For Authors - Prepare your submission

To submit an article to the journal, the next process should be followed:

Manuscripts

Manuscripts should be prepared in LaTeX. Once an article is accepted for publication, the final version must be built with the journal style files available further down this page.

Submission to a Open Archive

Prior to submission to the journal, the manuscript must be published on arXiv (alternatively HAL) using a valid Open Access license :

When the article is submitted on arXiv, one of the Creative Commons (CC) licenses has to be selected unless required by employers or funding agencies (e.g., US government agencies). Many science funders specifically require the CC-BY license.

There will be no copyright transfer to the journal: authors retain the copyright, and merely grant the journal the right to publish the article through the CC Open Access license.

Submisison to episciences platform

Once an arXiv identifier has been assigned to the manuscript, it may be submitted using the epijournal platform.

Revisions

If revisions are requested, authors should update the manuscript on arXiv, and once the updated version has been published on arXiv, use the epijournal platform to communicate this along with a detailed response to the reviewers.

Manuscript accepted

If a manuscript is accepted, the authors will be provided with the publication information (DOI, volume, acceptance date) that should be entered into the document source (using the journal's style files) prior to the final submission on arXiv. No further copy-editing will be performed by the journal.

Authors may appeal a rejection decision by Handling Editors by contacting the Managing Editors through jnsao@episciences.org

LaTeX template

Final accepted articles should be built with the following LaTeX style files:

These style files are compatible with the standard LaTeX article class and BibTeX for bibliography generation as available on arXiv. The following template files show their use for articles:

All of the files are also available as a single .zip file.