- Why Publish in Frontiers?
- Community and Publishing Fees
- Types of Articles Published in Frontiers
- Quick Submission Checklist
- General Manuscript Guidelines
- General Image and Table Guidelines
- How to Organize Your Frontiers Manuscript
- Download a Template Manuscript and Image Guidelines
- Submit your Article
Community and Publication Fees
Core Philosophy
Frontiers is dedicated to providing global access to the highest quality research papers. In order to achieve this, articles are first subjected to the peer review process and are then edited, published and evaluated in terms of their scientific excellence and their social relevance.
To enable open access to all articles, Frontiers has adopted an author-pay model as a starting point whereby authors or research sponsors cover the costs associated with the review and subsequent publication of their articles. Frontiers will strive to keep costs as low as possible to ensure that publication costs do not become an obstacle to publishing. Ultimately, Frontiers aims to provide a maximally subsidized publishing environment for Authors while maintaining the highest quality in scientific publishing and maintaining the awards system for Editors and Authors to recognize their contributions.
| (in EURO) | Community Fee | Frontiers Subsidy | Publishing Fee | Frontiers Subsidy | TotalFee |
| Author 2008 Fees | €400 | 100% | €1,600 | 25% | €1’200 |
| Editor 2008 Fees | €400 | 100% | €1,600 | 40% | €960 |
Additional €50 /page charge after 12 printed pages.
Community Fee
A Community Fee of €400 is payable on submission of any article. The Community Fee is fully subsidized by Frontiers Research Foundation for articles submitted by any Editors and Authors. The Community Fee adds to a pool of funds which is used in general to support the highest quality Frontiers Review Service and specifically to pay Chief and Associate Editors for their work on the articles, award prizes to Authors and Review Editors for articles that climb the tiers.
Publishing Fee
A Publishing Fee of €1'600 is the full charge to cover the costs associated with editing, publishing, archiving, and evaluation of the article as well as maintaining the most advanced Internet site in online publishing and supporting the Frontiers Academic Environment. The Publishing Fee in 2008 will be subsidized by 40% for all articles submitted by Frontiers Editors (who are the corresponding author on the article) and by 25% for articles submitted by any other Authors.
Unlike other journals, there are no extra hidden costs in Frontiers. For example, Frontiers does not charge for color figures which typically cost about $500-$1000 per figure in most subscription-based journals. Further, if your article is selected by the Frontiers Evaluation System to be published in a higher tier Frontiers journal, further publication costs will be borne by Frontiers.
Frontiers Publishing Grant - Waivers
Authors who can demonstrate their inability to bear the publication costs may apply to the Frontiers Research Foundation for a Frontiers Publishing Grant, which may cover all or part of the Community and Publishing Fees.
What the Fees Cover
- Frontiers maintains the most advanced internet sites in on-line publishing and strives to continuously develop new technologies and services to serve you better.
- Frontiers awards our Field Chief Editors, Specialty Chief Editors and Associate Editors for their collaboration and effort on each article.
- Frontiers also provides numerous benefits and awards to our Associate and Review Editors to acknowledge their hard work in helping your article to reach a gold standard.
- Frontiers dedicates a substantial amount of the fees for the Frontiers Recognition System to reward successful authors.
- Frontiers covers the publishing costs of tier-rising articles.
- Frontiers pays highly qualified professional Copy Editors to provide you with the highest quality article.
- Frontiers pays professional Graphic and Publishing Editors to format your article and produce the highest quality html and pdf article.
- Frontiers pays expert Informatics Editors to publish your article in the internet as well as to advertise and link your article to the most appropriate sites in order to maximize the impact of your article in strategic circles.
- Frontiers submits your article to citation tracking internet sites such as Thomas ISI, Google Scholar, MicroScholar, etc so that the citation impact of your article can be tracked fully.
- Frontiers pays XML editors to make your article PubMed compatible and submits your article to PubMed for indexing.
- Frontiers maintains an editorial staff and IT staff dedicated to supporting your publishing needs.
- Frontiers provides the highest possible secure servers and server technology for the electronic publication of your articles.
- Frontiers promotes free dissemination of research and subsidizes publishing costs for those researchers who cannot afford the publishing costs.