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Submission checklist

When writing your manuscript, we recommend you: 

  1. Read all of the guidelines and submission checklist
  2. Use the checklist and manuscript template as you write
  3. Check your manuscript against the submission checklist again after you have finished writing. This checklist helps to ensure the manuscript is complete and includes required manuscript sections. We use this same checklist during our prereview check, so using it  prevents delays in the post-submission process.

Submitting and Posting

What to Expect After Submission

Permissions and licensing

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What to expect after submitting

The preprint journey isn’t done after submission! Check out our eiRxiv Posting Process for more information on what to expect at each stage of the eiRxiv journey.

Permissions & Licensing

When you post your research on eiRixv, it becomes publicly available for anyone to read, share, and cite. Every preprint is assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), which ensures your manuscript is part of the permanent scientific record. 

Copyright and Licensing

All preprints on eiRxiv are posted under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). This license allows others to share, reuse, and build upon your work, as long as they give proper credit to you as the original author.

 

Why CC-BY?

At eiRxiv, we believe students’ work should be easy to share, build on, and learn from. By choosing CC-BY:

  • Students can revise and publish their work in scientific journals like the Journal of Emerging Investigators later. 
  • The scientific community can access and cite students’ work without barriers.

 

What Does CC-BY Mean for You as an Author?

CC-BY lets your preprint be part of the scientific community while protecting your authorship. 

This means:

✅You are the copyright holder of your preprint, including the text and the data.

✅People can share and resue your preprint but must give credit by citing your work.

✅You can submit your preprint (text and/or data) to be published in a peer-reviewed journal at a later date.

Can I publish my work in a peer-reviewed journal after posting on eiRixv?

✅Yes! Posting on eiRxiv does not stop you from publishing in a peer-reviewed journal like the Journal of Emerging Investigators. If you submit to a journal after your preprint is posted, you should let them know that your work has been previously posted as a preprint, so you can follow their policies. We also ask that you inform eiRxiv if you decide to publish your preprint in a peer reviewed journal so we can add the new publication’s link to your preprint record.

✅Absolutely. Since your preprint is licensed under CC-BY, you can share it anywhere as long as you give credit to all of the authors.

⚠️Please check with your teacher or mentor before submitting to eiRxiv. Almost all labs require approval from the head of the lab (Principal Investigator) before students’ work can be shared publicly.

⚠️Preprints are in the permanent scientific record once posted. They can only be withdrawn in rare cases (e.g. there is an error or misconduct), and even then, the DOI with the title and author names will still be publicly available. Therefore, it’s important to ensure all authors agree before submitting to eiRxiv.

eiRxiv and JEI serve different roles in the scientific community, so they use different Creative Commons licenses.

  • eiRxiv (CC-BY): Preprints posted on eiRxiv are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY). This means others are free to share, reuse, and build on your preprints as long as they give you credit as the author. It also means you can revise and submit your full or partial manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal or other publisher after it has been posted on eiRxiv. Many scientific journals these days accept previously-posted preprints for formal publication, but only if the preprint uses this less restrictive CC-BY license. 

 

  • JEI (CC-BY-NC-ND): Articles published in JEI are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND). This license allows articles to be shared freely with appropriate credit, but they cannot be changed, reused in other publications, or used commercially. This license essentially gives the author more control over the ways in which their work can be used, and by whom. JEI articles use this license because they are peer-reviewed, finalized scientific records that may not be published again elsewhere.

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Once you have finished your manuscript and ensured it meets all of our guidelines, you’re ready to submit! To do this: 

  1. The student author will create an eiRxiv account, complete an official checklist, and invite an adult corresponding author. 
  2. The adult corresponding author (a teacher, parent or mentor) will also create an eiRxiv account, complete a checklist, and upload all of the forms and contact information necessary for submission. 

Note to adult authors: make sure you have the names and contact information for all adult authors, as well as the parents/guardians of all student authors, before you begin.

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