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Article Withdrawal Process

• A retraction note entitled “Retraction: [article title]” signed by
the authors and/or the editor is published in the paginated part of
a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list.
• In the electronic version, a link is made to the original article.
• The original article is retained unchanged saving for a
watermark on the pdf. file version on each page to indicate that
it is “retracted”.

Wager E, Barbour V, Yentis S, Kleinert S. Retraction Guidelines.
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Sep 2009. Available from:
http://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf

Article Withdrawal Regulations
• Withdrawal is an action that takes the manuscript out of the
review process and places it back into the author's dashboard.
Generally, we do not suggest the article withdrawal, since it
wastes valuable manuscript processing time, cost and works
spent by the publisher.

• Article withdrawal is applied to submitted papers either within
peer review process or accepted for publication that is for the
moment only available in a pre-publication form (“Early Release
or Ahead of Print”). These sometimes contain errors or are
articles that may have already been published and then
mistakenly resubmitted for publication elsewhere. Articles may
also be retracted to allow authors to correct any errors that had
not been identified before submission.