1.Open access policy
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

2.License terms
The journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License [BY-NC]. So that, referring to the journal’s content:

Any article published in The Journal of Community Positive Practices (JCPP) can be freely used and shared (free access to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format), as long as it is attributed to the author(s) and the journal by citing the name of the author(s) and the name of the journal [Attribution - BY].
The authors of the articles and the journal itself allow all types of non-commercial use of the papers and, on the contrary, restrict their use for commercial purposes [Non-commercial use - NC].
Users can use, reuse and build upon the material published in the journal but only for non-commercial purposes.

3.Authors copyright and publishing rights
The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright and to retain publishing rights without restrictions.

4.Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

5.Submissions
●Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of The Journal of Community Positive Practices (JCPP) will be reviewed.
●There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
●As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere. 

For more details see submissions sections.

6.Authorship
Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:
Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data;
Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content;
Approved the version to be published;
Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.

7.Acknowledgements
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.

8.Funding
The Journal of Community Positive Practices (JCPP) requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading.  Please confirm the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

9.Declaration of conflicting interests
The Journal of Community Positive Practices (JCPP) encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests.

Peer review
Papers are reviewed by two specialists. Depending on their recommendations, the editors decide whether publish/ reject the paper or make suggestions for improvement to the author/ authors. Three decisions can be made: Acceptance (which may include minor editing); Rejection; or Resubmission. Please note that resubmitted articles are refereed again and that there is no guarantee that they will be accepted for publication. The editors have the right to make minor editorial changes to submitted papers, including the correction of grammatical mistakes, punctuation and writing, as well as modify the format of the paper, but no major changes will be performed without the approval of the author. If major changes are needed, the paper is returned to the author for him to make the necessary changes. Authors are informed by e-mail on the status of the papers sent in no more than 6 weeks from their receipt.
Papers accepted for publication are sent to authors for good press. Authors are asked to respond to the editorial board within 7 days. Authors submitting papers to the editorial board implicitly declare their publishing agreement in these conditions.
For more details see submissions sections.

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