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If you have any questions about our submission process, please do email the Editor-in-Chief, Paul Whaley: p dot whaley at lancaster dot ac dot uk

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Summary

On this page, we provide detailed instructions for submitting your manuscript to EBT. The overall process consists of three basic steps:

  1. Complete a cover letter (select from this list)
  2. Upload your preprint to the EBT Community on Zenodo
    1. Other repositories are acceptable (just let us know if you want to use an alternative) but Zenodo is preferred
    2. If you have already uploaded a preprint elsewhere, please don’t upload a duplicate to Zenodo - just send us the link to your existing upload
  3. Submit your preprint and cover letter through the journal website

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Zenodo is an EU-funded, CERN-managed scientific data repository. It is the repository for, among other things, EU-funded research outputs from Horizon Europe, Euratom, and earlier Framework Programmes.

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Step 1. Complete a cover letter

We have created a cover letter template for each broad type of manuscript we consider for publication. As always, if you have any questions please just ask!

  1. Select your cover letter template from the table on this page, by identifying the statement that most closely describes your research situation.
  2. Complete the template and upload it as part of your Zenodo record.

Step 2. Upload to Zenodo

  1. Prepare your manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors on the EBT website (this page only describes how to submit to EBT, not how to prepare your manuscript for submission)
  2. Go to the EBT Community on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/communities/ebt/
  3. If you need to, create a Zenodo account
  4. Click “new upload” (the + sign next to the profile link in the top-right of the Zenodo website) unless this is a Stage 2 Registered Reports submission, in which case you should do the following:
    1. If this is a Stage 2 Registered Reports upload, don’t create a new Zenodo record, create a new version of the protocol record.
    2. When updating your protocol record, make it clear in the summary section on Zenodo that the new version includes the final manuscript based on the accepted protocol.
    3. When updating, also import the accepted protocol from the previous version into the new version, so protocol and final manuscript are in the same record.
  5. At the very top of the page, use the “select a community” button to choose “Evidence-Based Toxicology”. When you publish your preprint, we will then be informed about your upload.
  6. Drop in all the files related to your submission
    1. See “tips on file uploads” below for some detailed suggestions on numbering files to ensure they are correctly ordered
    2. Don’t forget to include either (i) a table of supplemental materials in your manuscript with a link to where they are stored in a permanent online repository, or (ii) upload the supplemental materials to the submission portal as well.
  7. For the question “do you already have a DOI” (Digital Object Identifier) select “no” (unless you actually have one, of course. It is not clear why, at the time of writing, this defaults to yes)
  8. For resource type, select “Publication / Preprint”