For journal authors

Found a journal in which you would like to publish? Then we suggest going to the journal’s website and reading the information on the submission form. Please follow our specifications for guidance with creating and formatting your manuscript. In each journal’s supplementary pages, you will find the current impact factor and additional information about the journal.

Many journals accept manuscript submissions through the online systems ScholarOne Manuscripts and Editorial Manager. This saves you time and speeds up the publication process. Journals without a submission system of this type can be contacted via the relevant product page.

If you have any questions, please contact journals@degruyter.com

De Gruyter authors pay nothing for publication in subscription-based journals. However, you are free to publish your article under Open Access conditions. In this case, article processing charges (APCs) apply for the publication. In return, you retain the copyright for your article and can freely distribute your content to the academic world.

De Gruyter offers a variety of open access models. You can publish articles in a fully open access journal, though there is also the option of a subscription-based journal using the “hybrid open access” model.

For detailed guidelines about composing and formatting manuscripts, please refer to the instructions for authors offered at each journal’s “supplementary material” pages.

Illustrations (black & white or color) are free of charge in all De Gruyter journals. Separate rules apply to open access journals.

The number of graphics allowed varies by journal. In general, however, you should limit them to those that are necessary. In the case of journals that work with an online submission system (such as ScholarOne Manuscripts and Editorial Manager), you will automatically receive information about how you can upload your graphics. As a general rule, all graphics should be provided with a unique caption.

The “Permission Requests” section of our Rights & Permissions page includes instructions on how to obtain rights to use or edit graphics.

Manuscripts must follow certain ethical guidelines to be considered for publication. These can generally be found in the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement, which can be found at each journal’s supplementary pages. Accordingly, before submitting your manuscript, please make sure that you and your co-authors agree to the applicable requirements. For example, this may involve declaring and ruling out conflicts of interest or proving compliance with legal requirements related to animal testing.
Furthermore, our Code of Conduct for Publication Procedures and Ethics defines the responsibility of De Gruyter as a publisher and the Editors we work with, to ensure the legitimacy and quality of our published research.

Our principles are based on the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a non-profit, publisher-independent system that is used to uniquely identify academics and their publications. Click here for detailed information about ORCID.

The evaluation process varies from journal to journal.

• Single-blind review: the reviewers remain anonymous to the authors.
• Double-blind review: the reviewers do not know who the authors are, nor do the authors know who has evaluated their manuscript.

Typically, at least two independent experts are invited to review a manuscript’s content. The manuscript is then either accepted, rejected, or returned for revision based on their evaluation.

With many journals, you can propose reviewers who come from outside of your closest areas of academia. It is at the editors’ discretion whether to accept these proposals.

In assessing the academic quality of a manuscript, its significance, the timeliness of the topic it covers, and the plausibility of its results play a crucial role. However, compliance with formal criteria, sound structuring, and comprehensible language free from errors are also key to a submission’s success.

For the journal-specific specifications, refer to the instructions for authors on the relevant product pages.

Before your contribution is published, you will receive a proof of the article to proofread. We then also ask you to agree to our Copyright Transfer Agreement, which you can find here. At this point in the publication process, there must be no more changes made to the content: only minor corrections in form and phrasing are possible.

The review process will take a different amount of time depending on the journal. You can find a rough estimate of this on the journal’s relevant product page. Once your article has been accepted, there will be around three or four weeks’ wait before it is published online. This is only true for ahead of print publications.

Most academic journals are organized in volumes and issues, appearing in both online and print versions. Especially in the STEM field, however, it is necessary to publish as quickly as possible. As a result, articles are first published online “ahead of print” in many journals to provide the fastest possible access. The articles are subsequently assigned to an issue when it is published.

“Just accepted” means that manuscripts in some journals are shared online immediately after they have been accepted (i.e. even before copy-editing, typesetting, and final proofreading).

Both ahead-of-print and just-accepted items are given a DOI (digital object identifier), making it possible to cite them as soon as they have appeared.

As the corresponding author, you receive unlimited free access to the online edition of your article. As soon as it is published online, you will be e-mailed a message with detailed instructions about how you can view your article and download it as a PDF. As per our Repository Policy, you can send up to 30 copies of your article to colleagues.

Twelve months after initial publication, De Gruyter allows authors to archive the final published version of their article on their personal website and/or in an institutional directory (on a server run for non-commercial purposes).

For more information about adding content to repositories, please refer to the relevant De Gruyter publishing guidelines.

The De Gruyter website has undergone search engine optimization, meaning that your article will be easy to discover. We maintain close contact with various abstracting and indexing services. In addition, individual journal contributions can be selected by the editors as an editors’ choice article. These articles will then be free to access for one calendar year.

Abstracting and indexing services like Web of Science and SCOPUS use metadata and abstracts to help provide access to the content of academic journal articles and eBooks. This substantially increases the readership of academic literature. Learn more.

We actively use several subject-specific accounts on Facebook and Twitter. New releases and highlights are regularly communicated to more than 32,000 fans and followers via the De Gruyter social media platforms. Journal articles which might be of broader interest to the public are announced on Twitter and Facebook, and presented on our subject-specific blog De Gruyter Conversations.