Now you’ve identified a journal to submit to, there are a few things you should be familiar with before you submit.
Make sure you are submitting to the most suitable journal - Aims and scope
Understand the cost - Article Processing Charges (APC)
Make sure your manuscript is accurate and readable - Language editing services
Ready to submit
To give your manuscript the best chance of publication, follow these policies and formatting guidelines.
General formatting rules for all article types - Preparing your manuscript
Make sure your submission is complete - Submission checklist
Understand the Copyright and license agreement - Ethical standards
Who decides whether my work will be accepted? - Peer-review policy
Submit and promote
Please note that manuscript can only be submitted by an author of the manuscript and may not be submitted by a third party.
After acceptance, we provide support so your article gains maximum impact in the scientific community and beyond.
Instructions and help for the electronic submission and peer-review system NESTOR - Instructions for Nestor
Accepted articles will be available within 48h online on the main website - S&S Accepted Manuscripts
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1. General
1.1 Conditions of acceptance of a submission
Submission of a manuscript implies that the work has not been published and is not submitted for publication anywhere else. Publication must be approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form in any language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. Authors should accept Article Processing Charges (APC is free in 2021). （For immediate submission, please submit your article to editorial office email address sands@edpsciences.org.） For ethics in publishing consult COPE. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service Similarity Check.
Authors are invited to comply with the "Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals", which were established and made available by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) at: http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/, polices established by the Council of Science Editors (CSE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and others.
1.2 Authorship
Especially the ICMJE recommends that all those designated as authors meet all of the criteria they describe. The list of criteria is available at http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/. Those contributors who do not meet all of the criteria shall be acknowledged.
1.3 Conflict of interest
Authors must disclose whether or not they have a financial relationship with the organization that sponsored the research. They should also state that they have full control of all primary data and that they agree to allow the journal to review their data if requested. Especially publications in Life Sciences and Medicine are invited to be accompanied by the "Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Form" at the initial submission.
Any additional conflict of interest, on personal or any other level must also be disclosed. The author is advised to fill out the Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Form, and finishing by Generate Disclosure Statement". This statement shall be reproduced in the article manuscript.
