eLife, the non-profit initiative inspired by research funders and led by scientists, is integrating new authoring tools into its submission system to give authors more choice about how they submit their work.
eLife aims to help scientists accelerate discovery by operating a platform for research communication that encourages and recognises the most responsible behaviours in science. eLife is now working with Overleaf, Manuscripts.app, PubRef and, most recently, Authorea, to allow authors to write and submit research to the journal as quickly and easily as possible.
Through the collaborative writing and publishing system Overleaf, authors can create, edit, and share scientific ideas online through the Overleaf platform. Overleaf allows authors to write in either a full LaTeX editor or Rich Text mode, if they prefer to use a more traditional word processing environment. They can easily collaborate with others through a Google Docs™-style, real-time collaborative environment and they can see their finished file composed automatically as they write - they write on the left and see their composed document on the right, based on the template they are using. The Overleaf platform will also be integrated into the eLife journal submission and review system, eJournalPress (EJPress), allowing authors to submit their completed manuscripts more easily.
eLife also commissioned Overleaf to create a custom open-source LaTeX template, which is available to download and use from the eLife website, and also available in the Overleaf gallery, which hosts templates, examples, and article preprints. The template allows authors to generate a paper in a similar format to the final PDF presented by the journal, giving them the ability to size their figures and an idea of how their completed paper will look if published.
eLife's most recent partnership with Authorea also aims to reduce the burden of submission. A new document editor for researchers, Authorea makes it easy to write research articles and to host these online or submit them to journals for publication.
eLife is now also planning to integrate two relatively new author-writing tools, Manuscripts.app and PubRef.org's Pipeline, into EJPress. The launch of Manuscripts.app was first featured as a 'guest experiment' on eLife Labs.
eLife's custom LaTeX template is available to download at https://submit.elifesciences.org/html/elife_author_instructions.html, and can be opened directly in Overleaf at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/elife-latex-template/csqxykvsnyxm.
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