/we certify that I/we have participated sufficiently in the intellectual content, conception and design of this work or 
the analysis and interpretation of the data (when applicable), as well as the writing of the manuscript, to take public 
responsibility for it and have agreed to have my/our name listed as a contributor. I/we believe the manuscript 
represents valid work. Each author confirms they meet the criteria for authorship as established by the ICMJE. Neither 
this manuscript nor one with substantially similar content under my/our authorship has been published or is being 
considered for publication elsewhere, except as described in the covering letter. I/we certify that all the data collected 
during the study is presented in this manuscript and no data from the study has been or will be published separately. 
I/we attest that, if requested by the editors, I/we will provide the data/information or will cooperate fully in obtaining 
and providing the data/information on which the manuscript is based, for examination by the editors or their 
assignees. Financial interests, direct or indirect, that exist or may be perceived to exist for individual contributors in 
connection with the content of this paper have been disclosed in the cover letter. Sources of outside support of the 
project are named in the cover letter. 

I/We hereby transfer(s), assign(s), or otherwise, convey(s) all copyright ownership, including any and all rights 
incidental thereto, exclusively to the Journal, in the event that such work is published by the Journal. The Journal shall 
own the work, including  ) copyright;  ) the right to grant permission to republish the article in whole or in part, with 
or without fee;  ) the right to produce preprints or reprints and translate into languages other than English for sale or 
free distribution; and  ) the right to republish the work in a collection of articles in any other mechanical or electronic 
format. 

We give the rights to the corresponding author to make necessary changes as per the request of the journal, do the 
rest of the correspondence on our behalf and he/she will act as the guarantor for the manuscript on our behalf. 

All persons who have made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript, but who are not 
contributors, are named in the Acknowledgment and have given me/us their written permission to be named. If I/we 
do not include an Acknowledgment that means I/we have not received substantial contributions from non-contributors 
and no contributor has been omitted. 

                 Name                                                     Signature                                               Date signed 

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authors meet the ICMJE criteria stated above)