Checks a manuscript before submission for the statements journals and funders now require: AI-use disclosure, data availability, funding and grant IDs, CRediT, competing interests, ethics, ORCID. 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.
16 rules that catch the statements a journal desk-rejects you for — in your .tex or .md, before you submit
Commercial manuscript formatting and submission-compliance services are priced at $150-$400 per paper; this is the same checklist as a file you run yourself.
Buy the full version — $29It reads the .tex or .md manuscript open in VS Code and applies 16 rules for the statements journals collect at submission: generative-AI disclosure, data availability with a real locator, funding and award ID, competing interests, CRediT author contributions, ethics approval, informed consent, trial registration, ORCID and an open-access licence. Each finding names the line and the wording to paste.
Researchers and postdocs who draft papers in LaTeX or Markdown inside VS Code, clinical trialists who must show a registration identifier, and research-office or lab staff who sign off submissions. If you write in Word and submit through a publisher portal that fills these fields for you, you do not need it.
Two reasons. An unpublished manuscript under review is confidential, and most institutions and journals forbid pasting it into a hosted model. And chatbots are stale here: models trained before mid-2026 still describe the retired 12-month NIH embargo rather than the policy in force since 2026-07-01. This runs offline and carries that date as a rule.
Checking the file open in your editor is free and uncapped: all 16 rules, every finding, the paste-ready wording, forever. The paid part is scope and ownership — sweeping every manuscript in a workspace at once and writing a dated report file you keep. $29 once, one key per person or CI seat, 7-day full refund.
Commercial manuscript formatting and submission-compliance services are priced at $150-$400 per paper. A desk rejection costs no money but roughly 2 to 6 weeks before the paper reaches a reviewer at the next journal, and the resubmission starts the queue again.
One question, answered by the person who built it. Your email only if you want the answer sent.