Your manuscript will be thoroughly evaluated by at least one handling editor and two peer-reviewers. Feedback is edited for constructiveness by the handling editor.
We will assist you in providing the reader of your manuscript with all the information they need to understand what you did, what you found, and how to reproduce your results.
We make the reasons for all of our decisions publicly-available, and we are therefore accountable for how we handle your manuscript.
Because our editors cannot reject a manuscript but only make revision recommendations, there is no possibility of inexplicable decisions not to publish your paper.
In our collaborative review process, you can always explain why it may not be feasible or appropriate to make the recommended revisions. Together we will work out the appropriate path forward for your manuscript.
Increasingly, engagement in open science practices is considered a marker of the reliability of research. By publishing with us, using our open science workflows, your work will stand out for its credibility and rigour.
Everything we publish is issues under a CC-BY licence, meaning it is free for anyone else to use so long as they attribute your contribution in their work. You retain ownership of the content of your manuscript.
As a Gold Open Access journal, your manuscript is made available for free to the reader, increasing the accessibility of your research.