For authors
From acceptance to publication in journals
You've submitted your manuscript, it's gone through peer review, it's been revised and now it's been accepted for publication. Congratulations! Once you've taken some time to celebrate, you'll be ready to start thinking about what happens next. How does your paper get from the document that was accepted to a published article?
This is generally known as the production process and we're going to cover the main stages in this guide. The specifics of the process will vary from publisher to publisher and journal to journal, so make sure to read any information that you receive along with your acceptance email carefully. That should give you a clear idea of what is expected of you and what you can expect from the journal.
Getting permission to reuse contentIf you have included anything in your article that you did not create yourself, you may need to obtain permission to publish it in a journal. |
CopyeditingCopyediting will help to bring the formatting and language of your manuscript into line with the journal’s house style. |
Typesetting and proofreadingThe process of formatting your manuscript to how it will appear when published in the journal and the final check of the article before it’s sent off to be published. |
Open AccessOpen Access (OA) is a very broad term and it encompasses a lot of different ways of publishing. We have a brief explanation of some of the main routes to OA here. |
LicencesPublishers require authors to sign a copyright licence of some sort – both to protect the author’s work and to give the publisher the legal right to publish the article. But which licence are you supposed to sign? |