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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	Further Info
Posting on Personal Website	Yes – at any time	Yes – no embargo	No	See full conditions in Policy.
Posting on employer’s or institution’s website	Yes – at any time	Yes – after 12 month embargo	No	See full conditions in Policy.
Posting on non-commercial institutional or subject repository	Yes – at any time	Yes – after 12 month embargo	No	See full conditions in Policy.
Posting on non-commercial Scientific Social Network	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.
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.
Making copies for teaching purposes	Yes	Yes	Yes	See full conditions in article copyright form.
Include in a research thesis or dissertation (provided not published commercially)	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))	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))	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: 

 

• IOP Publishing research data policy 

• IOP Publishing open data policy (n.b. pilot policy running on selected environmental science journals only) 

• 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. 

Article multimedia 

IOPscience allows inline presentation of multimedia files within journal articles, with videos, animations or sound files that are supplied by authors as part of the main article treated as figures. Multimedia figures are represented in the PDF by a static image with appropriate caption. In the HTML the same image and caption are displayed, readers can click/tap the image to play the multimedia file inline. 

If a figure has more than one multimedia file, there must be a separate image for each file (e.g. parts a and b for a figure with two videos). This is necessary so that the files both display in the HTML. 

Please note that multimedia files must not include any music. 

To make multimedia files accessible to as many readers as possible, the caption accompanying the file must include a description of the key points demonstrated by the video/audio. If the time duration of a video is long enough, we encourage authors to add a voiceover describing the key points illustrated. If the video already has audio, try to record your description in spaces where the original audio is not crucial to the information in the file. 

 

Technical specifications 

We strongly recommend video files be delivered in the MPEG-4 container, encoded with the H264 codec. Other formats may be provided, but using MPEG-4 will provide the most faithful rendering of your video in the HTML journal article. 

Video files should be a maximum of 10 MB file size each. Exceptions can be made in cases where larger files are essential for the science being presented. 

Recommended settings: 

• Frame rate: 15 frames s-1 

• Frame size: 480 x 360 pixels 

• Data rate: 150 kB s-1 

 

Interactive figures 

Authors may prepare interactive models to enhance the communication of their research. These models are treated as figures in the article. Each model is represented in the PDF by a static image with an appropriate caption. The HTML in IOPscience displays the figure and caption with a ‘Start interaction’ button which loads the interactive model within the flow of the article. 

To make interactive figures accessible to as many readers as possible, the caption accompanying the figure must include a description of the key points demonstrated by the interactivity. 

Example images: 

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/115 figures 2 and 3 

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/819/2/113 figures 1 and 5 

Interactive models should use the X3D standard. This is an open-source, XML-based format curated by the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO). By using the X3DOM javascript/CSS combination, X3D models can be incorporated directly into HTML without the need for browser plug-ins. This can be downloaded at https://www.x3dom.org. 

We strongly recommend the use of X3D/X3DOM but stand-alone interactive figures produced using alternative packages (such as Plotly https://plot.ly/ or Bokeh http://bokeh.pydata.org/) are also accepted. 

Authors interested in using this functionality need to create and supply the interactive model and an HTML file that presents the model, along with all .JS and .CSS files used.