Submissions
The instructions on this page refer to Articles, Letters, Reviews and Progress. See here for Communications Arising instructions. For other types of submission, please see these separate guidelines.
We strongly advise you to read through the manuscript formatting guide, and online submissions guidelines before submitting your manuscript to Nature. If you are ready to submit, please proceed to our online submission system.
Presubmission enquiries
This section contains our online service for presubmission enquiries. Presubmission enquiries may be made before a manuscript is complete, or before it is in Nature style to determine whether it is likely to be of interest to the journal. Presubmission enquiries are provided purely as a service to authors and are not compulsory.
Online submissions
This section contains our general online service for submission and tracking of Articles, Letters and Brief Communications Arising, as well as instructions for submission if you have been asked to submit a revised version of your manuscript by a Nature editor. It also contains instructions for submitting corrections of published material. You must read the formatting guide before using this service, and when possible prepare your manuscript using our customised Nature Word template. If you submit online, which is advised, please do not also send a hard copy by post.
Final submissions
This section contains guidelines for preparing your final submission, and applies only if your Article or Letter has been accepted in principle for publication and you have been asked by the editor for the final version. Includes guidelines for the preparation of final text, figures, Supplementary Information and the downloadable forms needed for publication (including author checklist, competing interests, licence to publish, colour figures and reprints).
Information Sheets for Downloading
- Submitting a manuscript (pdf 59KB)
- Submitting a final version (after acceptance) (pdf 63KB)
- Producing production-quality artwork (after acceptance) (pdf 566KB)
- Author checklist (after acceptance) (pdf 47KB)
- Insights and supplements author checklist (after acceptance) (pdf 66KB)
See the full list of information sheets.
