If you are considering submitting your manuscript to an open access journal we have 5 tips to help increase the prospects of receiving a successful peer review report.

We recently questioned our peer reviewers and asked them to share with us their recommendations. Here's what they told us:

1. Ensure reasoning and methodology is sound and consider having an assessment done by a colleague before submitting your manuscript

2. Ensure compliance with all applicable ethical requirements and consider using a plagiarism scanning tool to avoid unintended re-use of copyrighted material

3. If English is not your first language consider having the manuscript edited by a native speaker

4. Make sure the manuscript complies with the journal's formatting requirements

5. Make sure that files are uncorrupted and can be opened

To learn more about how to prepare your manuscript for submission please visit our manuscript preparation page.

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