Pre-Publication Commitments
Many Nature journals allow researchers to seek informal feedback from editors before submitting the full manuscript. This service aims to save time – if the editors feel that it is not suitable, you can submit the manuscript to another journal without delay. If you wish to use the pre-submission inquiry service, please use the online submission system of your chosen journal to submit a paragraph explaining the significance of your manuscript, along with a summary paragraph and a list of related citations so that the editors can assess the manuscript against other relevant works. The editors will quickly invite you either to submit the full manuscript (which does not imply any commitment to publish) or will indicate that it is not suitable for the journal. If you receive a negative response, please do not reply. If you remain convinced of the importance of your manuscript despite the editors’ reservations, you may submit the full manuscript using the online submission system of the journal. After that, the editors can provide a more complete evaluation of your work. Please note that not all Nature journals offer a pre-submission inquiry service.
Submitting the Initial Manuscript
When you are ready to submit the manuscript, please use the online submission system for the relevant journal. When the journal receives your manuscript, it will be assigned a number and an editor, who will read the manuscript and seek informal advice from scientific advisors and editorial colleagues, comparing your submission with recently published papers in the field. If the manuscript appears new and interesting, and the work described has immediate and profound implications, the editor will send it for review by independent specialists, usually two or three. However, because journals can only publish a limited number of manuscripts in the relevant field or area, many manuscripts must be rejected without review at first glance, even though they may describe strong scientific findings.
Transferring Manuscripts between Nature Journals
In some cases, an editor may be unable to recommend publication, but may suggest that the manuscript is more suitable for one of the other Nature journals. If you would like to resubmit your manuscript to the suggested journal, you can simply follow the link provided by the editor to transfer the manuscript and reviewer comments to the new journal. This process is entirely within your control: you can choose not to use this service and instead submit your manuscript to any other journal in Nature or nature research, whether including reviewer comments or not if you wish, using the regular online submission service of the journal. For more information, please refer to the manuscript transfer page.
Theoretical Review
The corresponding author is notified when the editor decides to send a manuscript for review. Editors choose reviewers for their independence, ability to assess the technical aspects of the paper comprehensively and fairly, whether they are currently or recently evaluating related submissions, and whether they can review the manuscript within the short required timeframe.
You may suggest reviewers for your manuscript (including title details), provided they are independent scientists. Such suggestions are often helpful, though not always followed. The editors will adhere to your requests to exclude a limited number of named scientists as reviewers. Decisions and Revisions
Decisions and Revisions
If the editor invites you to revise your manuscript, it should include with the returned version a new cover letter that includes a point-by-point response to the reviewers’ and editors’ comments, explaining how you have modified the manuscript based on these comments, and an estimate of the length of the revised version in its new form with figures/tables. The decision letter will specify the deadline, and the revisions returned during this period will retain their original submission date.
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additional supplementary information with the electronic version of your article if editors and reviewers deem it necessary for the conclusions of the article (for example, a large data table or model outcome) but which may generate more specialized interest than the rest of the article. Editors encourage authors whose articles describe methods to provide a summary of the method for the printed version and include full details and protocols online. Authors are also encouraged to publish the complete protocol on the Nature Protocols’ Protocol Exchange platform, which, in addition to a database of protocols, provides an online forum for readers in the field to add comments, suggestions, and improvements on published protocols. After Acceptance
After Acceptance
The accepted manuscript is prepared for publication by copy editors (also known as sub-editors), who enhance it so that the text and figures are readable and clear to those outside the immediate field; select keywords to increase visibility in online searches as well as suitability for indexing services; and ensure that manuscripts conform to house style. Editors are happy to advise authors whose first language is not English, and they will edit those articles with particular care. After Publication
All articles are published in the printed edition and in PDF and HTML format in the electronic edition of the journal in full. Several linking and navigation services are provided with the electronic version (HTML) for all articles published by Nature journals.
All articles and corresponding author contact details are included in our press release service, meaning your work is brought to the attention of all the major media organizations in the world, which may choose to highlight the work in newspaper reports and other media. Some articles are summarized and highlighted in Nature and Nature Portfolio and Nature’s publications on specific topics.
Nature Portfolio journals do not ask authors for copyright, but request you to sign an exclusive publication license. This allows you to archive the accepted version of the manuscript six months after publication on your own sites, your institution’s site, and your funder’s site. Disputes with Decisions
Disputes with Decisions
If a journal’s editors are unable to provide publication of the manuscript and did not invite resubmission, we strongly advise you to submit your manuscript for publication elsewhere. However, if you believe that the editors or reviewers have seriously misunderstood the manuscript, you may write a letter to the editors, outlining the scientific reasons why you believe the decision was incorrect. Please bear in mind that the editors prioritize newly submitted manuscripts and those planned for resubmission, so it may take several weeks before a response is received to dissenting letters. During this time, you should not submit the manuscript elsewhere. To publish your findings without unnecessary delay, we advise you to submit your manuscript to another journal if it has been rejected, rather than spend time corresponding with the editors of the journal that rejected the manuscript.
