Submit in the format you already write, in minutes — you upload the manuscript, the system reads it and pre-fills the forms, and you verify rather than re-type. The one thing we insist on is the reproducibility package: it is what makes this journal what it is.
Formats
- Quarto, R Markdown or Jupyter — preferred. One executable source is the strongest reproducibility substrate and earns the full verification treatment.
- LaTeX — accepted. Code and data travel as a separate bundle.
- Word — accepted, at a lower reproducibility grade: without an executable source, an article cannot earn the top reproducibility badge.
There is no forced template. Write the paper the way your field reads it.
Submitting
Sign in at submit.fairpressjournals.com with your email address — a 6-digit code is emailed to you; there are no passwords. Upload the manuscript as a PDF plus either a bundle (zip) or a link to your repository — the executable source, code and data travel in the bundle or repository, not the manuscript file. The system scans the upload and pre-fills title, abstract, keywords, authors and more as clearly badged suggestions; anything it read, you check — anything it missed, you add.
What submission requires
- Article type — new method, applied, simulation, replication, null or negative finding, theory, or software.
- Title, abstract (up to 250 words), and 4–6 keywords.
- Authors — every author with name and affiliation; exactly one corresponding author with a reachable email address. ORCID iDs are optional at submission (validated if given) and required before acceptance.
- The reproducibility package. For new-method, applied and simulation
papers, submission requires the code's location (bundle or repository) and the
one entry-point command that regenerates the results — for example
Rscript run_all.Rormake. The environment specification, data details and determinism (seeds) are collected too and confirmed before acceptance. Replication, null-finding, theory and software papers provide the artifacts that exist for them, or a documented exemption with the protocol followed — see data & code availability. - Replications additionally name the target work (DOI) and the replication protocol.
- Disclosures — data and code availability, AI use, funding, competing interests, and ethics approval where applicable. Choice-based, adapted to the paper; an explicit "none" counts.
- Two attestations — that the reference list is real and checked, and that the entered metadata matches the manuscript.
What happens next
Incomplete submissions come back with the specific missing items named, not a generic rejection. Complete submissions enter review: disclosed AI-assisted assessment, a reviewer panel, reproduction of your results, and a decision read and signed by a named editor — the full process is in the peer-review policy. Review here is built to be fast; rather than quote projections, we publish our actual decision times on the journal page once enough decisions exist.
Fees
There is no submission fee. Publication is funded by an APC on acceptance, with need-blind waivers — amounts and rules on the fees & waivers page.
Stuck?
Write to contact@fairpressjournals.com — a founding editor reads it.