Preprints are papers that have been made publicly available by the author(s) prior to undergoing peer review. Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine adhere to the principles of COPE’s recommendations regarding best practices for preprints. Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine does not consider preprints as prior publication and manuscripts previously distributed as preprints will be considered for publication. The authors are also allowed to distribute their version of the manuscript (prepared before undergoing peer review) at any time during the review process. The authors should inform the journal if a preprint is available at any time before the publication of the submitted manuscript. Preprints may be cited in the submitted manuscripts and authors may share their preprints under creative commons licenses.

If the manuscript is accepted and published by the journal, the authors are required to update the preprint record and insert a link to the published article.

Authors should not assign copyright during the preprint process; authors should retain copyright in their work when posting to a preprint server.

Preferably, authors should only grant “no re-use” licenses to their preprints. However, we will consider for publication submissions that have previously been assigned CC-BY (-NC/-NC-ND) as preprints.

We encourage researchers and academics who reference preprints (like other peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources) to continue to cite these sources accurately as shown below:

• Chele D, Sirbu CA, Mitrică M, Toma M, Vasiliu O, Sirbu AM, et al.. Metformin’s Effects on Cognitive Function from Biovariance Perspective. Preprint at https://www.preprints.org/frontend/manuscript/69089ad0230411fc3bf5c9e423d0b936/download_pub  (2024).

If a preprint is assigned a DOI, we will assign a new DOI to the accepted article and can optionally link to the preprint.