Preprints Policy

NJRST permits authors to share preprints of manuscripts before submission to the journal.

A preprint is a version of a scholarly manuscript that is made publicly available before formal peer review and publication. Preprints may be posted on recognised preprint servers, institutional repositories, personal websites or other appropriate scholarly platforms.

Authors may submit manuscripts to NJRST that have previously been made available as preprints, provided that this is clearly disclosed at the time of submission. Authors should include the preprint DOI or URL, where available, in the submission comments to the editor.

Posting a preprint does not count as prior publication and does not prevent the manuscript from being considered by NJRST.

All submissions, including those previously posted as preprints, are subject to the journal’s normal editorial screening and peer-review process.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that the preprint does not infringe copyright, breach confidentiality, compromise ethical approval conditions, or conflict with funder, institutional or contractual requirements.

Where a manuscript based on a preprint is accepted and published by NJRST, authors are encouraged to update the preprint record with a citation and link to the published version of record. The published article should be cited as the authoritative version.

Authors may also deposit and share the accepted manuscript or published version of record in repositories, on personal websites and on other appropriate scholarly platforms, in accordance with the journal’s open access, copyright and licensing policies.

Updated: 21 May 2026