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With scientific research becoming increasingly specialized, it can be difficult for journals to find experts to carry out peer review. Asking authors to suggest their own reviewers can therefore be mutually beneficial: journals save time and resources searching for an appropriate reviewer, and the author can support this process by providing contacts from their network.

Procedures for the submission and publication of supplementary data, or supplementary information (SI) may differ from publisher to publisher. 

Part of a series on navigating peer review, this article explains different aspects of making your initial submission.

Is it possible to make changes to an article once it's been submitted to a journal? Not really. Authorship is also very hard to change.

A journal’s ‘house style’ is the formatting of its published articles, such as the font size and style, headings used, reference style, etc. The house style can also dictate aspects of the paper such as word limits (for the entire paper or specific sections), as well as the number of figures and graphs that can be included and the file formats of these display elements.

Before submitting your manuscript to an academic journal, it is important to format it according to the journal’s guidelines. This article discusses things to do before you begin the actual formatting.

Typically, academic authors tend to submit their articles to journals via online automated systems and then sit back and wait.

A cover letter is a brief letter that accompanies your submission to a journal, and gives you the opportunity to communicate directly with the journal’s editor. This article discusses how journal editors view cover letters, and therefore, how you can write a cover letter to get your submission noticed by the editor.

Getting your paper published can be a long and arduous process. However, you can make sure that your paper is in great shape in order to help accelerate the publication process as much as possible. Here, we will be discussing a number of steps that you can take to ensure that your submission is received well and moves through the review process smoothly.

Getting a response from a journal you have submitted your paper to can be a tense moment: the decision to accept, reject, or revise is a major step in the publication process. Much of the feedback received at this step will be about the scientific content of your paper.

A presubmission inquiry is a quick and easy way to gauge the likelihood of your paper being sent out for review if you choose to make a formal submission to an academic journal. 

The cover letter provides an additional means to tell the journal and its editors why they should consider your article. It is therefore essential that you provide a concise summary of what your research adds, and how it will contribute to the journal, in your cover letter. This article provides tips on writing an effective cover letter along with a template.

Module 11 will help you decide when your article is ready to submit. It provides tips and checklists for writing a Cover Letter, and instructs you on common mistakes that you need to avoid.

Tune in to our webinar module to learn more.

Now you have written your article, received feedback from colleagues, and carried out editing, it is almost ready for submission. However, there are still several important factors to consider ahead of submission. In this article we will cover several key things you need to do and check.

Experts with Hindawi share suggestions on how research authors can increase their chances of publication.

Many necessary elements go into the creation and composition of quality scientific articles. Here is an expanded checklist with 15 actionable items that will help you submit a quality article to your target journal.

A hidden key to success in academic publishing is learning how to understand and follow a journal’s Information for Authors (IFA). This article offers you a handful of very practical tips about following your target journal’s IFA.

Researching and then writing and submitting your research papers present a challenge at every turn. This article discusses common mistakes, collected into a few categories, which quickly lead to a manuscript’s rejection.

This webinar, in the form of a panel discussion, provides insights and tips for avoiding article rejection by a journal.

In this webinar, hear our expert panel share strategies on how you can get published in high-impact journals.