Journal of Open Source Software

Author use: The use of generative AI is permitted for most aspects of a JOSS submission (e.g., software creation and review, generating documentation, assisting with paper authoring), however all such use must be disclosed in an “AI usage disclosure” statement which includes: Tool use: The tools/models used (and versions) and where they were used (code, paper text, docs). The nature and scope of a…

Purely financial (such as being named on an award) and organizational (such as general supervision of a research group) contributions are not considered sufficient for co-authorship of JOSS submissions, but active project direction and other forms of non-code contributions are. The authors themselves assume responsibility for deciding who should be credited with co-authorship, and co-authors must …

An author conflict of interest (COI) arises when an author has financial, personal, or other interests that may influence their research or the interpretation of its results. In order to maintain the integrity of the work published in JOSS, we require that authors disclose any potential conflicts of interest at submission time.

Editorial Board The JOSS editorial board's members are recognized experts in the field. The full names and affiliations of the members are provided on the journal’s website (see editorial board). The individual editors' contact information are provided on that site, via their GitHub pages, and general contact information for the editorial office also on the journal’s website. Authors and Authors r…

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JOSS is a diamond/platinum open access journal. Copyright of JOSS papers is retained by submitting authors and accepted papers are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Any code snippets included in JOSS papers are subject to the MIT license regardless of the license of the submitted software package under review. Any use of the JOSS logo is licensed CC BY 4.0. See t…

After submission: An Associate Editor-in-Chief will carry out an initial check of your submission, and proceed to assign a handling editor. The handling editor will assign two or more JOSS reviewers, and the review will be carried out in the JOSS reviews repository. Authors will respond to reviewer-raised issues (if any are raised) on the submission repository’s issue tracker. Reviewer and editor …

Authors are welcome to submit their papers to a preprint server (arXiv, bioRxiv, SocArXiv, PsyArXiv etc.) at any point before, during, or after the submission and review process. Submission to a preprint server is not considered a previous publication.