Submission guidelines | nature cardiovascular research

When submitting your manuscript, please read the following guidelines, which will help you through the submission and publication process. 1 – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE INITIAL SUBMISSION

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 – PREPARING YOUR MATERIAL FOR INITIAL SUBMISSION YOU ARE NOW READY TO SUBMIT

YOUR MANUSCRIPT Click ‘Submit manuscript’ and you will be taken to our online submission system, where you can upload the required files and check on the status of your manuscript after

submission. You will need to log in; if you do not have an account, you will be able to register for one when you submit. Submit manuscript

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3 – EDITORIAL PROCESS, PEER REVIEW, APPEALS & TRANSFERS Once you have

submitted your manuscript, it goes through our editorial process. If your manuscript is sent out for peer review, you will receive an email asking you to read and sign our Editorial

Policies. To appeal against a decision, or transfer your submission to another journal – Appeals and Transfers.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 – ACCEPTANCE IN PRINCIPLE & FORMATTING If your article is accepted for

publication (known as Acceptance in Principle), you will need to follow the formatting guidelines. Before final acceptance, we request that corresponding authors of accepted papers link

their Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) to their manuscript tracking system account – ORCID instructions.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 – PRODUCTION & PUBLICATION Once your manuscript is formally accepted, it

is sent to Production to prepare for publication – production process.