Journal submission guides

Journal-specific submission guides

Use these guides to check journal fit, first-file requirements, editor-screen risks, and practical next steps before submitting.

Put the guidance to work

Turn a journal shortlist into a submission-ready package

Use a focused resource when you are ready to verify a rule, check the package, or pressure-test journal fit on the manuscript itself.

Find the official submission source Trace the journal or publisher page that controls a real requirement.Run the final checklist Work through fit, reporting, files, declarations, references, and accessibility.Check journal fit Compare a title and abstract with potential journal destinations.

Open submission-intelligence dataset

Compare the requirement that changes the package

The Journal Requirements Observatory pairs each featured difference with its official publisher source, evidence status, and review date. The pilot covers six journals and publishes the underlying CSV.

Explore the observatory

Current launch guides

New journal guides

These are the newest guides we are actively routing crawlers and readers toward.

Browse by discipline

Focused submission-guide collections

These discipline hubs route authors and crawlers toward journal guides that share field, evidence standard, and submission workflow.

More journal guides

Standalone submission guides

These guides cover journals that do not yet have a full cluster of adjacent Manusights pages.

Full submission-guide index

All journal submission guides

This server-rendered index gives every canonical journal submission guide a stable crawl path from the blog.

Related publishing collections

These collection links connect submission, selection, review-time, rejection-risk, and manuscript-preparation pages without relying on the interactive blog index.