Copyright & Archive Policy
Upon submission, the author (s) should sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement, and agree to transfer all copyrights and related financial rights to the Editorial Office of Journal of China Agricultural University. The Editorial Office of JCAU has the right to use this paper in part or in full, including but not limited to the right of compilation, distribution, reproduction, translation, online publication and worldwide information dissemination; the right of permission for domestic and foreign literature retrieval systems and databases to include and use the paper; right to publish and use the paper using existing and future format, media, languages and in ways that do not violate the current and future laws of the People’s Republic of China. Upon publication of the paper, the Editorial Office of JCAU will pay a one-off remuneration to the author(s), covering the payment of the copyright transfer of the paper.
The author(s) should agree to the open access policy of this journal. Authors and third-party re-users can reproduce and disseminate this article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License.
The hard and soft copies of all articles published by this journal since 1996 have been kept in the editorial office for archiving. In order to ensure data security, all information has also been backed up in the editorial office. In addition to archiving on the journal's official website, full-text articles can also be downloaded from databases including CNKI, Wanfang and Weipu databases.
The authors are allowed for authors to deposit all versions of their articles in an institutional or other repository of authors' choice. However, it is necessary to indicate the articles' publishing information in the metadata in the institutional or other repository and use that as a recommended way of citation.
Mian Long-Term Preservation and Archiving Service(s)
National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China
WanFang Database
National Library of China
China National Knowledge Infrastructure，CNKI
Chinese Science Citation Database, CSCD
Archival Library of Chinese Publications
Preprint Policy
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (a preprint) available through various channels. Making an Author’s Original Version does not prevent submission to the journal. If your paper is accepted, you should update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI in time.
Self-Archiving Policy
You may self-archive versions of your work on your own webpages, institutional webpages, and in other repositories.
