Online submission information
Registration
Submission
Post-acceptance
Page proofs
Page and color costs
Open access option
Reprints

Registration
If you have never submitted to The FASEB Journal electronically, you must first register for an account. To register, you will need to complete an online form telling us who you are and how to contact you if necessary. The information supplied here will also be filled in for you when you begin submitting a paper. You can change any of this information at any time by clicking the "Personal Info" button in the top navigation bar.

You will need to choose a username and password. Your username will be the e-mail address that you enter. Try to pick a password that you will not forget and is not easy to guess. Combinations of upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks are best (passwords are case-sensitive: capital letters must be entered as capitals, and so on). You can change your password in the future, and if you ever forget your username and/or password, you can request a reminder via e-mail.

Finally, please be sure you enter an e-mail address, a telephone number, and a fax number that you can use to handle The FASEB Journal business. All correspondence regarding your submissions will be sent using the information you enter, so use an e-mail account that you check frequently and working telephone and fax numbers. If your manuscript is accepted for publication, this information also will be used for billing purposes. Please take special care to enter all of this information correctly.

Submission
If you are interested in submitting an article to The FASEB Journal, you must send an Initial Query (IQ) to the Journal. A series of screens will take you through the process. After the initial review, you will receive an e-mail indicating whether you should submit the entire manuscript for formal review. The system will not allow you to submit a manuscript without an accepted IQ. See Getting Started: IQ and Manuscript Preparation for details on file preparation.

Post-Acceptance
If your manuscript is accepted for publication, editorial staff will attempt to use the most recently submitted materials to prepare the article for publication. Authors are strongly encouraged to provide preferred file formats when they submit revised versions of their manuscripts (if revisions are requested by the Editors). The preferred format for text is Microsoft Word, but RTF and WordPerfect formats are acceptable.

The preferred formats for figures are TIF, EPS, Microsoft PowerPoint, or PDF (if the PDF is created from the original file formats). If authors do not provide files in these formats, the manuscript may be returned for corrections. For general guidelines on how to optimize figures for publication, click here.

Authors also will be required to fax signed copyright transfer and publication cost approval forms to the editorial office prior to publication. Signatures from each author are required on the copyright form. To prevent possible delays in publication, signed copyright forms should be faxed to the editorial office in one transmission rather than separate transmissions from multiple authors. The publication cost agreement and offprint order forms should be completed by the corresponding author.

Please follow the guidelines in finalizing your manuscript for publication. Failure to send or submit online the appropriate materials will delay the publication of your article.

Page Proofs
Research Communications, Reviews, Hypotheses, and Life Sciences Forums. You will receive proofs via an email alert. Proofs should be carefully checked and any necessary changes or printer's errors should be clearly indicated. Substantial changes to the manuscript proof may require approval of the Editors, and/or may lead to additional publication costs for authors. Proofs must be returned by fax within 48 hours. Further instructions on reviewing proofs are sent with each set of proofs.

Up Front  Articles. Proofs for these articles will be sent to you directly from the Managing Editor. Questions regarding articles scheduled to appear in the Up Front section should be sent to Cody Mooneyhan, Managing Editor.

Page and Color Costs

Research Communications, Reviews, Hypotheses, and Life Sciences Forum. Page charges are $80 per printed page for the first 8 pages; $160 per page for the 9th page and higher. Color figures are $350 each. Articles containing eight or more figures and/or tables will be charged an additional $150 per figure and table. Supplemental files uploaded to the journal website are $100 for each file. To decrease supplemental file upload charges, authors should combine supplemental information into a single file, whenever possible.

Please note that figures are published the same way in the online and print versions of the journal. Authors may not publish figures in color online while publishing the same figures in grayscale in print or vice-versa.

Open Access Option
Authors of accepted manuscripts may have their articles made freely accessible on journal’s web site immediately upon final publication by paying an open access fee. The fee is $2,500 per article and is in addition to other author fees, such as page charges, color charges, reprints, supplemental files, etc.
 
If you are interested in this option, please click here to download and complete this form.
 
Authors who received funding from agencies with open access publishing requirements can meet certain funding requirements by selecting the open access option. (The journal will make a reasonable effort to help authors comply with these requirements, but ultimate responsibility, however, remains with the authors.) For these authors, upon payment of the fee, the journal will deposit the final version of the author's article in PubMed Central (PMC) and will authorize public posting on PMC and PMC mirror sites immediately upon final publication of the article. Please note that pre-print versions of articles are not the final versions and will not be deposited.

Reprints
With the page proofs, you will receive an offprint order form that must be completed and returned with the proofs even if no offprints are desired. Orders submitted after the The FASEB Journal is printed are subject to substantially higher prices.