Open Access
Articles can be made Open Access at the time of online publication, for a charge of 2700€. Forum articles, Editorials and Mini-Reviews can be made Open Access for €1,700. Open Access articles are free to view at the point of publication and also made available on PubMed Central subject to CC-BY 4.0.
Colour Figures
Journal guidelines stipulate that illustrations will not be published in colour unless the cost of reproducing them is covered by the authors. The cost of publishing one page in colour in print is 1100€.
Another option available to authors is to publish figures in black and white in the paper version of the journal and in colour in the electronic version. The cost for this is 300€ for a single figure, 400€ for two figures, 500€ for three figures etc.
Excess Page Charges
Authors are requested to meet our Journal requirements in terms of article length set out in the Instructions to Authors.
If the author is unable to comply, an excess page charge of 350€ per page is applied for each page over six journal pages for Original articles and 8 journal pages for State of the Art articles. Authors may include excess tables and figures as online Supplementary Data (see below).
Supplementary Data
Supplementary material (additional text, tables and figures) can be submitted into Supplementary Data, which is published alongside the online PDF of the article. Please note, this material should be carefully prepared, as it will not be copyedited or proofread by IJTLD staff. There is a charge of €275 per 10 pp to host Supplementary Data.
The material should be submitted in PDF format at the time the original version of the manuscript is submitted for peer review, clearly labelled Supplementary Data. If referred to in the body text, figures/tables should be labelled as Figure S1, or Table S1 etc.