Articles can only be withdrawn before their acceptance, except in cases that contain errors or have been accidentally submitted twice.
Occasionally, articles may represent infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or the like.
Articles that include errors that are duplicates of or very similar to other published article(s), or are determined to violate the journals' publishing ethics guidelines in the editors' view, may be withdrawn.

Withdrawal Steps

• Pre-Review: is a period at which the author(s) submit(s) their article before sending it to the reviewer. The author(s) can withdraw their papers at this step without paying any charges and/or posing compelling reasons.
• Peer-Review: is a period at which the manuscript is entirely submitted to the website and is included in the review process. The authors must have compelling reasons and pay 200 USD/15 Million Rial as the withdrawal penalty.
• After Acceptance:  Articles can only be withdrawn before their acceptance, except in cases that contain errors or have been accidentally submitted twice. If the author does not accept this rule, he must pay the entire APC of JLMS.
• Post-Publication: when a paper is published (online and/or hard copy). Withdrawing at this step is not possible at all.

For this purpose, a withdrawal letter must be e-mailed to the editorial office indicating the decision to withdraw and explaining the reason for withdrawal signed by the corresponding author and the submitting individual's signature.