Author instructions are not interchangeable. This pilot identifies the requirement that most changes the submission package for six journals, then shows the official source, evidence status, and date checked.
This is a maintained pilot, not a complete directory. Always recheck the live publisher instructions before submission.
Use the observatory to spot the submission-specific delta.Then use the full guide for context and the publisher page as the final administrative source of truth.
Explore the pilot
Search by journal, publisher, field, or requirement. The requirement text summarizes the cited publisher page; the type labels are Manusights classifications added for comparison.
American Physical Society
Prepare the PRX nontechnical Popular Summary and provide the research-data availability details required by Physical Review journals.
Checked against the PRX information-for-authors page.
Wiley
Include a data availability statement; the journal says it will cover Dryad archiving charges for published papers when authors use Dryad.
Checked against the journal author-guidelines page.
Springer Nature
Primary research manuscripts cannot use a presubmission enquiry; choose the correct content type and follow its separate formatting instructions.
Checked against the journal submission-guidelines collection.
Association for Computing Machinery
The submission must be a survey or tutorial with an original organizing structure rather than a chronological literature catalog; use ACM's review-submission format.
The official author-guidelines page was checked, but automated access was incomplete; verify the live page again before submission.
Elsevier
Choose the correct disciplinary section and confirm that the work fits Heliyon's scientific scope; arts humanities and law are routed elsewhere.
Checked against the official journal page and its disciplinary routing.
Elsevier
Submit 3–5 highlights of no more than 85 characters each and a required data availability statement under Elsevier's Option C instructions.
Checked against the journal Guide for Authors.
Evidence contract
The value is not the row count. It is the visible chain from an author’s decision to the publisher evidence behind it. We publish the uncertainty when a source cannot be fully accessed.
We record the journal or publisher page that governs the requirement, not a third-party summary.
We isolate the instruction that changes what an author prepares, selects, declares, or submits.
Every record carries its source, review date, evidence status, and canonical Manusights guide.
What this can answer
Surface a popular summary, highlights file, data statement, or journal-specific structure before the upload begins.
Catch content-type, disciplinary-section, or presubmission restrictions that a generic checklist misses.
Go directly to the current publisher page instead of relying on an undated blog or a sibling journal’s rules.
Continue the workflow
Once the administrative requirements are clear, use the Free Readiness Scan to find evidence, fit, and presentation risks that can still stop the paper before peer review.