Author's Commitment and Copyright Transfer Agreement

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To the Editorial Office of Petroleum Geology & Experiment (hereafter referred to as "the Editorial Office"):

We, the undersigned authors, hereby acknowledge and accept the submission requirements of Petroleum Geology & Experiment and solemnly pledge the following:

(1) We voluntarily sign this commitment to Petroleum Geology & Experiment.

(2) We possess the full and exclusive copyright to the article submitted to the Editorial Office, which is titled "_____________________________________________________" (hereafter referred to as "the Article"). The Article contains no content that breaches laws, regulations, or academic integrity.

(3) The Article is an original work and contains no instances of plagiarism or infringement upon others' intellectual property. We have diligently checked all citations, notes, and all other materials in the Article to ensure their accuracy. Any borrowed ideas, data, or results have been duly cited.

(4) All named authors of the Article have actively contributed to its creation and share responsibility for its content's accuracy, authenticity, and reliability. Once this commitment is signed, there will be no changes to the authorship order or author affiliations.

(5) Neither our institutions nor the research project described in the Article has any confidentiality constraints. If any exist, they have been reviewed, stamped, and granted permission for public publication by our institutions.

(6) The Article has not been submitted to multiple publications simultaneously, nor has it been modified in part and submitted to other publications. The main viewpoints and content of the Article have not been previously published in any public medium, including journals and newspapers. We will not submit the Article elsewhere before receiving a decision of rejection from the Editorial Office.

(7) If the Article is published in Petroleum Geology & Experiment, we agree to transfer its worldwide copyright (including but not limited to rights of reproduction, distribution, information network dissemination, translation, and compilation) to the Editorial Office. The Editorial Office can then publish and use the Article in any media and in all languages. In addition, the Editorial Office may grant licenses for all or part of the aforementioned rights to third parties. The copyright transfer fee is encompassed within the remuneration provided by the Editorial Office.

(8) We acknowledge and agree that third parties may use the Article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license after its publication.

(9) After publication of the Article, we can use it under the following circumstances: using the Article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (e.g., non-commercial academic exchanges, presentations, lectures, etc.); patent applications; other activities approved and authorized by the Editorial Office.

(10) In line with the Copyright Law, the Editorial Office reserves the right to make minor edits and revisions to the Article.

(11) Should we breach any of these commitments, the Editorial Office can retract the published Article, issue a public reprimand about the Article and its authors within academic and journal communities, and notify pertinent institutions about potential administrative actions against the lead authors.

(12) Two copies of this document shall be prepared, one each for the authors and the Editorial Office, for future verification.

(13) This document takes effect from the date of the authors' signatures.

 

Article title: ____________________________________________________________

Signatures of all authors:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date: __________ (YYYY) __________ (MM) __________ (DD)


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