Publication Policy

Fees and charges

What the journal charges, stated before you submit rather than after you are accepted.

Submission and publication charges

Submission fee
None. No fee is payable to submit a manuscript.
Article processing charge
None. No charge is payable on acceptance or publication.

No charge is ever a condition of assessment. Any change to the amounts above is published on this page before it takes effect, and is never applied retrospectively to a manuscript already under consideration.

Reader access

Where an individual article is published under a restricted access model, access may be obtained through one of the following:

PlanPriceIntervalDescription
Free reader0.00 USDmonthlyPublic open-access content only
Reader monthly9.99 USDmonthlySubscription access to eligible paid articles
Reader yearly99.00 USDyearlyAnnual access to eligible paid articles

Plans are configured by the publisher and are shown here as they are actually configured on this installation. Open-access articles are free to read and require no plan.

Waivers

No author is prevented from publishing here by inability to pay. A full waiver is available on request to the editorial office, decided without reference to the manuscript's assessment.