Publication Fees

Instructions to Authors (PDF)

Authors who choose open-access will be assessed the article processing charge (APC) indicated in Table 1. Authors who do not choose open-access and whose research was supported by grants, special funds (including departmental and institutional), or contracts (including governmental) or whose research was done as part of their official duties (government or corporate, etc.) are required to pay the page charges noted in Table 1 (based on the number of typeset pages, including illustrations, in the article) and to sign the ASM copyright transfer agreement.

Authors are also charged a flat fee for posting supplemental material as an adjunct to their published article (exception: no fee is charged for supplemental material associated with fee-exempt papers).

If the research was not supported by any of the means described above, a request to waive the charges may be sent to the ASM Journals Department (e-mail, nlin@asmusa.org [after acceptance of the manuscript]). The request must include the manuscript control number assigned by ASM and indicate how the work was supported. Waivers apply only to page charges; responsibility for supplemental material fees remains with the author.

Minireviews, Commentaries, Editorials, Challenging Clinical Cases in Antimicrobial Resistance, Comment Letters to the Editor, and corrections are not subject to page charges. New-Data Letters to the Editor are subject to page charges.

All fees are subject to change without notice. Nonmember corresponding authors may join ASM to obtain discounts on publication fees. Former members who wish to renew their membership at the same level may do so online. However, to change your membership level, please contact customer service at Service@asmusa.org.

APCs permit immediate public access to both the preliminary accepted version and the copyedited, typeset version published in the online journal under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This option includes immediate open-access provided through NIH’s PubMed Central repository.

At the time of submission, authors should complete the Author Warranty and Provisional License to Publish, rather than the standard Copyright Transfer Agreement, if an article is to be published under the immediate open-access option (for example, one subject to the open-access policies of the Wellcome Trust, Research Councils UK, or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funding agencies).

TABLE 1 Publication fees^a

^aPublication fees do not apply to Minireviews, Commentaries, Editorials, Challenging Clinical Cases in Antimicrobial Resistance, Comment Letters to the Editor, or corrections. New-Data Letters to the Editor are subject to publication fees.

Color charges. There are no fees for color figures.

Author reprints and eprints. Reprints (in multiples of 100) and eprints (downloadable PDFs) may be purchased by all coauthors. Corresponding authors receive access to 10 free downloads of published PDFs. In addition to receiving the 10 free published PDF files, the corresponding authors of Minireviews may receive 100 free eprints of their contribution and the corresponding authors of Commentaries may receive 50 free eprints. Instructions for ordering gratis or additional reprints and eprints can be found in the billing notification e-mail sent to all corresponding authors. To order reprints postpublication, please follow the instructions on the Author Reprint Order Form. Please contact cjsreprints@cadmus.com with any questions.