License

All articles published in Pediatrics & Nursology are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Authors retain copyright in their work. No transfer of copyright is required. On acceptance, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive licence of first publication.

Under CC BY 4.0, anyone may:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format;
• Adapt — remix, transform and build upon the material, for any purpose, including commercially.

These rights are granted on one condition: appropriate credit must be given to the original authors and to Pediatrics & Nursology, a link to the licence must be provided, and any changes made must be indicated. Credit must not be given in a way that suggests the authors endorse the subsequent use.

The licence applies to the article text, tables, figures and supplementary material, except where third-party material is reproduced under separate permission. Such items carry their own credit line, and their reuse remains subject to the rights holder's terms.

CC BY 4.0 is the licence recommended by the Budapest Open Access Initiative and required by most major research funders for open access publication.