Publishing life cycle: publication
Once your paper is with the Production Team, one of our Production Editors will take a detailed look at the paper and contact you if there are any queries or if additional files are needed. The paper is then sent to one of our trusted and long-standing partners to be copy edited and typeset.
While your paper is being prepared, for our research journals (Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science, Bioscience Reports and Neuronal Signaling), we will publish your peer-reviewed accepted research paper online as an Accepted Manuscript (AM). The paper will be picked up by PubMed and Crossref for indexing.
Typically, within one week of your paper being accepted for publication, you will be sent a proof of your article to review, with any specific queries raised by the copyeditor to be answered. You are asked to review the proof of your article as soon as you can so that the Version of Record (VoR) of your paper can be published online as soon as possible.
We aim to publish the VoR for all papers within 28 days of acceptance, although this does rely on a number of factors, including your responsiveness to queries raised by the Production Team.
All of the Portland Press journals feature author-supplied artwork on their covers. During the production process of your article, we will ask you to suggest an image from your paper (or any other images that you might have related to your work) to be used as a potential cover image for the issue of the journal in which your article will be published. Authors who supply an image to be used on the cover will be charged a small fee and in return will receive a journal cover printed on high grade 260gsm paper featuring the image (that you can display in your office or laboratory) and a printed copy of the article including the cover and journal information page will also be supplied.
In addition to PubMed and Crossref, in the month following publication, your paper will be indexed in a number of places to aid discoverability and accessibility. These include PubMed Central (if a Gold open access licence has been selected), Clarivate Web of Science, Google Scholar, ScienceOpen (for Neuronal Signaling) and CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), to name just a few. Please see individual journal ‘Impact and information’ pages to see where a specific journal is indexed.
Once you have received notification that your manuscript has been accepted for publication, the Portland Press Production Team is responsible for handling your paper.
If your paper has been accepted in one of our fully open access journals (Bioscience Reports or Neuronal Signaling), you will need to complete payment of the APC (article publishing charge) before we can proceed with the production of your paper. Our APCs are collected by our partners at the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC).
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More information on Portland Press publishing policies can be found at the links below:
Language-editing services
- To support our global author community, Portland Press has partnered with the Charlesworth Group to offer authors a 10% discount on their Charlesworth Author Services. Visit their website > or 请访问我们的中文网
For further information, please contact:
- The Editorial Office for information on preparation, submission or peer review of articles.
- The Production Team for information post-acceptance of an article and production queries.
- The Marketing Team for guidance on promotion of your paper.
