When your paper has successfully undergone review (and revision), the final step is having it accepted for publication. For this step, you will be required to resubmit the final, revised, and fully formatted copy of your paper. The formatting guidelines for accepted papers can be found at https://www.informingscience.org/Uploads/JournalFormat.dotx. This document is a MS Word template that contains the Style Set for publications and the instructions for applying these styles to your document. If you do not use MS Word, just print the document and follow its instructions.

Papers published in our journals follow the APA Guidelines, 7th edition and a summary of these guidelines can be found at http://help.informingscience.org/APA/

Because the contents of a paper may shift during formatting, make figures so they can be moved and/or resized easily. This can best be done by saving a figure as a picture.

After the paper has been accepted, in addition to adding the name, affiliation, city, and country for each author at the beginning of the paper, end the paper with a Biography section that contains a brief paragraph or two about each author. Please insert a head-and-shoulders photo of the author beside the biographical information. Our publisher needs to deal with hundreds of papers, so we ask authors to show exactly how they want their names and affiliations listed as well as which email address that want shown.

AUTHOR PHOTOS: We ask for head-and-shoulder photos of authors because we are building a family of scholars. While it is rare, we understand that for religious reasons an author may prefer not to show a photo without a veil. This is permissible. In the worst case, upload a generic silhouette as the author photo. 

Once the paper is accepted PENDING REVISION, the author is asked to provide a fully formatted version. When satisfied that the paper meets Informing Science standards, the Editor will send it to the Informing Science publisher who will do the final formatting and quality control. 

If the corresponding author prefers, the author can pay a formatting fee at http://Pay.InformingScience.org  and we will hire an ISI member to format (not copy edit) whose content is otherwise fine with the editor. This service is provided for those with a huge research budget and not much time. The formatting fee is $250. (All members of the review board are volunteers. We have no volunteers willing to re-format papers.)

Articles appear online as soon as the publisher completes final formatting and quality assurance.