Complete journal submission packages, ready to upload.

A submission preparation service prepares all the supporting documents and components that journals require alongside the main manuscript. This includes drafting a journal specific cover letter, writing highlights bullet points, designing the graphical abstract, organising supplementary files, preparing author declarations and CRediT contributor statements, configuring ORCID information, and ensuring every component the journal submission portal asks for is ready to upload.

A professional journal cover letter typically includes a brief introduction to the work, a clear statement of significance and novelty, confirmation that the manuscript is original and not under review elsewhere, a list of suggested or excluded reviewers if the journal allows, any conflicts of interest, and the corresponding author’s full contact details. We draft cover letters tailored to your target journal’s specific expectations.

Highlights are typically 3 to 5 bullet points of 85 characters or less per bullet. Each highlight captures one key finding or contribution of your research. Notably, Elsevier journals were the first to popularise highlights and many publishers now require them. We draft highlights that are concise, specific, and convey the manuscript’s contribution at a glance for editor and reader scanning.

A graphical abstract is a single image that visually summarises the main finding or methodology of your research article. It appears alongside the text abstract in journal indexing databases and on the journal homepage. Most graphical abstracts are designed using vector graphics tools like Adobe Illustrator, BioRender, or Inkscape, and follow specific size and format requirements per journal. Furthermore, we design graphical abstracts from scratch or refine existing drafts.

Yes. We draft journal specific cover letters from scratch using your manuscript abstract, key findings, and target journal information. Specifically, our editors review the journal’s editor preferences (when publicly available) and tailor the cover letter accordingly. You receive a polished, ready to submit cover letter that you can adjust to your voice if needed.

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is a standard set of 14 roles that academic publishers use to document author contributions. Importantly, Elsevier, Wiley, Springer Nature, and most major publishers now require CRediT statements with submission. We map each author’s contributions to the appropriate CRediT roles (Conceptualisation, Methodology, Investigation, Writing – original draft, etc.) and format the statement to journal specification.

ORCID is a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you as a researcher from every other researcher. Notably, most major publishers now require ORCID for the corresponding author, and many require ORCID for all authors. We help configure ORCID profiles, link your existing ORCID to the submission system, and ensure all author ORCIDs are correctly included in the manuscript metadata.

Supplementary materials are organised into properly labelled files (Supplementary Figure 1, Supplementary Table 1, Supplementary Methods, etc.), formatted to journal specifications, and packaged with clear file naming conventions. Furthermore, we ensure that in text references to supplementary content match the supplementary files exactly, and that the supplementary file list in the manuscript matches what is uploaded.

Journals typically require several declarations: conflict of interest statement, funding statement, ethics approval (for human or animal research), informed consent statement (for human research), data availability statement, and author contribution statement. Accordingly, we draft all of these to journal specification using your provided information about ethics committees, funding sources, and data deposits.

Standard turnaround is 72 hours from order confirmation. Express turnaround is 24 hours for urgent submission deadlines. Time required depends on the components requested, complexity of the cover letter, and whether graphical abstract design is included. We confirm exact timing in your free quote within 3 hours.

Yes. We can help you compile a list of appropriate reviewers based on your manuscript topic, citation patterns, and journal preferences. Most journals allow or require suggested reviewers, and we help identify researchers active in your field who would provide informed peer review. Additionally, we also help identify reviewers to exclude if there are conflicts of interest.

Different journal submission portals (Editorial Manager, ScholarOne Manuscripts, eJournal Press, Manuscript Central) have different upload requirements. Specifically, we package every component in the correct format and naming convention for your specific portal, including PDF cover letters, separate figure files, supplementary file bundles, and any required forms or declarations.

Yes. If your manuscript has been previously posted as a preprint (bioRxiv, arXiv, SSRN, etc.) or previously submitted to and rejected from another journal, we draft the appropriate disclosure statements. Furthermore, we also handle disclosures for related conference papers, supplementary preprint information, and revised manuscript histories.

We do not modify or recreate copyrighted figures from other publications without proper permission. If you need to reproduce or adapt a published figure, we can advise on the permissions process and format your permission acknowledgements correctly. Additionally, we can also prepare new original figures based on your own data.