You can format your paper in the way that you choose! It is not necessary to try to produce pages that look like published journal pages, as the detailed design (typesetting) work will be undertaken by IOP as part of the production process.
If you would prefer to work from a template, we do provide this for both LaTeX and Word.
LaTeX template
Word template
When submitting a new article, we only require you to upload a single PDF file (and any relevant supplementary data). Check the peer review model for the journal you are submitting to. If the peer review model is single-anonymous then your PDF will need to contain the names and institutes of authors at the start of the text. Figures and tables also need to be included within the text. If double-anonymous then you will need to anonymise your manuscript.
We do ask that you consider the readability for reviewers when formatting your manuscript. For example, please use a reasonable font size (at least 12 point) and line spacing. There is no need for you to include line numbers in your manuscript as these will automatically be added on submission. Figures and tables should be embedded at the appropriate point within the text, rather than placed at the end of the manuscript. Papers must be written in English.
When writing your article, please only use Roman characters and do not include Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters in the body of the manuscript, including the reference list. Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters are only permitted in the author list.
Need help formatting your paper?
IOP Editing Services, in partnership with Editage, also provides formatting and artwork services if you would like help preparing your paper for submission.
Articles should include a full list of the current institutional affiliations of all authors, both academic and corporate, and all author e-mail addresses listed should be correct to the best of the authors’ knowledge. We also encourage authors to provide ORCID identifiers for each named author on submission. If a researcher is not affiliated to an institution or company, they can list themselves as “independent researcher”.
Corresponding Authors must check their affiliation information is correct both on the submission system and in the manuscript, as institutions cannot be changed or removed after the article has been accepted. Additional affiliations can be added, however these will be added as a footnote rather than in the header information of the article.
Authors may use the Acknowledgements section of their paper to further clarify if some or all of the work was conducted at one or more different institutions.
Our “How to” videos below help you carry out research whether your submitting a paper or carrying out reviews.
How to submit your journal article
Submitting your review report
How to create an account on our submission system
Updating your account on our submission system
IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with a number of institutions in Sweden to enable a transition towards open access publishing.
Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.
What’s included?
• Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research papers, Focus Collection, letters and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B, C and D in the title list of eligible journals
Please note
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub.
Discover the impact of the agreement so far through the papers published by eligible authors here.
Eligible institutions
BIBSAM Consortium:
European Spallation Source ERIC
Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.
IOP Publishing has a transformative agreement with the Max Planck Society to enable a transition to open access publishing.
Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at Max Planck Institutes at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.
What’s included?
- Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
- Research papers, Focus Collections, letters and reviews.
- This agreement includes journals in List A, B, C and D. Click here for a list of eligible journals.
Please note
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub.
For more information, please contact the Max Planck Society at lic.contact@mpdl.mpg.de, or visit the Max Planck web page here – https://www.mpdl.mpg.de/en/463
Celebratory collection
Discover high impact papers published through the Max Planck agreement here.
IOP Publishing produces high-value scientific information for the scholarly community and as all of our content is published online, we are acutely aware of the need to ensure permanent availability of, and access to, these resources. We therefore have an archiving policy in place through which we are committed to preserving our online content in archiving services.
All IOP Publishing online journals and ebooks are archived in CLOCKSS and Portico to ensure that these resources are preserved in the long term.
This page has now moved and you can view our full list of journals here
Every journal is different, and while the method of submission might be very similar, there may be different requirements for each journal. This could include the types of articles the journal accepts and any limits on word length. You can find all the instructions for our journals in the table below, along with links to their submission site and email address.
General advice about getting published, including how to structure an article can be found at Author guidelines for IOP journals.
View Fully Open Access Journals
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As the DOI remains constant, we recommend the inclusion of the DOI when citing the accepted manuscript. The exact syntax of the citation will differ between reference styles, but we suggest e.g.: Author, A, Author B, and Author C 2016 New J. Phys. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa0000
The DOI and metadata will be registered with Crossref and indexed by Google for discoverability. Relevant papers will also be indexed in PubMed. PubMed will class these articles as ‘ahead of print’ and will update their status once the final version of record is published.
Currently Web Of Science, SCOPUS and other services do not support accepted manuscripts, but if they decide to do this we will do the necessary work to allow them to index the relevant metadata.
