Submitting your manuscript
Authors should submit their manuscripts and should have the consent of all contributing authors. The individual responsible for submitting the manuscript should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the manuscript are listed as authors. Third parties may in some cases submit manuscripts but where appropriate, EPH reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.
Please view our authorship policies on the EPH Author Gateway, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more.
What should I submit?
Details about what specific information to submit will be included in your chosen journal’s guidelines but the below might be helpful to know:
- You may be asked to include a cover
letter: To help the
Editor in their preliminary evaluation you should indicate why you think
the manuscript suitable for publication.
- A title page: with all required identifying information
as laid out in the How to prepare your manuscript for submission
page. This will
not be sent to the peer reviewers.
- Your manuscript: properly formatted. If submitting to a
journal that follows a double-anonymized peer review process please ensure
it is anonymized. This version will be
sent to the peer reviewers.
- Figures and images: all figures must be numbered consecutively
in the order in which they appear in the text – they will appear in the
published article in the order they are numbered. Figure resolution is
300dpi. More information can be found on the How to prepare your
manuscript for submission page.
- Supplemental material: This journal can host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images, etc) alongside the full-text of the article. Your supplemental material must be one of our accepted file types. For that list and more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplemental files.
- Complete list of authors, with their
institutional affiliations: The
author information you enter at submission must exactly match what is
included on your manuscript and/or title page, including full names,
academic affiliations, and corresponding author contact details.  The listed affiliation should be
the institution where the research was conducted. If
an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research,
the new affiliation can be included in a note at the end of the
manuscript. All
listed authors must meet the criteria for authorship and all those
eligible for authorship must be included at the time of submission. All
authors must have given consent for the manuscript to be submitted in its
current form. Please ensure the information you are supplying is correct.
If feedback raised during peer review suggests the addition of an unlisted
author, please use the Authorship Change Form to make this
request. Please note that authorship cannot be changed post-acceptance.
- Keywords: During submission, you may be asked to
select keywords from a pre-determined list. These keywords are used to
match appropriate reviewers to your manuscript. Your selections should
match the keywords on your manuscript as much as possible, but your
manuscript may include keywords not on the list.
- The number of figures, tables, and words in
your manuscript.
- Funder information: Name, grant/award number.
- You may be required to enter your declaration of conflicting interest as part of the submission process, in addition to listing it on your manuscript and/or title page.