Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Sir John P. Moore, in Correspondence, laments the increased burden placed on scientists by the many journals that use an electronic

submission system (“Online submission makes authors do all the work” _Nature_ 433, 800; 200510.1038/433800d). It is true that the online system requires manuscripts to be prepared to the

journals' specifications. For some journals it goes beyond spacing or file formats to seemingly minor details such as the format and font of the citations in text, footnotes and tables,

and even the number of pixels for the figures. It's a lot of effort for first-time users, unless they are lucky enough to find someone experienced to help them. I can also imagine the

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