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Guidelines for authors

What to prepare, where to deposit it, and how to request open peer review.

Choose a collection

  • CONTINUUM Preprints — Share your work the day it is ready.Screened, not peer reviewed
  • CONTINUUM Proceedings — Permanent, citable homes for conference papers.Reviewed by the event organisers
  • CONTINUUM Books — Monographs, textbooks and theses, free to read.Checked for completeness and licensing
  • CONTINUUM Research Archive — The long-term home for everything behind the paper.Preserved with checksums and version history
  • CONTINUUM Publishing — Open peer review, then a validated version of record.Open peer review

Not sure? Post a preprint first. You can request peer review for it later without losing its DOI or its history.

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What to prepare

Preprints

  • A complete manuscript as PDF (LaTeX source optional)
  • Abstract of 150–250 words and 3–8 keywords
  • All authors listed, with ORCID iDs where available
  • Licence confirmed (CC BY 4.0 by default)

Proceedings

  • An accepted paper from an event hosted in AEX CONTINUUM
  • Or, for organisers: event details, ISBN request and the accepted-paper list
  • Camera-ready PDF for each paper
  • Review process statement for the event

Books

  • Complete manuscript as PDF; EPUB or HTML optional
  • Table of contents and chapter page ranges
  • Permissions for third-party material
  • Licence (CC BY, CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC)

Research Archive

  • Files with a README describing contents and format
  • Licence (CC BY or CC0 for data; an OSI licence for software)
  • Links to related papers or books
  • No personal or sensitive data without safeguards

Publishing

  • Everything required for a preprint
  • Anonymous or signed reports: your choice
  • Suggested and excluded reviewers (optional)
  • Data, code and declarations statements

Requesting peer review

Any preprint, book or archive record can be put forward for peer review through CONTINUUM Publishing. Choose Publishing when you submit, or use Request peer review on a record you own.

  1. 1Request · Day 0Choose Publishing when you submit, or request review for a preprint or archive record you have already posted.
  2. 2Screening · Within 3 daysA short administrative check for scope, authorship, licence and files. No judgement on novelty or impact.
  3. 3Open review · Target 28 daysAt least three independent reviewers are invited. Each one publishes a report with one of three outcomes.
  4. 4Respond & revise · At your paceAnswer every report publicly and post a new version. Reviewers can update their assessment.
  5. 5Outcome · On approvalThe article is labelled Peer reviewed once reviewers approve it. No editor decides; the reports do.

Read the peer-review policy for how outcomes are determined.

Manuscript templates

Optional. A single clear PDF is enough for any collection.

  • LaTeX template

    Document class aexcontinuum.cls, logo package, starter main.tex and references.bib. Build with latexmk.

    Download 25 KB · .zip

  • Word template

    Styles for headings, captions, equations, theorems, references and the title block.

    Download 237 KB · .dotx

  • Word example document

    The same content as an ordinary document, to read or edit directly.

    Download 237 KB · .docx

  • Sample PDF

    What the LaTeX template produces: two columns, figures, tables and algorithms.

    Download 258 KB · .pdf

Submission checklist

  • The work is original and you have the right to share it under the chosen licence.
  • All authors have approved the deposit and their details are correct.
  • Abstract is 150–250 words; 3–8 keywords are provided.
  • Figures are readable in greyscale and have captions; tables use clear headings.
  • Experimental results report variance across runs and the compute used.
  • Code and data availability are stated; third-party material has permission.
  • Competing interests, funding and author contributions are declared.
  • Use of generative-AI tools in preparing the work is disclosed.

After you submit

Deposits are screened and, once accepted, published with a DOI. You can post new versions at any time; each keeps its own DOI. Corrections and withdrawals follow the versions policy. Everything is published under CC BY 4.0 unless you choose another permitted licence, and you keep your copyright.