This page contains information about fees that may be incurred when you publish in this journal.
Articles published using an open access license or with color images in the printed version of the journal may incur fees, as explained below.
Article processing charges (APCs)
This is an open access journal in which all research articles are published as Gold Open Access under a Creative Commons licence. Authors of non-research articles have options to make their articles open access if they choose, but by default non-research articles are not published Gold Open Access and no fee is required.
In many cases Gold Open Access articles are supported by institutional agreements. Authors not covered by such an agreement may have funding from their funding body or institution to pay an article processing charge (APC). However multiple other routes to funding Gold Open Access also exist, including equity initiatives and APC waivers and discounts, in order to ensure that every author can publish in this journal. Please see this journal's open access options for full details.
Please see the table below for this journal’s APC fees.
Article Processing Charges for this journal
| Currency | APC |
|---|---|
| GBP (£) | 2320 |
| USD ($) | 3450 |
Colour print charges
There is no charge for publishing figures in colour in the online version of this journal. However, authors who choose to have figures in their article printed will need to pay a fee for colour printing. The fees for this journal are displayed below. If you request colour figures in the printed version of your article, you will be contacted by CCC-Rightslink who are acting on our behalf to collect Author Charges. Please follow their instructions in order to avoid any delay in the publication of your article.