About Online Prepublication
Nature journals offer online prepublication (AOP). We believe that AOP is the best and fastest way to disseminate high-quality, peer-reviewed research for the benefit of readers and authors. Articles that are published online as AOP are considered final: they do not change before appearing in the printed edition and can be cited officially once they appear on the journal’s AOP site. Additionally, Nature publishes some articles each week through an accelerated article preview (AAP) workflow. For these articles, we upload the accepted manuscript to our site as an AAP PDF file, without editing text or figures or tables, but with some preliminary formatting. AAP articles are clearly marked with a watermark on each page of the online PDF file.
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What is the AOP table for journals?
Nature publishes many AOP articles, but not all, on Mondays and Wednesdays.
For Nature’s monthly journals that publish fundamental research, new articles are uploaded to the AOP section on their websites once a week. Sometimes, an article may be uploaded on other days.
The Nature Reviews monthly journals also upload new articles to the AOP section on their websites once a week.
FAQ
Q: Which articles are published AOP?
A: Original research AOP is published – these are articles and letters, and for the Nature journals that publish them, brief communications. News and opinions related to the article or letter may be published or when papers are published in the printed/electronic edition of the journal. Nature sometimes publishes other types of AOP articles, such as news and comments.
Q: Is the AOP version of the article final?
A: Yes. The final version of the article is only published in AOP, exactly as it will be published in the printed edition. The article is complete in every way except that instead of having a volume/issue/page number, it has a digital object identifier (DOI). This means that the article can be referenced once it appears on the AOP site using the digital object identifier. Nature also publishes some articles each week through the accelerated article preview (AAP) workflow, where the accepted version of the article is uploaded as a PDF file on our site without editing the text, figures, or tables, but with some preliminary formatting. AAP articles are clearly identified by having a watermark on every page of the PDF file online.
Q: What is a digital object identifier?
A: A digital object identifier is an international standard identifier for intellectual property entities in the form of a mix of numbers and letters. For Nature Portfolio journals, a digital object identifier is assigned to the editorial content item, providing a unique and permanent identifier for that item. The digital object identifier system is managed by the international DOI foundation, a nonprofit organization. CrossRef, another nonprofit organization, uses the digital object identifier as a standard to link publishers, enabling linking between multiple publishers, and maintains the system for searching digital object identifiers. Nature Portfolio is a member of CrossRef.
Q: Can I use the digital object identifier in citation references?
A: Yes, instead of giving the volume and page number, you can provide the digital object identifier of the article at the end of the citation. For example, Nature articles should be cited as follows:
Author(s) Nature advance online publication, day month year (DOI 10.1038/natureXXX).
After publication in the printed edition, you should provide the digital object identifier in addition to the printed citation, to allow readers to find the article in the printed edition as well as online. For example:
Author(s) Nature volume, page (year); advance online publication, day month year (DOI 10.1038/natureXXX).
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Q: How can I use a digital object identifier to find an article?
A: There are two ways: Digital object identifiers from other articles can be included in the encoded string for the citation section in the references. In Nature journals, these appear as “| Article |” in the citation sections. Clicking on | Article | opens another browser window that leads to the landing page (often an abstract) of another article. Depending on the article’s source, this page may be on the Nature Portfolio site or another publisher’s site. This service is powered by CrossRef. A digital object identifier can also be entered directly into the browser. For example, for the digital object identifier 10.1038/ng571, typing http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng571 leads to the article’s landing page.
Q: What is the official publication date?
A: Many journals, and most abstracting and indexing services (including Medline and Thomson-Reuters), cite the issue date as the publication date. Publishers usually mention both the “online publication date” and the “print publication date.” Nature Portfolio publishes both dates for our papers, hoping they will be recognized by the scientific communities, as well as by abstracting and indexing services. We strive to include the online publication date and print citation within the reference lists for Nature Portfolio papers, since the article is published online before it is published in print. Given the future use of the digital object identifier to locate the online publication, we encourage authors to use digital object identifiers in reference citations.
Q: Do I need to subscribe to read AOP articles?
A: Yes. AOP articles are the same as the articles in the print issue.
Source: https://www.nature.com/nature-research/for-authors/publish
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