Preprint Policy

CSRP permits authors to deposit preprints of their original research papers (and only this article type) on recognized community servers such as arXiv, bioRxiv, or PeerJ Preprint either before or at the same time they submit to a CSRP journal; authors keep the copyright in these preprints.

In the cover letter, authors must notify the editors that a preprint exists and supply any accession numbers or DOIs. Revised versions generated during peer review and the final accepted manuscript must not be uploaded to a preprint server.

After the paper is published, authors are encouraged to add a link from the preprint record to the journal website so readers can locate and cite the definitive version.