Copyright Policy

All articles published in the Pakistan Journal of Botany (PJB) are copyrighted by the Pakistan Botanical Society (PBS). Upon acceptance, authors transfer copyright to PBS. This allows PBS to protect the integrity of the work and to distribute it through Portico and other archival services.

Authors retain the right to:

• Share a preprint version of the manuscript at any time.
• Post the accepted author manuscript (post-print) on personal or institutional repositories after a 12-month embargo.
• Use the article in teaching, lectures, or internal reports with appropriate citation.
• Reuse figures and tables in their own future works with full citation of the original.

Open Access & Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Articles published in PJB are made freely available online under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Under this license:

• Share — Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
• Adapt — Remix, transform, and build upon the material.
• Attribution required — Appropriate credit must be given, a link to the license provided, and any changes indicated.
• Non-Commercial — The material may not be used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from PBS.

How to Cite

Authors and readers citing articles from PJB should follow this format:

Archiving & Digital Preservation

In accordance with international best practices for scholarly publishing, PJB maintains a clear plan for long-term electronic backup and preservation of all published articles. Our archiving strategy ensures:

• Portico — Historical and current issues are being submitted to Portico for permanent dark archiving. Portico triggers access to preserved content when a journal ceases publication, is no longer available online, or experiences a catastrophic failure.
• On-site backup — All article PDFs and metadata are maintained on secure servers with regular backups.
• Continuous availability — Published articles remain openly accessible on this website for as long as the journal is active.

For enquiries about archiving and preservation, contact pakjbot@pakbs.org.

Permissions & Reprints

For permission to reproduce, translate, or use PJB content for commercial purposes, please contact the editorial office:

Plagiarism Policy

PJB has a strict zero-tolerance policy for plagiarism. All submitted manuscripts are screened using plagiarism detection software prior to peer review. Manuscripts found to contain plagiarized material will be rejected immediately, and authors may be reported to their institutions.

Any post-publication discovery of plagiarism will result in retraction of the article in accordance with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines.