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Authors keep the right to reuse their article in later work, such as books, theses, teaching material and presentations, and to share it on personal websites, academic networks and in repositories.

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• Share: copy and redistribute the article in any medium or format.
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• the authors' names and the article title
• the journal name, Journal of Advanced Forensic Sciences, with the year, volume and issue
• the DOI or URL of the article
• the license, CC BY 4.0, with a link to it
• a statement of any changes made to the original

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