eLife in New Collaboration with Overleaf

eLife is a unique collaboration between the funders and practitioners of research to improve the way important research is selected, presented, and shared. eLife publishes outstanding works across the life sciences and biomedicine — from basic biological research to applied, translational, and clinical studies.

eLife is now working with our portfolio company Overleaf, as well as Manuscripts.app, PubRef and Authorea, to allow authors to write and submit research to the journal as quickly and easily as possible.

Through the Overleaf platform, eLife authors can create, edit, and share scientific ideas online, allowing authors to write in either a full LaTeX editor or Rich Text mode. They can easily collaborate with others through a Google Docs™-style, real-time collaborative environment and they can see their finished file composed automatically as they write – they write on the left and see their composed document on the right, based on the template they are using.

The Overleaf platform will also be integrated into the eLife journal submission and review system, eJournalPress (EJPress), allowing authors to submit their completed manuscripts more easily.

As well as this, eLife also commissioned Overleaf to create a custom open-source LaTeX template, which is available to download and use from the eLife website or can be opened directly in Overleaf. The template allows authors to generate a paper in a similar format to the final PDF presented by the journal, giving them the ability to size their figures and an idea of how their completed paper will look if published.

To learn more about this partnership, you can read the official news on the Overleaf website.