Lints your .tex manuscript for what desk-rejects papers: missing data availability, funding, competing-interest and generative-AI statements, obsolete packages, absolute figure paths. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Same engine as the VS Code extension, byte for byte.
This page is the working piece. The full pack has everything below.
Seventeen rules on your .tex file: the statements the editorial office looks for, and the source that breaks the publisher's build.
Manuscript editing services price per word, from about $0.05, so a 6,000-word paper runs to roughly $300 and a revision cycle takes days.
Buy the full version — $29It reads a LaTeX manuscript and reports what editorial offices check before a paper reaches an editor: the data availability, funding, competing-interest, CRediT and generative-AI statements, plus ORCID, keywords, line numbering, obsolete packages, a draft class option, absolute figure paths, EPS figures, leftover TODO notes, split sources, a de-anonymising acknowledgements section and a prior-year date. Seventeen rules, each reported with its line number.
Corresponding authors who write in LaTeX and submit to Elsevier, Springer Nature, IEEE or PLOS through Editorial Manager or ScholarOne. Also lab leads who read a student's manuscript before it goes out, and copy-editors who check the same statements on every paper that lands on their desk. It assumes you know your field, not the submission checklist.
Overleaf and latexmk answer a different question: whether the file builds. A manuscript can compile perfectly and still be returned for a missing data availability statement, or for a figure path that exists only on your laptop and not on the publisher's build machine. A chatbot cannot see your project files, and pasting a whole manuscript into one is exactly what your journal's AI policy asks you to declare.
Free checks the .tex file you have open against all seventeen rules and writes the full line-numbered report; nothing is watermarked, timed out or locked after a number of runs. The licence changes the scope: every .tex file in the project, the include chain of a split manuscript followed from the root file, and one exported submission-readiness report covering the whole paper.
Manuscript editing services price per word, from about $0.05, so a 6,000-word paper runs to roughly $300 and a revision cycle takes days of waiting. A returned submission costs more than that in calendar time. This checks the submission requirements themselves in under a second on your own machine; the licence is $29 once with a seven-day full refund.
One question, answered by the person who built it. Your email only if you want the answer sent.