Submitting Your Manuscript to PLoS Genetics

Are you ready to submit your manuscript? Please refer to our checklists below and then use our manuscript submission system.

When you submit your article to PLoS Genetics you will be asked to provide information in addition to the manuscript and related files. Please review the Author Guidelines, Editorial and Publishing Policies, and Figure and Table Guidelines; and then refer to this checklist to ensure that you have gathered all the relevant information, and that the manuscript is formatted appropriately.

Information needed prior to submission

• Have you read the license agreement and are you able to sign it on behalf of all of the authors?
• Have you discussed the publication fees with your co-authors? Publication fees are US$2200 per manuscript and will be billed upon acceptance (read the FAQ on publication fees). Editors and reviewers have no access to payment information, and hence inability to pay will not influence the decision to publish a paper.
• Have you prepared a statement indicating who funded the study, and the role of the funding agency in conducting the study and in preparing the manuscript? You will be asked to enter this into the relevant section of the submission form.
• Are all authors aware of and approve the submission of the manuscript, its content, authorship, and order of authorship?
• Do all authors agree to abide by established study guidelines (MIAME, CONSORT, STROBE, etc.)?
• Have you prepared a cover letter explaining why you consider this manuscript suitable for publication?
• Are related manuscripts by any of the authors submitted or in press elsewhere? If so, are you prepared to provide a copy of each to accompany your submission?
• Have you identified potential reviewers whose email addresses you can provide? Have you considered colleagues who may have a conflict of interest?
• Do you have the following information for all authors:
• First Name, Middle Names/Initials, Last Name
• Affiliations
• Work Telephone Numbers
• E-mail Addresses
• Competing Interests
• Funding Information
• Author Contributions

Requirements for manuscripts and supporting files

• Manuscript file in DOC or RTF format, prepared per the Author Guidelines. If you prepared your article using LaTeX, you may upload the file in PDF format for use during the review process only. If the article is accepted for publication, your .tex files and formatting information will be required as a zipped file. Please consult our LaTeX Guidelines for a list of what will be required.
• Title (no more than 150 characters) and Running Title (no more than 50 characters)
• Author Summary (no more than 200 words)
• Deposition of all appropriate datasets, images, and information in the relevant repositories or submission of undeposited data as supporting files
• Accession numbers for genes, proteins, mutants, diseases, etc. in parentheses after first use throughout the manuscript file
• Standard nomenclature used throughout the manuscript file
• Non-standard abbreviations defined in the text
• All figures and tables called out in the manuscript in proper order
• Use of PLoS style for references
• Tables at the end of the manuscript files in DOC or RTF format
• Original, high resolution figure files (> 300 dpi) uploaded as separate files in EPS or TIFF format. If any of your figures are under copyright, please notify the journal office. (Please read the Guidelines for Figure Preparation before submitting figures.)
• Any Supporting Information files should fall into one of the following categories: Dataset, Figure, Table, Text, Protocol, Audio, or Video. The numbered title and caption for each supporting information file should be entered into the appropriate fields in the online submission system.

Please use our manuscript submission system and contact plosgenetics [at] plos.org if you have any questions.