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JPMC publishes under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license. This allows wide dissemination of preventive medicine research while ensuring authors receive proper credit.

The license supports educational reuse, policy translation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, which are essential for translating prevention research into practice.

• Reuse, distribution, and adaptation with attribution
• Translation and educational reuse for public health training
• Integration into guidelines, policy documents, and systematic reviews
• Text and data mining for evidence synthesis
• Sharing across institutional repositories and libraries

Authors retain copyright and grant JPMC the right to publish. You may reuse your work in future publications, institutional repositories, and academic teaching materials.

We encourage authors to highlight the CC BY 4.0 license in any reuse to ensure proper attribution and compliance.

• Reuse figures, tables, and excerpts in future work
• Share the final PDF on personal or institutional sites
• Distribute copies for teaching, training, and policy outreach

Users must provide appropriate credit, link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This protects authorship while enabling wide reuse.

Attribution should include the article title, author names, journal name, and DOI to ensure accurate citation tracking.

If your manuscript includes third-party material, you must obtain reuse permissions and clearly label content not covered by the CC BY 4.0 license.

Authors are responsible for securing permissions for any copyrighted images, datasets, or scales, and for providing appropriate acknowledgments.

• Obtain written permission for copyrighted figures or tables
• Provide proper credit lines in captions
• Avoid reuse of materials with incompatible licenses

CC BY 4.0 meets open access requirements from major funders and institutions. If your sponsor has a specific mandate, contact the editorial office for support.

Publishing under CC BY 4.0 helps maximize public access to preventive medicine research while maintaining proper attribution.

• Use figures in public health training materials with citation
• Translate findings for community education with attribution
• Incorporate methods into practice guidelines or policy briefs
• Share datasets or protocols as part of open science initiatives

If you are uncertain about licensing terms or third-party permissions, reach out to the editorial office before submission.

Clear licensing helps your work travel further and increases the likelihood that prevention findings are used in practice.

Recommended attribution includes article title, author names, journal name, year, and DOI, followed by the CC BY 4.0 license statement.

• Provide full citation details with DOI
• Link to the CC BY 4.0 license
• Indicate any modifications or adaptations
• Confirm third-party permissions where needed

When reusing figures or tables, ensure captions include proper credit lines to maintain legal and ethical compliance. This protects authorship and supports responsible reuse across educational and policy settings.

JPMC supports authors, editors, and reviewers with timely guidance on scope, policies, and workflows. If you need clarification on requirements, data statements, or review timelines, contact the editorial office at [email protected]. We can provide templates, examples, and best-practice recommendations to help you move forward confidently. Our responses typically include next steps, resource links, and a clear point of contact. Early communication helps avoid delays, ensures consistent compliance, and improves the overall publication experience.