Submitting to IOP Publishing journals
What we hold as IOP Publishing’s house rules, and where each one was read. A journal’s own guide for authors always comes first: a rule here is used only where that guide is silent.
Journals
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House rules on record
1 read on IOP Publishing’s own pages
Last read
each rule carries its own date
Read on IOP Publishing’s own author pages
Verified: IOP Publishing states these for its journals. Only rules like these can count as a blocker in a check, and a journal’s own guide still comes first.
Declared at submission
Data availability
Verified
Read on IOP Publishing: Data availability policy, 16 September 2026.
“The journal requires authors to include a data availability statement in their article.”
Needs verification
Held without a link to where it was read, or not read for more than a year. Shown so you can check it against the journal’s guide; never a blocker.
Reference format at submission
Any consistent format is accepted
Needs verification
No link to where this was read is on record.
“authors can use any reference system providing it is sensible and consistent throughout the paper”
What the journal decides, not IOP Publishing
These vary between IOP Publishing journals, so we do not hold a house value for them. Your journal’s own guide for authors is where to look.
Reference style · Citation format · Abstract · Abstract length · Keywords, fewest · Keywords, most · Separate title page · Line numbering · Figure formats · Figure resolution, floor · Line art resolution · Greyscale resolution · Colour resolution · Cover letter · Figures in the manuscript
Journals in this family
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering · Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology · Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics · Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability · Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical · Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics · International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering · Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties · Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express · Machine Learning: Science and Technology
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