A preprint is a paper that is made available publicly via a community preprint server prior to (or simultaneous with) submission to a journal. Journal of Practical Emergency Medicine adhere to the principles of COPE’s recommendations regarding best practices for preprints.

Journal of Practical Emergency Medicine will consider for review each article which previously or simultaneously is available as preprints. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Authors may also post the final published version of the article immediately after publication.

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.