{"id":41425,"date":"2023-02-06T19:31:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/?p=41425"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:22:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T08:22:37","slug":"free-format-submissions-and-adoption-by-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/free-format-submissions-and-adoption-by-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Mold: Understanding free format submissions and their adoption by journals"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a researcher, should you be conducting research or worrying about formatting your paper as per your target journal\u2019s guidelines? And these formats are not universal. Every journal has its own set of technical and formatting requirements that it follows to maintain its publishing standards. Researchers like you, who work day in and day out of laboratories to conduct research and eventually publish it, often find it difficult to keep up with the unique styling and formatting process of every journal. Because of this, editors and publishers have been receiving pleas from researchers to simplify the manuscript preparation process. To ease this onerous process of formatting and re-formatting in lieu of doing something more productive in research, several journals have now adopted free-format submissions.<\/p>\n

To understand this concern raised by the authors, Elsevier\u2019s Research and Academic Relations department conducted a survey in 2012 and found that one in three authors find the manuscript preparation and formatting process arduous and time-consuming. With this blog post, let\u2019s learn more about free format submissions and how are journals adopting them.<\/p>\n

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