Working with AspireNexa
Everything you need to know before we begin — what to provide, how we protect your work, and the standards we hold ourselves and our authors to.
Author guidelines
To process your manuscript smoothly, please provide the following details and files alongside your draft:
- Authors’ details — department, affiliation, email, and ORCID iD (optional)
- Declaration statements
- Authors’ contributions (selected from the CRediT roles in Annexure A)
- Availability of data and materials
- Funding support
- Conflicts of interest
- Ethical approval and consent to participate
- Consent for publication
- RIS files of the references
If RIS reference files are not provided, reference handling is counted as minor editing for fewer than 100 references, and major editing for 100 or more.
Each figure and table must be copyright-free or carry permission to reuse. An extra ₹2,000 applies if you need help preparing figures or tables.
Payment policy
- 50% advance before work begins; the remaining 50% on first journal submission.
- Work commences only after the advance payment is received.
- No charge for further submissions if a manuscript is rejected (substantial post-rejection revisions may incur additional charges).
- Full refund for any project abandoned by the AspireNexa team; payments are otherwise non-refundable.
Resubmission policy
No payment is taken for further submissions if a manuscript is rejected. However, substantial revisions requested after rejection may incur additional charges, which we will always confirm with you first.
Academic integrity
We strictly prohibit
- Plagiarism
- Fabricated data
- Falsification
- Unethical publication practices
Authors remain responsible for
- Scientific accuracy
- Authenticity of data
- Ethical compliance
- Institutional approvals
Author contribution: for technically complex concepts or discipline-specific accuracy, authors may be asked to contribute to or clarify certain sections. This ensures the article is theoretically and technically sound.
Publication policy
Publication is not guaranteed. We provide expert assistance with submission, formatting, and reviewer response — but final editorial decisions are made solely by journals and publishers.
Confidentiality
All client manuscripts, research data, reviewer comments, and institutional information remain strictly confidential and are never shared with third parties without your written permission.
Intellectual property
Clients retain full ownership of their manuscripts and research content. AspireNexa retains ownership of its templates, formatting systems, educational materials, and internal workflows.
CRediT contributor roles
When listing author contributions, select from the standard CRediT roles below. Based on the Elsevier CRediT author statement .
- Conceptualization
- Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
- Methodology
- Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
- Software
- Programming, software development, designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
- Validation
- Verification, whether as part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
- Formal analysis
- Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data.
- Investigation
- Conducting research and the investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
- Resources
- Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
- Data curation
- Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data, and maintain research data (including software code, where necessary for interpreting the data) for initial use and later reuse.
- Writing — original draft
- Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
- Writing — review & editing
- Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision — including pre- or post-publication stages.
- Visualization
- Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
- Supervision
- Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
- Project administration
- Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
- Funding acquisition
- Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
This policy may be amended from time to time. The latest version published here applies.
Questions about our terms?
We're happy to walk you through anything before you commit. Reach out and we'll respond within one business day.