Author name change Policy

As per policy, the PAMS wishes to ensure a smooth process to facilitate any change in author name after publication in an issue. As per policy, the authors may change their name for different genuine reasons, for example marriage, divorce, change in religion, change in gender identity, and any other personal reasons. As part of our author’s name change policy, the PAMS will seek to uphold the following guidelines.

• As name change is a deeply personal decision and it’s possible that an individual may not wish to disclose this change to a large audience. We give option to the author to update their name with or without notice of correction. Unless explicitly requested, the journal will not include correction notice in any journal’s format.

In respecting right to privacy, the journal will not inquire the reasons for the name change or ask for any legal name change document. However, the authors must confirm through signed letter that they are requesting the change on behalf of themselves.

• The journal will not request the approval of any co-authors on the paper to update the name.
• As part of any author name change request, PAMS will endeavor to make any necessary changes to all references to the author’s identity, for example, email address, pronouns, images, authorship byline or any other occurrence within the body of their paper.
• PAMS recommends using an ORCID id to authors who change their name and want to ensure that all of their prior publications are discoverable in one place.
• The journal will update the PDF and/or HTML paper versions on website. PAMS cannot control whether or when author name changes are made to other non-PAMS sites.  In this regards, if an author wishes that his work to be fully discoverable in all indexing and archiving sites under both prior and current names, than its authors responsibility to contact these indexes and databases directly.
• Unfortunately, PAMS does not have the ability to update citations in other publications for our journal papers in which a name change has been made.
• PAMS will retain an original copy of the manuscript to ensure that the requested changes have been made accurately and to be able to demonstrate what versions of the article have been published at any given point, should that be required (e.g., for legal purposes). The original version will not be made publicly available.