Submission and Refereeing procedure
Submission
To submit your article for publication in a SciPost Journal, authors must:
- Prepare their manuscript using the SciPost LaTeX template (.tex, .pdf)
- Make your preprint publicly available on arXiv.org
- After appearance on arxiv.org, fill the SciPost Submission form, selecting which SciPost Journal to submit to and providing domain and speciality specifications.
Note that you cannot submit directly to SciPost Physics Select or SciPost Physics X. Submissions to SciPost Physics Letters deemed of superlative quality will be editorially promoted to SPS (and similarly for articles from SciPost Physics to SciPost Physics X).
Refereeing procedure
All incoming Submissions to SciPost Journals are peer-reviewed using SciPost's peer-witnessed refereeing process, implementing the highest standard of refereeing available. The precise procedure follows this pattern (the various types of Editors are described in the next section):
- A Specialty Editor is internally selected and becomes Editor-in-charge of the manuscript. A Submission Page is activated (this is similar to a Commentary Page, but with Reports also enabled), and is immediately open to Contributor Comments and Author Replies, all of which are vetted by the Editor-in-charge of the submission.
- The Editor-in-charge starts a Refereeing round (whose duration depends on the Journal, see below), inviting specific Contributors to provide an Invited Report.
- During a refereeing round, registered Contributors to SciPost can volunteer a Contributed Report.
- During the refereeing round, authors can continuously provide Replies to Reports and Comments.
- At the end of the refereeing round, Reports, Replies and Comments are assessed by the Editor-in-charge, who formulates an editorial recommendation and forwards it to the Journal's Editors-in-chief, who fix the editorial decision.
- The Editorial decision is communicated to the Authors. This consists in either a publication offer, request for resubmission (with minor revisions, or major revisions (leading to another refereeing round)), or rejection.
- The Authors can respond to the Editorial decision by accepting an eventual publication offer (in which case the Submission Page and its contents are moved to a SciPost Publication Page), by revising their manuscript and resubmitting to SciPost (in which case a new Submission Page is opened, retaining a link to the previous version's Submission Page), or by withdrawing their Submission (in which case the Submission Page is deactivated and all its contents removed from public view).
The duration of refereeing rounds depends on the Journal: 3 weeks for Letters, 4 weeks for traditional articles, and 8 weeks for Lecture Notes.
{% endif %}
{% endblock bodysup %}