After acceptance, your article will be typeset into our house style (see our Style guide for journal articles) using the source files that you have provided. This includes conversion of figure files and sizing them to fit the journal template. A proof will then be produced, which you will be asked to check.
Most IOP Publishing journals offer the option to make the Accepted Manuscript version available within 24 hours of acceptance. At this point, you can start to promote your paper to your peers (see the ‘After publication’ section for more details). For further information on the ‘Accepted Manuscript’ process, and which of our journals offer this option, please see our Accepted Manuscripts page.
Please note that, in exceptional circumstances, we reserve the right to withdraw an article at any time before publishing.
After your article has been published, you should add the following information to the preprint:
- Citation details of the Version of Record;
- A link from the preprint to the Version of Record via DOI (digital object identifier); and
- The wording as set out below:
‘This is the version of the article before peer review or editing, as submitted by an author to [INSERT NAME OF JOURNAL]. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at [INSERT DOI]’
Our preprint policy applies to both subscription and gold open access articles. Under this policy, authors are permitted to share a Preprint of their article anywhere at any time, as long as copyright in the Preprint is not transferred, and as long as an exclusive licence is not granted to a third party. For more information, please see our preprint policy.
Our preprint policy applies to both subscription and gold open access articles. Under this policy, authors are permitted to share a Preprint of their article anywhere at any time, as long as copyright in the Preprint is not transferred, and as long as an exclusive licence is not granted to a third party. For more information, please see our preprint policy.
IOP grants back certain rights to authors to make limited use of an article published under the subscription model.
Authors have varying depositing rights for the Author’s Original/Preprint as set out expressly in the preprint pre-publication policy, copyright form you signed and also the author rights policy which applies to the particular journal in which the article was published.
Authors also have varying depositing rights for the Accepted Manuscript in non-commercial repositories and non-commercial scientific social networks. The rights you have as an author are those rights set out expressly in the copyright form you signed and also the author rights policy which applies to the particular journal in which the article was published.
Some of these rights only apply after the end of the applicable Embargo Period.
For specific information on your depositing rights as an author, as well as any reuse rights, ensure you check the copyright form you signed for the article and also the journal’s author rights policy. Please refer to our Author Rights Policy page. If this does not answer the author rights query you have, please contact permissions@ioppublishing.org.
IOP Publishing (IOP) supports the posting of preprints of articles. Please refer to our preprint policy. The policy applies to all articles submitted to or published by IOP, whether on a subscription or on a gold open access basis.
It is important to understand which version of an article you are reading and what rights you have when you publish with IOP. Is it the un-edited manuscript, the peer-reviewed manuscript, the final version or one that has been corrected post-publication? The following are our current definitions of the different versions of an article and apply to both subscription and gold open access articles.
Versions
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Author's Original/Preprint
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is 'the version of the article before peer review or editing, as submitted by an author to the journal'.
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Accepted Manuscript
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is 'the version of the article accepted for publication including all changes made as a result of the peer review process, and which may also include the addition to the article by IOP Publishing of a header, an article ID, a cover sheet and/or an 'Accepted Manuscript' watermark, but excluding any other editing, typesetting or other changes made by IOP Publishing and/or its licensors'.
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Final Published Version
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is 'the peer reviewed, edited, formatted and typeset version of the article, including any tagging, indexing and other enhancements published by IOP Publishing and/or its licensors'.
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Version of Record
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is 'the Final Published Version, including any post publication corrections or enhancements and any other changes made by IOP Publishing and/or its licensors'.
All gold open access articles published by IOP from circa 2013 onwards are, unless stated otherwise, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) licence. This means that the article will be freely available for anyone to view and full reuse by third parties is permitted for any purpose.
Most gold open access articles published by IOP prior to 2013 are, unless stated otherwise, published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. This means that the article will be freely available for anyone to view and reuse for non-commercial purposes, provided that they distribute the content under the same licence.
The article will be made available under a specific Creative Commons licence. This means that the article is free to view and certain rights are granted to authors and third parties under the specific Creative Commons licence. An article publication charge (APC) applies for publication on this basis.
