Publication Policy
- Peer-review by at least two independent referees;
- Copy-editing (optional);
- Immediate Open Access publication, financed by moderate service charges;
- Supplementary material at no extra costs (data sets, animated visualisation);
- Liberal copyright agreement;
- Article URLs analogous to the classical citation (eCitation concept);
- Distribution of article data to scientific databases and indices;
- Article alert service for individuals;
- Permanent archiving via e-archives and copyright libraries;
- Paper copies printed on demand.
General aspects concerning the role of authors, editors and referees are summarized under General Obligations for Authors, General Obligations for Editors and General Obligations for Referees.
Copernicus Publications reserves the right to replace a PDF file if purely technical corrections are necessary (e.g. corrupt file or incorrect bibliographical entry). Under no circumstances will there be any change of the contents.
