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European Journal of Endocrinology

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In order to publish your article we need your agreement in writing. Please take a moment to read the terms of this assignment, print out and sign the form and return it to us as quickly as possible.

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By signing this form, you (the author(s) or other copyright owner, such as your employer) agree to transfer to us (the Society of the European Journal of Endocrinology, the journal's owner) the copyright in the above article, thus giving us the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute and broadcast the above article (including the abstract) ourselves throughout the world in printed, electronic or any other medium, and in turn to authorize others (including our publisher, BioScientifica Ltd, and Reproduction Rights Organizations such as the Copyright Licensing Agency and the Copyright Clearance Center) to do the same. You agree that we may publish your article in the journal named above, and that we may sell or distribute it within the journal, on its own, or with other related material.

You confirm that all of the named authors contributed substantially to the article, and agree to take public responsibility for the validity of its content. You also confirm that all major sources of funding have been acknowledged in the text of the article and that there is either (a) no conflict of interest that could be perceived as prejudicing its impartiality, or (b) a potential conflict of interest that is fully declared within the text of the article.

You promise that the article is your own original work, has not previously been published, and is not currently under consideration by another journal. If it contains material (such as a previously published illustration) which is someone else's copyright, you promise that you have obtained the unrestricted permission of the copyright owner (please attach evidence of this) and that the material is clearly identified and acknowledged within the text. You also promise that the article does not, to the best of your knowledge, contain anything which is libellous, illegal, or infringes anyone's copyright or other rights.

We promise that we will respect your rights as the author(s). That is, we will make sure that your name(s) is/are always associated with the article and, while you do allow us to make necessary editorial changes, we will not make any substantial alteration to your article without consulting you. We will have your article reviewed by impartial referees, and will let you know the outcome as quickly as we can. If the article is accepted, we undertake to publish it as soon as we reasonably can. If it is rejected, this agreement is automatically cancelled and all the rights come back to you.

We will do everything we reasonably can to maximize the visibility of the journal, and of your article within it. We will mount your final manuscript on our website within a few days of acceptance. On final publication, we will send you an Acrobat PDF file of your article in its final published form. You are free to use it in all the ways described in the next paragraph. We will also send you an order form to enable you to buy offprints.

You remain free to use your own article for the internal educational or research purposes of your own institution or company and to use it, in whole or in part, as the basis for your own further research or spoken presentations, provided you neither sell it nor encourage others to infringe our copyright.

You promise, if you have not paid the Free Access Fee, that you will not self-archive or otherwise deposit your final accepted article on freely available institutional or other online repositories (such as PubMed Central), unless (i) the version deposited is the manuscript, as finally accepted by the journal but prior to copy-editing and page formatting; (ii) you ensure that it will not become publicly available until 12 months after publication in the journal; (iii) the manuscript made available in this way includes the journal's standard disclaimer. Conditions (i-iii) above are waived if you have paid us the Free Access Fee, in which case we will deposit the final published version of your article in PubMed Central, and you are then also free to deposit it on other free online repositories. Condition (iii) still applies if you deposit your unformatted manuscript.

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Upon acceptance, and prior to editing and typesetting, your manuscript will be made public online as an Accepted Preprint unless you tell us otherwise. Upon final publication, it will be replaced by the final edited and formatted version of your article. If you do not want your manuscript to be released in this way, please put a cross in this box. □

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