Before final submission, authors must ensure that their manuscript complies with the following ethical and legal standards:

1. Copyright Compliance:
   Authors must have full rights to use any third-party content (e.g., figures, images, datasets). Written permission must be obtained where required, and appropriate credit must be given.
2. Originality & Plagiarism:
   Submitted work must be original and not under consideration elsewhere. All sources must be properly cited. Manuscripts are screened for plagiarism using standard software
3. Ethical Approval:
   Studies involving human or animal subjects must include a statement confirming approval from an appropriate ethics committee and adherence to relevant ethical guidelines.
4. Authorship & Contribution:
   All listed authors must have made significant contributions to the research and have approved the final version of the manuscript.
5. Conflicts of Interest:
   Authors must disclose any financial or non-financial conflicts of interest that could influence the results or interpretation of their work.
6. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
   Authors are responsible for ensuring that their work does not infringe upon any existing intellectual property rights. If any part of the work is protected under patent or similar rights, this must be disclosed at submission.
7. Open Access Policy:
   Vita Scientia is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal. All articles are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. Readers may access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full text of articles without requesting prior permission from the publisher or the authors, provided that the original work is properly cited.
   The journal does not impose any embargo period. All published content is available immediately upon publication in accordance with the principles of open-access scholarly publishing.
8. Copyright & Licensing:
   Authors retain the copyright of their published work.
   All articles published in Vita Scientia are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License. This license permits anyone to copy, distribute, display, reproduce, adapt, and build upon the published work for any lawful purpose, including commercial use, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), the journal, and the source, and a link to the license is provided.
   License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
9. Repository (Self-Archiving) Policy:
   Vita Scientia supports the broad dissemination of scholarly research and allows authors to deposit their manuscripts in institutional, disciplinary, or other repositories of their choice.
   The journal permits the following:
   • Preprint (Submitted Version): Authors may deposit the submitted manuscript in any repository at any time.
   • Accepted Manuscript (Author Accepted Manuscript): Authors may deposit the accepted manuscript immediately after acceptance.
   • Published Version (Version of Record): Authors may deposit the final published version immediately after publication, provided that the full citation, DOI, and a link to the journal's official website are included.
   
10. Embargo Period:
    None. The journal does not impose an embargo on the self-archiving of any version of the manuscript.

For any concerns regarding copyright, ethics, or intellectual property prior to submission, please contact us at: editor@vitascientia.net