 Hey, this is Gareth Dyke from Research Square Company answering those common questions that researchers often ask us about the writing and publishing process, and here's a very common one. How to submit a paper to a journal and what's the submission process? Depends upon the journal of course, depends upon the publisher of course, but by and large, across the international publishing industry, the process to submit a paper to a journal is broadly similar. The first thing you need to do is go to that journal's website and sign up, create an account on their online submission system. Most journals use similar online submission systems, editorial manager, manuscript central, open journal systems to name but a few, those are actually the three main ones. Sign up for an account, you might need to use your ORCID ID, perhaps you haven't got an ORCID ID yet, you can check out our other videos on how to get and why to use an ORCID ID, and then read the journal, aims and scopes and check in the online submission system for all of the different things that you need to make your article submission. A Word document or latex file of the original article, a separate file for each of the figures potentially, separate files for the tables, potentially a list of reviewers that you'd like to suggest, some reviewers that you'd like to deselect, people that you think are not going to be very favorable to your piece of work for whatever reason, and of course a cover letter, we've got other videos that you can check out, templates that you can have a look at, how to write an effective cover letter, this is one of the most important pieces of the submission process, and of course, if you have any issues or you need to ask any questions, then please do get in touch with our team at AJE, we would be delighted to help you with journal submission, thank you so much for listening.