Policies
Licences
Paperwright is built on open-source work. These are the parts it runs on its servers or in your browser, who made them, and the licence each is used under.
| Component | By | What it does here | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| citeproc-js 2.4.63 | Frank Bennett | Sets citations and reference lists in a journal's style | CPAL-1.0 |
| Citation Style Language styles and locales | the CSL project | APA, Vancouver, Nature and the other styles | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Liberation Sans 2.1.5 | Red Hat, with Google's Arimo | The type figures are set in | SIL OFL 1.1 |
| resvg-js | the resvg and resvg-js authors | Figures as PNG at print resolution | MPL-2.0 |
| Next.js, React | Vercel, Meta | The site and the Studio | MIT |
| TipTap, ProseMirror | the Tiptap team, Marijn Haverbeke | The section editor | MIT |
| KaTeX | Khan Academy | Maths, as it is typed | MIT |
| Inter, Newsreader | Rasmus Andersson, Production Type | The site's type | SIL OFL 1.1 |
| zod | Colin McDonnell | Checking every document and request | MIT |
| docx, fflate | Dolan Miu, Arjun Barrett | Word files and archives | MIT |
| jpeg-js | Eugene Ware and the jpeg-js authors | Photographs turned upright | BSD-3-Clause |
| Vercel Blob SDK | Vercel | Keeping your pictures, privately | Apache-2.0 |
citeproc-js
Paperwright uses citeproc-js, unmodified, under the Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0 (CPAL-1.0), elected from its dual licence. The Source Code version of the Covered Code is available under the terms of that licence: version 2.4.63, as published on npm, at registry.npmjs.org/citeproc/-/citeproc-2.4.63.tgz, and its project at github.com/Juris-M/citeproc-js. The licence's text is at opensource.org/license/cpal-1-0.
Citation styles
The citation styles and locales come from the Citation Style Language project's repositories and are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0; each file keeps its authors and licence.
Reporting guidelines
The CONSORT 2025 checklist (Hopewell et al., BMJ 2025;388:e081123) and the PRISMA 2020 checklists (Page et al., BMJ 2021;372:n71) are quoted unchanged under CC BY 4.0. Their authors don't endorse Paperwright.
Fonts
Figures are set in Liberation Sans, whose metrics match Arial's, so a figure measures the same wherever it is opened. It is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, as are Inter and Newsreader.
Colours
Charts use the colour-blind-safe palette of Masataka Okabe and Kei Ito, Color Universal Design.