Submission Guide

What checks do manuscripts undergo?

All manuscripts uploaded to RNfinity undergo a basic screening process for offensive and/or non-scientific content and for material that might pose a health risk. Manuscripts are not certified by peer review before being posted online. We reserve the right to decline to post any preprint for any reason. Manuscripts are not typeset before being posted online. The author’s manuscript article is either submitted as, or automatically converted into, a PDF file.

What form are manuscripts submitted in?

Manuscripts files are submitted as a single word file which contains all parts of the manuscript including figures and tables.

Ethics and reporting.

Authors must declare at submission that all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, all necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained, all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms archived. Any clinical trials described should be registered with an internationally recognized trial registry and the trial ID included in the manuscript. Authors must include a competing interest statement including explicit acknowledgment of whether the authors or their institutions received any payments or services in the past 36 months from a third party that could be perceived to influence, or give the appearance of potentially influencing, the submitted work. Authors must also provide a funding statement with details of all funding that supported the work presented, including explicit acknowledgment of whether the authors or their institutions at any time received payment or services from a third party for any aspect of the submitted work.

Manuscript Revisions

Authors are free to submit a revised version of a manuscript at any time (prior to acceptance at a journal) by sending an email to rnfinity.com. The new version will use the same DOI as the original submission, which also will remain accessible on the site.

Manuscript Withdrawals

Authors may request to have their manuscript marked as “Withdrawn” if they no longer stand by their findings/conclusions or acknowledge fundamental errors in the manuscript. In these cases, a statement explaining the reason for the withdrawal is posted on the manuscript page to which the DOI defaults.

Submission guide- Steps:

1) In order to register you need to provide name, username, log on email and password. The log on email can be different to your author email which will be displayed publicly next your articles. If you wish to request monetisation for your articles, then select this and provide your PayPal email. Your login and PayPal emails kept private if you have used different emails to your author email. Only one author (the submitting author) can claim revenue per article on behalf of all the authors, in accordance to whatever agreement has been made between the authors.

2) Register with the website. Click on the orange icon in the header

3) You can provide institution, address and additional social media links if you wish this is optional (for LinkedIn, Facebook, twitter, Instagram) and orcid ID, if you have one, and they will be available for others to connect to, if you wish, when you publish an article with your collaborators.

4) Once you submit a registration form, an activation link will be sent to your email and you will need to click on this link to activate to your registration and access the members area of the website, which will be available to you each time.

5) Once you are logged in, you can start to submit articles. By submitting an article, you are declaring that this is your won original work for which you own the copyright and you do wo with the approval of all the authors. In submitting the article, you will retain copyright of your work, but you are providing Research Infinity with permission to perpetually publish your work.

6) Click on submit from the header menu. On this page you can see the research ethics statement and return to this submission guide.

7) Click on – Click to Submit!

8) As the submitting author your name and details will auto- populate and by default your name will appear as the first author.

9) If there are additional authors, then click to add authors in the order you wish them to appear. Likewise, you can add their email, institution and optional social media links (with their permission). The authors will appear at the bottom of the page and their details can subsequently be edited or deleted.

10) Press next to navigate the next steps. At end stage if you have made a mistake, you can press previous to return to an earlier step.

11) You will need to select a category and subcategory for your article form the drop-down menu.

12) Add a title.

13) Add a clinical trial ID (if you have one), if not then you can enter 0.

14) Copy or type an abstract into the box provided.

15) Click next to proceed to the next step.

16) Click yes or no in response to the declarations

17) Make a conflict of interest statement if any or type n/a if none.

18) Provide a data availability or funding statement or type n/a if not applicable.

19) Select a copyright attribute for your article, which essentially can be one of the creative common licenses, CC0 – no copyright ie in the public domain or, no reuse resubmission where you retain full copyright.

20) Upload a word file for the entire manuscript.

21) Upload a video abstract (optional, size limit 10MB).

22) Click that all ethical guidelines were followed.

23) Generate the article PDF and click to submit it.

24) You will receive an email confirming submission (check your spam folder as well.

25) After review, which typically takes 48-72 hours, you article will be published, and you will receive an email confirming this.

26) You can log in to the members area to see your article and the individual and total view counts. You can also edit your profile to change your password form here.

27) You can see how much income your article has generated in the payouts section if you have selected monetisation. You can click on the payout tab to request revenue by paypal transfer if there are funds available.

28) Registering also allows you to comment or rate any articles. When you write a comment your username will appear next to the comment

29) If you have any further questions then enquire at info@rnfinity.com.