Guidelines for Article Preparation for Submission

Submissions to Open Research Europe must have at least one author who is involved in an ongoing or finished Horizon 2020 project and articles must be a result of that project. Please review the details of ORE's post-publication peer-review model and our policies before you submit.

Articles can be submitted as Word (DOC or DOCX) or rich text format (RTF) files. For LaTeX, please upload a ZIP file of the project that includes the PDF. Other types of files are also accepted. If you have any questions about suitable file formats, please email us.

Research Articles should present original findings, such as the results of basic and translational research, clinical and epidemiologic studies, or clinical trials, as well as qualitative and observational research. Null and negative findings, as well as re-analyses and replications of previous studies leading to new results are all encouraged.

Brief Reports include single-finding papers that can be reported with one or two illustrations (figures/tables), descriptions of unexpected observations, and lab protocols.

Data Notes are brief descriptions of scientific datasets that promote the potential reuse of research data and include details of why and how the data were created; they do not include any analyses or conclusions.

Method Articles describe new experimental, statistical, or computational methods, or tests/procedures in basic, translational or applied research, and should have been well tested. This includes new study methods, substantive modifications to existing methods or innovative applications of existing methods to new models or research questions. We welcome technical articles that describe tools that facilitate the design or performance of experiments, provide data analysis features or assist medical treatment such as drug delivery devices.

A Software Tool Article should include the rationale for the development of the tool and details of the code used for its construction. The article should provide examples of suitable input data sets and include an example of the output that can be expected from the tool and how this output should be interpreted.

Study Protocols describe in detail any study design, including (but not limited to) experimental design of basic, translational and applied research, clinical trials or systematic reviews. All protocols for randomised clinical trials must be registered and follow the SPIRIT guidelines. Study pre-protocols (i.e. discussing provisional study designs) may also be submitted and will be clearly labelled as such when published. Study Protocols for pilot and feasibility studies may also be considered.

Registered Reports are a form of empirical article in which the methods and proposed analyses are published and reviewed prior to research being conducted. This format seeks to neutralise a variety of inappropriate research practices, including inadequate statistical power, and selective reporting of results. These articles are denoted by a Registered Report label.

Reviews should provide a balanced and comprehensive overview of the latest discoveries in a particular subject area.

Systematic Reviews should usually be based on medical interventions or animal model studies. Systematic Reviews should deal with a clearly formulated question and use systematic and explicit methods to identify, select, and critically assess the relevant research. Systematic Reviews should be written following the PRISMA reporting guidelines.

Clinical Practice Articles describe case series (i.e. group or series of case reports involving patients who were given similar treatment), but should not be based on a single case (single cases are published as Case Reports).

A medical Case Report should be original and provide adequate detail of a single patient case. It does not need to describe an especially novel or unusual case as there is benefit from collecting details of many standard cases.

Case Studies are a process or record of research into the development of a person, group or situation over a period of time. They are an empirical inquiry that investigate research application through real-life context or imagined scenarios A description of a legal case or a hypothetical case study used as a teaching exercise would also fit into this category.