Service
Publication Support
Help with choosing a journal, reviewing your submission materials against its requirements and responding to reviewers after a decision. Submission review provides comments and suggestions; you carry out the journal-specific edits and prepare the files.
Who it's for
Researchers with a completed manuscript, or revising one after journal feedback.
What you receive
Journal-fit notes, comments on your submission materials and cover-letter draft, a checklist of suggested actions and an edited response letter, as agreed.
What this scope covers
Journal selection
- A journal shortlist with reasons for each option, or an assessment of your chosen journal.
Submission review
- Review of your manuscript, references, tables and existing figures against the agreed journal's instructions, with suggested changes.
- Feedback on your cover-letter draft and how it presents the paper's contribution.
- Comments on required files and author declarations, with an action checklist for you to complete.
Reviewer response
- A point-by-point plan for the editor's and reviewers' comments.
- Drafting or editing of your response based on your evidence and decisions.
- Checks that stated changes appear in the revised manuscript.
Submission review
Know what to change before you submit.
Journal shortlist
Suitable options with a clear explanation of fit.
Journal requirements
Comments on how your materials meet the selected journal's instructions, with suggested changes.
Cover-letter feedback
Suggestions on your draft and how it presents your paper's contribution.
Action checklist
Suggested changes and outstanding file or declaration requirements for you to address.
Your quote confirms the journal and materials reviewed. We provide feedback; you carry out journal-specific editing and formatting, prepare the cover letter and final files, and submit.
How we work
Request the full stage, combine it with other stages, or ask for a tailored quote for one step, such as submission review only. For submission review, we review the materials you supply and recommend changes; you make the journal-specific edits, prepare the final files and submit. The quote names the journals, materials and revision round covered.
Not part of this scope
- Journal-specific editing or formatting, drafting your cover letter or preparing submission files as part of submission review.
- Submitting on your behalf, using journal accounts or acting as corresponding author.
- Journal fees, article-processing charges or publisher fees.
- Inventing experiments, results or changes that have not been made.
You approve the final work and any submission. Authors remain responsible for the work and for following institutional, journal and funder rules on professional assistance and AI disclosure.
Tell us which task you need help with.
A short, non-confidential outline is enough for the first enquiry. We agree scope and document handling before files are shared.