PeerCite Publishers

Submission Guide

PeerCite Journals is an online archive and distribution service for preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by State University of New York a not-for-profit research and educational institution.

An article may be deposited in PeerCite Journals in draft or final form, provided that it concerns a relevant scientific field, the content is unpublished at the time of submission, and all its authors have consented to its deposition. Authors wishing to deposit manuscripts must first register on the site. There is charge for registration or article deposition.

PeerCite Journals is a source of technical information and should not be used to distribute other kinds of content such as news, product advertisements or policy statements. All articles uploaded to PeerCite Journals undergo a basic screening process for offensive and/or non-scientific content and for material that might pose a health or biosecurity risk. Articles are peer-reviewed before being posted online. No endorsement of their methods, assumptions, conclusions or scientific quality by SUNY State University of Newyork is implied by their appearance in PeerCite Journals.

Articles and the author’s manuscript is either submitted as, or automatically converted into, a PDF file.

Articles appear in PeerCite Journals in the order in which they were received. They are retrievable via the web interface at charge.

SUBMISSION FORMAT

The simplest way to deposit a manuscript on PeerCite Journals is to upload a single PDF including the text and any figures/tables. Supplemental data should be created in a separate file or files. 

Alternatively, you may upload a Word file containing the main text (plus any tables) and separate figure files, from which a single PDF will be created. An automated PDF-conversion engine is responsible for the conversion and it can process many figure file formats, including JPEG, TIFF, EPS, PowerPoint. These formats are not compatible, however: PICT, Bitmap, Excel, PSD. For these files, you will need to convert them to PDF or an acceptable file format. LaTeX files should be converted to PDF prior to submission; they may also be uploaded as Supplemental Material.

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL AND DATA USE

Authors are free to include Supplemental Material such as additional tables and MPEG files. Large data sets, however, should instead be deposited in the appropriate community database (e.g., Protein Data Bank [PDB], GenBank). (See “Revisions” guidelines below.)

Authors should abide by all relevant community guidelines for use and acknowledgment of data resources (e.g., the Fort Lauderdale guidelines), obtaining permission where required and citing the appropriate laboratory, website, and accession numbers.

TERMS OF DISTRIBUTION 

After an article is deposited in PeerCite Journals, it is citable and therefore cannot be removed. The copyright remains with the author, who is asked to select from several distribution/reuse options under which to make the article available (CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, CC0, or no reuse). By posting on PeerCite Journals, authors explicitly consent to text mining of their work (e.g., by search engines or researchers).


PeerCite Journals reserves the right to identify and remove any articles containing plagiarized material or work not performed in accordance with the relevant ethical standards and to share information as appropriate if we have reason to believe a breach of research integrity has occurred.

ARTICLE CATEGORIES

Articles in PeerCite Journals are categorized as New ResultsConfirmatory Results, or Contradictory Results. Please select the category that best describes your findings.

  • New Results is most appropriate for articles that describe an advance in a field.
  • Confirmatory Results should be selected if the findings largely replicate and confirm previously published work.
  • Contradictory Results should be selected if the studies largely replicate experimental approaches used in previously published work but the results contradict and/or do not support it.


CITATION

Preprints deposited in PeerCite Journals can be cited using their digital object identifier (DOI). PeerCite Journals DOIs assigned have a simple six-digit suffix, whereas those assigned after this date will also include the date stamp for the day of submission approval (see below). Revised versions of manuscripts retain the same DOI assigned to the first version.

Example: Author AN, Author BT (2013) My article title. PeerCite Journals doi: 10.61641/202

3.12.11.123456

Govindarajan K (2023) The impact of gut microbiota on cellular response to multidrug resistant transporter substrates in vitro with focus on p-glycoprotein. Peercite J Surg Med. 1:11-19. Doi: 10.61641/pjsm.2023.1.4.11-19.

Example: doi: 10.61641/journal short name. 2023.1.1.11-19 version 1.

REVISIONS

Authors are free to submit a revised version of an article at any time (prior to acceptance for publication) by clicking on ‘submit a revision’ within the Author Area. The new version will use the same doi as the original submission, which also will remain accessible on the PeerCite Journals site. Supplemental data, if any, must accompany each version of a paper; authors have the option of selecting previously posted Supplemental files and/or including revised Supplemental files with each article revision.


LIST OF PUBLISHERS’ PREPRINT POLICIES

Most research journals allow posting on preprint servers such as PeerCite Journals prior to publication.

Authors should consult these lists and other sources of information before posting on PeerCite Journals.


DIRECT TRANSFER FROM PEERCITE JOURNALS TO JOURNALS OR PEER REVIEW SERVICES (P2J)

PeerCite Journals can save authors time in submitting papers to journals or peer review services by transmitting their manuscript files and metadata directly from PeerCite Journals. This means authors do not have to spend time re-loading manuscript files and re-entering author information at the journal or peer review service website. Partners currently participating in P2J are listed below (scroll to view full list).