Copyright

After the publication decision is made and accepted, the "Copyright Agreement Form" should be attached to the submissions. The form can also be downloaded from the journal's article submission system. The Copyright Agreement Form must be signed by all contributing authors and a scanned version of this wet-signed document must be submitted.

The copyright of the published article belongs to its author under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. The authors agree the transfer the commercial rights to the Turkish Spine Society, if the article is accepted for publication.

By citing the author and the journal at the same time, without any profit-making motive, and only for educational purposes, the readers can copy the article without the permission of the copyright holder.

Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery is an open access publication, and the journal’s publication model is based on Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) declaration. All published content is available online, free of charge at https://jtss.org/. The journal’s content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License which permits third parties to share the content for non-commerical purposes by giving the apropriate credit to the original work.