PubSci:SubmissionGuide

This guide walks through submitting a paper to PubSci. Read PubSci:ContentPolicy before submitting.

You need a [[1]] account to submit. If you do not have one, create it at pharmacopedia.wiki and return here. Any active Pharmacopedia account can submit immediately -- there is no minimum account age for authorship.

On your first visit to PubSci, you will register a pen name: a permanent, public handle (2-40 characters: letters, numbers, spaces, hyphens, underscores, apostrophes, and periods; e.g. "QuietMachine", "Dr. M. O'Brien", "Echo Lab"). Your pen name is displayed on everything you author and every review you write. It is immutable -- choose carefully. Your real identity behind your pen name is not publicly accessible.

Navigate to Special:Submit. The form has the following sections.

The full title of your paper. No length limit, but titles longer than 150 characters may be truncated in display contexts.

Plain text. Soft cap 3,000 characters; hard cap 4,000. The abstract is used in DOI metadata, in the paper header, and in the "Discuss this paper" deep link. Write it to stand alone.

Select one:

Type	When to use
Original Research	New empirical findings from your own study or experiment
Case Report	A single clinical or observational case
Case Series	Multiple cases with a common theme
Replication Study	An attempt to replicate a prior finding
Systematic Review	Comprehensive structured review of a body of literature
Narrative Review	Selective review synthesizing a topic
Meta-Analysis	Statistical combination of results across studies
Methods / Technical Note	A new method, protocol, or technical contribution
Hypothesis	A testable hypothesis or theoretical proposal
Thought Piece	An argument, opinion, or philosophical position
Position Paper	A formal statement of position on a topic or issue
Commentary	A response to or commentary on a specific prior publication
Letter	A short communication, typically under 1,000 words

Select up to 5 field tags from the controlled vocabulary. Tags are used for discovery and filtering. If none fit well, use "Other" and email content@pubsci.io to request a new tag.

Available tags: Medicine & Health, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science, Social Sciences, Humanities, Philosophy, Pharmacology, Environmental Sciences, Interdisciplinary, Other.

Enter your paper in wikitext or Markdown. Markdown is auto-converted to wikitext on submission. A preview is available before you confirm.

Use <ref> tags for inline citations. A <references/> section is appended automatically at the end of the paper.

Example citation:

<ref>Smith J, Jones A. Title of paper. ''Journal Name''. 2024;10(2):45-52. doi:10.1234/example</ref>

Your pen name is pre-filled as the first author. To add co-authors:

• Enter their PubSci pen name. They must already have a PubSci account.
• Each co-author receives a confirmation request. They must confirm via their own PubSci session before or after publication (depending on the confirmation policy you select below).
• You may also add institutional handles (e.g. "Pharmacopedia Editorial") if you are publishing on behalf of an institution.

Author list order is set at submission and locked at publication.

If you have added co-authors, choose one:

• Require all confirmations before publishing. The paper stays in draft until every co-author confirms. There is no automatic timeout; you can withdraw and re-submit as sole author at any time.
• Publish after 7-day timeout. The paper publishes once all co-authors confirm, or automatically after 7 days with a "Pending co-author confirmation" notice for those who have not yet responded. The notice clears per-author as they confirm.

All disclosure fields are non-mandatory. They are informational for reviewers and readers; PubSci does not verify them.

• AI assistance. Check if AI tools assisted in generating text, figures, or analysis. Displayed in the paper header if checked.
• Null / negative results. Check if the paper reports a null or negative finding. PubSci actively encourages reporting null results. Papers flagged this way appear in null-results filters on the discovery page.
• Conflict of interest. Check and describe any relevant conflict of interest.

Choose how your authorship block appears:

• Pen name only. The paper's author block shows only your pen name. No other identity information appears.
• Include affiliation block. A free-text field appears where you may include your institution, credentials, real name, or any combination. This information appears in the paper header beneath your pen name. The choice is entirely yours.

Declare whether this is:

• Final publication (PubSci is the venue of record). This is the paper's primary and only publication.
• Preprint. This work has been simultaneously posted or submitted to another venue. Included in DOI metadata and displayed in the paper header. A preprint declaration does not restrict any PubSci functionality.

All submissions are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). You confirm at submission that you have the right to license the content under these terms and that you accept PubSci's Terms of Service and Content Policy.

1. PubSci assigns a PSI ID (PSI-YYYY-NNNN) immediately. This is your paper's stable internal identifier from this point forward.
2. Your paper enters a private draft state, visible only to you and admins.
3. Co-author confirmation requests are sent (if applicable).
4. Once all co-authors confirm (or the timeout elapses, depending on your policy), the paper publishes automatically.
5. On publication, PubSci registers a DOI via Zenodo. If registration is delayed, "DOI pending" appears in the paper header until the DOI is assigned. The PSI ID is your stable identifier in the interim.
6. Your paper is immediately publicly visible at https://pubsci.io/wiki/Paper:PSI-YYYY-NNNN.
7. The review surface activates. Any signed-in PubSci user with a pen name can write a review.

Published papers cannot be edited in place. To update:

1. Submit a revised version via Special:Submit using your original PSI ID as the parent.
2. The revised version receives a new DOI.
3. The paper page updates to show the latest version; prior versions remain accessible at /v1, /v2, etc.
4. Reviews on prior versions are labeled "Written on v[N]" and remain visible.

Email content@pubsci.io to request a retraction notice. Retraction posts a "Retracted by author" banner on the paper. The paper and all associated reviews remain accessible. Retraction does not delete content.

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