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For unpublished work or sources ICSAC cannot resolve via DOI. Provide the manuscript metadata; ICSAC reviews the PDF directly. Text-layer PDFs only — image-only scans cannot be reviewed.

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Already posted as a preprint? That’s fine.

If it’s on Zenodo or arXiv, the DOI route fetches it for you. A preprint on any other server (Preprints.org, bioRxiv, medRxiv, SSRN, Research Square, OSF, ChemRxiv and the rest) comes through this form: upload the PDF and give the preprint’s DOI below. The preprint stays where it is; on acceptance the Persistence article gets its own DOI under the Institute’s prefix, linked to it. A paper already published in a journal can’t be submitted.

If your manuscript is currently under review at another journal, do not submit it here. Most journals treat any prior open deposit as prior publication and will withdraw your submission. Wait for the journal’s decision first.

Submitter

Name (prepopulated from ORCID — editable for citation)

This is how we address you in correspondence. Edit if you cite under a different form than your ORCID record name.

Used for the confirmation and result emails. Not displayed publicly.

ORCID iD (verified)

Set from your ORCID sign-in. To submit under a different ORCID, sign out and sign back in with that account.

Authors

List every author of the manuscript in order. Row 1 pre-populates from the submitter info above; edit it if the submitter is a corresponding author rather than the first author. Affiliation is optional but encouraged.

Manuscript

Paper title

Abstract

50–5000 characters.

Keywords

Comma- or semicolon-separated. If your paper is accepted they appear on its page.

Resource type

Original work date

When the manuscript was completed. Defaults to today; edit to the actual date if different.

Subject / discipline (optional)

Funding (optional)

Free-text acknowledgements. Grant numbers welcome.

Preprint (if posted)

Preprint DOI

If this manuscript is posted as a preprint on any server, its DOI (or arXiv ID). It is checked when you submit: the DOI of a paper already published in a journal is refused.

Related identifiers (optional)

Prior preprints, datasets, supplementary material, or earlier versions. Each row has an identifier (DOI, arXiv ID, URL) and a relation type (e.g. "is supplement to", "is previous version of").

Code and data

ICSAC doesn’t host code or data. If your paper says code or data is available, keep it somewhere public of your choosing (GitHub, Zenodo, Harvard Dataverse or similar) and link it here; your paper’s page will show the link as hosted by you. A paper that says it has code or data but gives no link is returned for revision before review.

Does your paper say code or data is available? Yes No

License & deposit

License

Manuscript (PDF, ≤100 MB)

I authorize ICSAC, on acceptance, to register a DOI for this manuscript under the Institute's own prefix, to publish it in Persistence, the Institute's journal, online at icsacinstitute.org and in the annual print and ebook edition where included, and to archive it in the ICSAC Zenodo community under the Institute's account. Authorship is linked to me via my ORCID; the record is open-access under the license selected above.

I confirm this manuscript has no DOI other than the preprint DOI given above (if any), has not been published in a journal, and is not currently under review at another journal.

I confirm that any conflicts of interest relevant to this work are disclosed in the manuscript.

Revised version

Is this a revised version of a paper ICSAC returned? Yes No

Before you submit

I have read how ICSAC reviews and publishes: my manuscript is read by a panel of reviewers and the decision is made by the curation team; every message after the receipt is a decision or a question from the curation team; the review record is published alongside an accepted paper; there are no fees at any stage; and if the paper is accepted I will receive the email previewed below and have seven days to respond before publication proceeds. I have read the terms and how the journal works.

Preview the acceptance email

This is the email you would receive if the paper is accepted. The parts in brackets are filled in for your paper.

Subject: ICSAC review complete — accepted — [your submission ID]

[Your name],

Your manuscript has been accepted for publication by the Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing.

Submission ID: [ID]
Title: [title]
Received: [date]
Decision: [date] — accepted

Attached are the panel report and the review-quality audit. Your paper was read in two rounds by a panel of independent reviewers (the report lists every pass and its scores), and the panel itself was audited for rubric adherence, consistency, specificity, tone and its use of the verification evidence (the citation checks and the code package digest). You are reading the same record we publish.

[A note from the curation team about your paper.]

Your response, by [date, seven days after this email]

One action is needed from you.

Open your personal link to approve publication. The page asks you to sign in with the ORCID iD you submitted with; the link and that sign-in together are your signature. There you can also tick anything you would rather we did not do — social media, print or broadcast advertising, newsletters, website features, or the annual print and ebook edition of Persistence — each all-or-nothing; leave a note for the curation team; ask us to hold and correct something; or withdraw:

[your personal response link]

If we have not heard from you by [the date], we proceed with publication. After the DOI is registered the record is permanent and changes are made by published correction. If the page does not work for you, email help@icsacinstitute.org with your submission ID in the subject line.

What happens next

We register a DOI for your paper under the institute's own prefix and publish it in Persistence, the institute's journal, online first at icsacinstitute.org, with the panel's open review record alongside it. You will receive a second email with the DOI and the links once both are live. Nothing is needed from you.
Each volume of Persistence is also printed as an annual paperback and ebook, sold through the major retailers, the channels libraries and universities buy from, and icsacinstitute.org, and every paper in the volume is eligible for that edition. If yours is included you will hear from us 60 to 120 days before the edition's publication date with a short intent-to-publish form (a headshot, a short biography). We do not answer questions about inclusion before then, so add info@icsacinstitute.org and help@icsacinstitute.org to your contacts.
[What the check of your reference list found.]

Terms of publication

These are the terms you accepted at submission, restated so nothing is a surprise:

You keep the copyright. The paper is published under the licence you chose; the institute holds a non-exclusive licence to publish it. You may post or republish your PDF anywhere.
The paper is published in Persistence online under that licence, and appears under the same licence in the annual print and ebook edition if included. The edition is sold as a paperback and ebook; authors pay nothing and are paid nothing, and there are no free, discounted, draft, or author copies. Credential holders will receive a member discount on copies.
We may, but do not promise to, announce and promote your paper on the institute's website, social media, newsletters, and print or broadcast materials, at no cost to you. You can exclude any of these, or the annual print and ebook edition of Persistence, below on this form or on your response page.
You will be listed as [your name as it will appear, with affiliation if given].
[Your preprint, if any, keeps its own DOI and the two records are linked.]

About this review

[What the blind-review preprocessing removed from your manuscript before the panel read it, and where to write if you want to contest it.]

If you would tell one colleague about this process, we would be glad of it. If you write a few words about the process in the notes box on your response page and tick the box beneath it, we may quote them, with your name, when we describe the institute to other independent researchers.

— ICSAC
Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing

If the paper is accepted — optional

Everything below is at no cost to you and unticked allows it. Tick what you would rather we did not do; you can change any of it on your response page after acceptance.

Do not announce my paper on social mediaAll platforms, at no cost to you. Unticked, we announce new papers with the title, author name and link. Do not use my paper in print materials, broadcast or paid advertisingFlyers, posters, conference materials, podcast or video mentions, paid placements. The Institute pays for all of it. Do not include my paper in newsletters or email announcementsMentions in the Institute's newsletters to subscribers. Do not feature my paper on the website beyond its own record pageHomepage or news items about the paper. The record page itself is part of publication. Do not include my paper in the annual print and ebook edition of PersistenceThe Institute's yearly paperback and ebook of the journal, at no cost to you. Ticked, the paper stays online-only.