IOP Publishing requires all authors to declare any funding they received related to the research article they are submitting for publication.
When you submit your paper, you will be asked to provide information on all funders associated with your work in the section called ‘Policies & Information’. It is important that you enter this information to comply with funder publication policies and to enable our editors to assess any conflicts of interest.
The funding information you provide in the online submission system must match any funders you intend to list in the acknowledgments section of your article.
When asked about funding in the online submission system, please start to write the name of your funder and then select the relevant funder from the list that appears. Please only write the full name of your funder manually if you do not see your funder in the list. Please provide grant numbers for all the funders you acknowledge.
You must ensure you obtain any necessary permissions from your funder(s) before submitting your article.
Is the article scientifically correct and robust? Are the methods and results presented in a reproducible way and appropriately analysed to support the conclusions?
Originality: A measure of the novelty of the ideas, techniques and results reported in the manuscript compared to the existing literature.
Scientific rigour: A measure of how well the experiment has been carried out; whether all necessary details of the method and results are presented in a way that they can be reproduced; and whether the results have been appropriately analysed and discussed. (This includes the testability of any theoretical predictions or modelling.)
Significance: A measure of the importance and likely impact of the work within the article’s field.
Clarity: A measure of how clearly the authors have written the article and presented the information.
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As a Named Author of an article published with IOP Publishing on a subscription basis, you are granted back certain reuse & depositing rights under the copyright form and author rights policy.
This table is intended as a quick reference guide for our author rights policy (subscription articles). You must read the full author rights policy (subscription articles) to ensure you are adhering to the full terms and conditions of the policy, before posting online or reusing any content you published with IOP Publishing.
This Author Rights Policy only applies to some of our journals (those listed at the end of the Policy).
All other journals published by IOP Publishing have different author rights policies, please check our Author Rights Policies page for information. If this does not cover the journal you published your article in, please see this page which sets out our partners who have different policies which they handle themselves.
As an author of an article published on a subscription basis, which version of my article may I post and when? See quick check guide below.
| Author Rights |
Preprint |
Accepted Manuscript |
Final Published Version
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Further Info |
| Posting on Personal Website
|
Yes – at any time
|
Yes – no embargo |
No |
See full conditions in Policy.
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| Posting on employer’s or institution’s website
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Yes – at any time
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Yes – after 12 month embargo
|
No |
See full conditions in Policy.
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| Posting on non-commercial institutional or subject repository
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Yes – at any time
|
Yes – after 12 month embargo
|
No |
See full conditions in Policy. |
| Posting on non-commercial Scientific Social Network
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Yes – at any time |
Yes – after 12 month embargo |
No |
See full conditions in Policy.
|
| Posting on commercial Scientific Social Network |
Yes – at any time
|
No |
No |
See full conditions in Policy.
Examples of commercial SSNs are ResearchGate, Mendeley*, Academia.edu
|
| *Posting in own private library on Mendeley
|
Yes – no embargo |
Yes – no embargo |
No |
See full conditions in Policy.
|
| Posting on arXiv |
Yes – at any time |
Yes – after 12 month embargo
(NB. a few of our journals allow immediate posting) |
No |
See full conditions in Policy (including which journals allow immediate posting).
|
| Posting on bioRxiv |
Yes – at any time
|
Yes – after 12 month embargo
|
No |
See full conditions in Policy.
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| Use all or part of the article without modification in personal compilations of own works (provided not created by third party publisher)
|
Yes |
Yes |
No |
See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Making copies for teaching purposes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Include in a research thesis or dissertation (provided not published commercially)
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Yes – at any time |
Yes |
Yes |
See full conditions in article copyright form.
|
| Make oral presentation of article & include summary/highlights of it in papers distributed at presentations
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
See full conditions in article copyright form.
|
| Include summary/highlights of article in conference proceedings
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
See full conditions in article copyright form.
|
| Use original figures allowed under the quota of the STM Permissions Guidelines if publishing an article with another STM signatory publisher
|
Yes – 3 figures only may be used |
Yes – 3 figures only may be used |
Yes – 3 figures only may be used |
See full conditions in article copyright form & in STM Permissions Guidelines section. |
| Use original text allowed under the quota of the STM Permissions Guidelines if publishing an article with another STM signatory publisher
|
Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
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Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
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Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
|
See full conditions in article copyright form & in STM Permissions Guidelines section |
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Please refer to this table as a quick check guide for where & when you may post your article. The rights you are granted varies, depending on which version of the article you wish to use.
Though it is not necessary to use this file, using these Word templates for journal articles may help to speed the publication of accepted articles.
Check the peer review model for the journal you are submitting to when preparing the Word version of your manuscript. You can find out the peer review model for our journals on the “About the Journal” section of our journal homepages.
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Double-anonymous
Use our double-anonymous template
We also have a double-anonymous checklist, so you can be sure you’ve fully anonymised your paper before submission.
Single-anonymous
Use our single-anonymous template
IOP Publishing supports the principles of transparency and openness in scientific research, with the reproducibility of research facilitated by the availability of data, code and research materials underpinning research articles.
Many research funders now require authors to make all data related to their research available in an online repository. Funder policies can be viewed at the open policy finder database.
All IOP Publishing journals have a policy on research data and this will be listed in the ‘about the journal’ section of their website. IOP Publishing journals and several journals published in partnership with other organisations will follow one of the following policies on research data:
- Standard data policy (n.b. policy applicable on a small number of titles IOP Publishing publishes on behalf of other organisations)
Some journals that IOP Publishing publishes on behalf of another society or organisation may have their own custom policy on research data. Please check the specific journal guidelines before submitting your article.
