General Information

Neither the team of authors (additions or deletions), nor their order of appearance can be changed after submission. The order in which the author names appear in the title page is binding for publication.

The manuscript can only be submitted by one of the authors and not by other staff members or assistants; all authors must be listed in the title page as well as in the respective fields in the submission system.

Joint first, last, or corresponding authorship by more than two authors is possible. When submitting your manuscript, please mention the equal contributions in the title page of your paper.

For revised submissions, you will be asked to provide two versions of your manuscript that will facilitate the peer review of your revision:

• an annotated version (highlighting changes made against the previous version) and a
• clean version.

Sometimes, authors are also asked to provide a response to reviewer comments (read the decision letter carefully if this is required or not).

Unsolicited resubmissions

Our editors carefully assess each submission and weigh their decisions. If they reject a manuscript without inviting resubmission, we consider this decision final. Unsolicited resubmissions (resubmissions after rejection without a previous invitation to resubmit) are therefore not allowed. They will not be considered for further evaluation but instead rejected immediately.

After the editorial office has prepared and sent the files of accepted manuscripts to production, the corresponding author will receive an e-mail request to select publication options (subscription or open access). After this process is concluded, technical production and typesetting start. Once finished, galley proofs will be provided, first to the corresponding author, and then to the Editorial office for final release to online publication.

Galley proofs

The authors should return the corrected proofs, with changes clearly marked, in electronic format within two days. Proofs need to be checked extremely carefully, as this will be the last stage at which corrections can be implemented before publication.

At galley proof stage, the author is entitled to formal corrections only. Substantial changes in content, e.g. new results, corrected values, title and authorship are not allowed. Author and name changes after acceptance of an article are subject to review and approval by the Editor-in-Chief and the publisher’s research integrity team.

No changes after online publication

For legal reasons, no changes are allowed for online articles after they appeared online.

Once the article is available online, any changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum/a Correction, which will be hyperlinked to the article. An Erratum is only warranted in cases of substantial content-related mistakes.

Peer review

The journal operates a single-blinded peer review process, where manuscripts sent to reviewers will no longer be anonymized or blinded, but reviewers’ names will continue to be unknown to authors. Once the selected reviewers accept our invitation to review, they thoroughly examine the manuscript and send their suggestions for possible changes and a recommendation on whether to publish, to the handling editor. The Editor-in-Chief, along with our Deputy Editors, makes the final decision regarding publication and informs the corresponding author.

Preprint sharing

In accordance with our publisher Springer, our journal accepts the sharing of preprints of primary research manuscripts on preprint servers.
Preprints should always be referenced and disclosed in a submission to our journal. Similarly, the submission to the journal should be credited in the preprint, and, whenever accepted, the reference to the journal should be added to the archive.

More information on this matter can be found on www.springer.com/gp/editorial-policies/preprint-sharing

Please visit the Springer Link section “Policy on the use of AI” within the editorial policies website.

Furthermore, you can consult a detailed statement published in European Radiology, Insights into Imaging, and European Radiology Experimental.