Journal formatting guides
Journal formatting and submission-package guides
Journal-specific guides for formatting requirements, manuscript files, data availability, and submission package checks.
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- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- ACS Catalysis Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- ACS Nano Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Advanced Energy Materials Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Advanced Functional Materials Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Advanced Materials Formatting Requirements Checklist
- Analytical Chemistry Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Angewandte Chemie Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Annals of Oncology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Applied Energy Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Applied Physics Letters Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Applied Sciences (Basel) Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Applied Surface Science Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Astronomy Astrophysics Formatting Requirements: A&A Guide
- Astrophysical Journal Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Bioinformatics Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Bioresource Technology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Blood Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- BMC Medicine Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- BMJ (British Medical Journal) Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- BMJ Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- BMJ Open Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Brain Formatting Requirements: The OUP Submission Package Guide
- Cancer Cell Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Cancer Research Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Carbohydrate Polymers Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Cell Data Availability Statement: What Cell Requires (2026)
- Cell Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Cell Host Microbe Formatting Requirements: Editor Expectations
- Cell Metabolism Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Cell Reports Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Cell Stem Cell Formatting Requirements: The Cell Press Package Guide
- Ceramics International Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Chemical Communications Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Chemical Engineering Journal Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Chemical Reviews Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Chemical Society Reviews Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Circulation Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Circulation Research Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Clinical Cancer Research Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Clinical Infectious Diseases Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Construction and Building Materials Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Current Biology Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Developmental Cell Formatting Requirements: The Cell Press Package Guide
- Diabetes Care Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- eLife Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Energy Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Environmental Science & Technology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- European Heart Journal Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Food Chemistry Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Frontiers in Immunology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Frontiers in Microbiology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Frontiers in Plant Science Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Fuel Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Gastroenterology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Genome Biology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Gut Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Hepatology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- IEEE Access Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Immunity Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- International Journal of Biological Macromolecules Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- JACC Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- JACS Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- JAMA Cardiology Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- JAMA Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- JAMA Oncology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- JCI Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- JCI Insight Formatting Requirements: Word Limits, Figures, References (2026)
- JCO Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Journal of Alloys and Compounds Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Journal of Applied Physics Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Journal of Hazardous Materials Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Journal of Immunology Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Journal of Neuroscience Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Journal of Physical Chemistry C Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Journal of Power Sources Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Lancet Infectious Diseases Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Lancet Neurology Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Lancet Oncology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Materials Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- MNRAS Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Molecular Cell Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Molecular Psychiatry Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Molecules Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Nano Letters Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Nature Chemical Biology Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Nature Data Availability Statement: What Nature Requires (2026)
- Nature Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Nature Genetics Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Nature Immunology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Nature Medicine Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Nature Methods Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Nature Neuroscience Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Nature Reviews Cancer Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- NEJM Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Neuron Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Nucleic Acids Research Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Nutrients Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Physical Review B Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Physical Review D Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Physical Review Letters Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- PLOS Medicine Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- PLOS ONE Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- PNAS Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- PNAS Nexus Formatting Requirements: Word Limits, Figures, References (2026)
- Remote Sensing Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- RSC Advances Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- RSER Formatting Requirements: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Guide
- Science Advances Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Science Data Availability Statement: What Science Requires (2026)
- Science Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Science of the Total Environment Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Science Translational Medicine Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
- Scientific Reports Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Sensors Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Small Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Sustainability (MDPI) Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- The EMBO Journal Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Trends in Molecular Medicine Formatting Requirements: Complete Author Guide
- Water Research Formatting Requirements: The Submission Package Guide
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These collection links connect submission, selection, review-time, rejection-risk, and manuscript-preparation pages without relying on the interactive blog index.
- Journal submission guidesBroad journal-specific submission readiness and upload guidance.
- Pre-submission review guidesReadiness, novelty, scope-fit, and manuscript-review decisions.
- Journal selection guidesChoosing a realistic target journal before submission.
- Desk rejection guidesEditor-screen and early rejection risk by journal or field.
- Journal review time guidesFirst-decision timing, review duration, and delay risks.
- Journal status guidesUnder review, with editor, under consideration, and related statuses.
- Journal policy and metricsAI policies, formatting, APCs, acceptance rates, and journal metrics.
- Comparison guidesService, tool, and journal-vs-journal decision pages.
- Manuscript preparation guidesCover letters, abstracts, highlights, figures, and submission packages.