Submission FAQs

YES! eiRxiv takes submissions from outside of the United States. Anyone in grades 9-12 (United States) or ages 13 - 18  is welcome to submit to eiRxiv that meets our author eligibility criteria. All articles must be written in English, so we do recommend finding additional help with your writing if English is not your first language as it will help your review process go a bit smoother.

No, the eiRxiv preprint server has no charge to submit your manuscript.

1. The manuscript was not submitted on our manuscript template. The manuscript template was designed to help authors write their manuscripts and avoid commonly seen mistakes.
2. A student author submitted their own work instead of having the senior author or an adult mentor submit on their behalf. Under no circumstances are student authors ever allowed to submit their own manuscript to eiRxiv via Editorial Manager.
3. Hypothesis does not meet our hypothesis-guidelines. The biggest issue we see are manuscripts that are literature reviews or ones that describe an invention.
4. Sections are missing from the manuscript. All eiRxiv manuscripts are required to have a Summary, Introduction, Results, Discussion, Materials and Methods, and References section and be in that order.
5. Additional sections are present in the manuscript. Make sure you are not adding additional sections to your manuscript that are not listed in the template. Subheadings are permitted only in the Results and Methods sections but not in the Introduction and Discussion sections.
6. References are not cited in the main text. In-text citations help show statements that you are making that are supported by other work.
7. Missing figure captions. Figure captions can be one of the hardest things to write for a manuscript, but we need all authors to give it a good try with their first submission so we can help further refine them!
8. Approval paperwork to do human or vertebrate animal research is missing. We have to have this paperwork upon submission to ensure that research involving humans or vertebrate animals was reviewed beforehand and ethically conducted.

1. Read our submission guidelines.
2. We have put a lot of thought and time into the content of our submission guide and how it is presented. It is the main place you should be looking when you have a question as most are answered with material there.
3. Use our manuscript template.
4. Not only is the template required for all eiRxiv submissions, but it covers common mistakes we see in every section of the manuscript and how you can fix them. This is why we say you should not just copy and paste your text onto the template, but you should actually take the time to read through the information present and edit your submission accordingly.
5. Anytime you are submitting a revised manuscript after scientific review, save your Word file so that the file name includes the manuscript number.
6. This helps out our editors as they are working on many manuscript at once. Having the manuscript number means we can make sure we upload the correct file when sending a decision and be able to easily go back to it as needed.
7. Save your figure files with the figure number in the file name.
8. Our editors must download all files from Editorial Manager in order to make the final PDF of your manuscript for publication. By including the figure number you make this process easier and faster for our editors and decrease the chance they place a figure in the wrong location in the PDF.

eiRxiv requires an adult to be involved in your educational journey. Ideally, this would be your classroom teacher, but it could also be a parent or another adult at your school. This adult is willing to be responsible for your submission.

Instructions for formatting manuscripts are found in our submission guidelines and on our manuscript template.

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No. eiRxiv only allows one submission from student authors at a time. More information on this policy is provided on our review process page.

The length of the review process varies based on time of year, number of submissions we are currently processing in our system, and the completeness of revisions made by authors. We extensively cover our review processs  a. If your submission is accepted on the first time, the review should be completed in 2-3 weeks. You will receive notification when it's published and when the review is published.

A DOI is a Digital Object Identifier. All eiRxiv articles are registered after publication and given a DOI. The DOI is a permanent ID and link to the article that will never change. Unless indicated otherwise by style guidelines, you should always include your article’s DOI when citing it anywhere.

It is important to note that a DOI is not the same as indexing your article. Indexing most often refers to depositing your article in a particular repository, such as PubMed or GoogleScholar. eiRxiv articles are not indexed.