Please Review the Submission Guide Prior to Submitting

Before submitting your manuscript:

1. Reread our submission guidelines and your manuscript, and compare - does your manuscript meet all of our guidelines? 
2. Make sure your manuscript includes all of the formatting and sections our template and checklist require. 
3. Check your manuscript PDF and any other files you will be uploading to make sure they are complete and clear. 

We use these same criteria during prereview. Checking your manuscript yourself before submitting may help increase the likelihood that it will pass prereview. 

Step 1: A Coordinating Adult (Mentor) makes an account in our platform (see link below)

To comply with laws to protect minors online, such as Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the United States, we require an adult (the “Coordinating Adult”) to submit the manuscript on behalf of the student authors. The coordinating adult will:

• Submit the manuscript in the eiRxiv platform on behalf of all authors.
• Collect and submit all submission materials and revisions; students cannot submit these on their own.
• Manage all communications with eiRxiv on behalf of all manuscript authors.
• May serve as an adult author on the manuscript. 
• Undergraduate students cannot serve as coordinating adults. 

Step 2: Coordinating Adult submits the manuscript on our platform

Step 3: Coordinating Adult invites the first student author (and any other authors) to join the manuscript on our platform. 

Step 4: Student joins the platform and approves the manuscript

Once a manuscript has been submitted to eiRxiv, our Submissions Editor will conduct a prereview check to determine whether changes are needed before the manuscript can be posted.  The coordinating adult must guide the student through making these revisions, and submit the revised manuscript.

If the manuscript is accepted, all authors will also need to sign publication consent forms prior to publication. 

Remember that submission does not guarantee publication.