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 market research or surveys, qualitative and observational studies, empirical, scientific or clinical research. Null and negative findings and reanalysis of previous studies leading to new results, as well as confirmatory results, are encouraged.

Essays are analytic or interpretive compositions on a single topic. This could include articles outlining an argument or personal point of view.

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.

Brief Reports are small, often preliminary studies, that contain only essential references, and minimal tables and figures, placing full attention on empirical methods, results and data analysis, and the implications of those results. Brief Reports focus on issues of methodology and observation.

Method Articles describe new experimental, observational, or computational methods 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.

Study Protocols describe in detail any study design, including (but not limited to) experimental design of basic and applied research, systematic reviews, or protocols defining research questions and empirical methods. 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 are also 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.

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

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.

Systematic Reviews in the social sciences should deal with a clearly formulated question and use systematic and explicit methods to identify, select, and critically assess the relevant research.

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