When your paper is accepted pending revision, you will be well advised to submit your revised paper already fully formatted. This saves time since a paper needs to be fully formatted before it can be accepted for publication. 

The formatting guidelines for accepted papers can be found here. 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 referencing standards found in the APA Guidelines, 7th edition. You can find a summary of these guidelines at http://help.informingscience.org/APA/

Figures. 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 high resolution picture of 300x300 dpi.

Un-Blinding Papers Accepted Pending Revision. Once the paper is accepted PENDING REVISION, you need to provide the next draft or drafts fully formatted. That is, after the paper has been accepted pending revision, in addition to adding the name, affiliation, city, and country of each author at the beginning of the paper, add to the end the paper a Biography section that contains a brief paragraph or two about each author. Insert a head-and-shoulders photo of the author beside the biographical information. Our publisher needs to deal with hundreds of papers, so we need authors to specify in their paper exactly how they want their names and affiliations to be listed as well as which email address that want shown.

When satisfied that the paper meets Informing Science standards for content and for format, the Editor will forward it to the Informing Science publisher who will conduct the final quality control. 

Prefer that another does the paper formatting for you? If the corresponding author prefers, the author can pay a formatting fee at http://Pay.Informingscience.org to have us hire an ISI member to format (not copy edit) the content that is the Editor otherwise finds acceptable for publication. This service is provided for those with a research budget and not much time. The formatting fee is $250. If your paper is accepted pending final formatting, let you editor know if you wish ISI to hire a formatter. The editor will note this in the “paper’s notes” and once you have paid the formatting fee, the publisher will notify your paper’s editor to accept the paper for publication. We have no volunteers to format papers, so we need to hire a formatter on your behalf.

Formatting is not the same as copy editing. The formatter does not restructure or clarify the paper’s wording. We encourage those who are not familiar with writing in journal English to take on a co-author or to hire their own copy editor competent to help with journal papers. Authors are encouraged to make their own arrangement prior to submitting their paper. Some universities provide these services for their researchers. ISI members can use the Peer Directory to locate ISI members fluent in English who are interested in becoming co-authors.