Why publish in the International Journal of Astrobiology?
- Broad range of topics: published work covers topics across Astrobiology, such as cosmic prebiotic chemistry, planetary evolution, extremophile biology, Mars as an abode of life, life detection in our solar system and beyond, as well as societal and educational aspects of astrobiology
- No page charges or length restrictions
- Rapid publication: your article will be published online as soon as it is accepted
- State-of-the-art online hosting including forward reference linking and an inbuilt, easily-navigable HTML article viewing window with media enhancements to text-based content
- Responsive web page design: all pages scale and adjust according to the screen size and resolution of the device on which the reader is viewing the site
- Cambridge-designed journal display templates providing polished paper presentation and meta-data quality checks to improve article discoverability
- High quality copy-editing
- Authors retain copyright of their work
Open Access
Cambridge Open option available: anyone in the world with an internet connection will be able to access your open access article. Open Access articles published in the International Journal of Astrobiology are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication with the right to re-distribute and re-use the article under the terms of a Creative Commons license.
Cambridge University Press has made a number of Read and Publish agreements to support Open Access publishing for publicly financed research articles. Authors publishing in IJA may have their Article Processing Charges (APCs) covered under one of these deals. To find out if you are eligible please see our Read and Publish deals page for more information.
For an overview on Open Access (OA) see the Cambridge University Press OA pages.
For more information on manuscript preparation, see the Instructions for Contributors
To submit your paper go to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/submit_ija