Get Scientific Feedback
<< Back to the posting process After your manuscript is posted, one of eiRxiv’s many scientific reviewers will provide constructive and supportive scientific feedback. The goal of this feedback is to celebrate your research and writing successes and provide suggestions to make your research and writing even better. The scientific reviewers’ feedback will answer questions […]
Submission Frequently Asked Questions
Check out the answers to some of the most common questions we get at eiRxiv: Is there a fee to submit with eiRxiv? No. Thanks to generous grants and donations, eiRxiv submission, posting, and feedback are completely free! If you’d like to help us continue this for future students, please consider supporting our work. Do […]
How to Submit
<< Back to Submission Guidelines Check Before You Submit Think you’re ready to submit your manuscript to eiRxiv? First, Reread our submission guidelines and your manuscript, and compare – does your manuscript meet all of our guidelines? Evaluate your manuscript using our downloadable submission checklist. If you can’t check “yes” to every question, your manuscript […]
Academic Honesty & AI Policies
<< Back to Submission Guidelines Integrity is the backbone of science. As a scientific publisher, eiRxiv therefore follows strong ethical guidelines. These ethical guidelines help us ensure the manuscripts we publish are accurate, truthful, ethically done, and gives credit where needed. We encourage you to thoroughly review our guidelines on Plagiarism, Academic Honesty, Conflicts of […]
Get Permission for Your Research
<< Back to Submission Guidelines Scientists must make sure their research is safe and permitted – both for themselves, and for any humans or animals involved in their research. At eiRxiv, we prioritize the safety of our student researchers and their community. Our safety and research permission guidelines are based on the guidelines for the […]
Develop a Research Project
<< Back to Submission Guidelines Have you ever found yourself looking at the world around you and asking questions like: Why does that happen? How does it work? What would happen if I tried this? Is there a better way to do this? How can I solve this problem? If so, then you’re thinking like […]
Topics We Accept
<< Back to Submission Guidelines Scientific manuscripts take many forms: hypothesis-driven experiments, review articles, commentaries, mathematical modeling, theory development, and more. All of these types of manuscripts can meaningfully contribute to scientific knowledge. At the same time, most scientific journals and preprint servers also have a limited “scope” – in other words, they don’t accept […]
Who Can Submit
<< Back to Submission Guidelines Who can submit to eiRxiv When writing a scientific manuscript, each author and researcher may have different roles and responsibilities. Every journal or preprint also has different rules for who can publish with them and how each author needs to be involved. Make sure you read and understand eiRxiv’s full […]
Submitting and Posting
Submission checklist When writing your manuscript, we recommend you: Read all of the guidelines and submission checklist Use the checklist and manuscript template as you write Check your manuscript against the submission checklist again after you have finished writing. This checklist helps to ensure the manuscript is complete and includes required manuscript sections. We use […]
Stay Connected
After passing the pre-review check, all adult authors and parents/guardians of student authors will be asked to give permission for the manuscript to be permanently published (often called “posting” for a printing).