Issue compilation, scheduling, covers, front matter, print-ready files and digital editions — the volume-level production that turns a pile of accepted articles into a journal that publishes on time.
An issue is late because two articles are still in proof, the cover hasn’t been designed, the front matter references an editorial board that changed in March, and nobody has assembled the table of contents. Then the next issue inherits the delay, and within a year your publication schedule is fiction.
Production Services runs the volume-level layer: a dated calendar, articles pulled forward against it, and every issue assembled, checked and released complete.
Accepted articles assembled into issues with tables of contents, pagination, article ordering and section structure applied consistently.
A dated calendar for the full volume year, with articles tracked against it and early warning when an issue is at risk of slipping.
Issue covers, editorial board pages, aims and scope, indexes and volume front matter designed and kept current each cycle.
Press-ready PDFs with correct bleed, colour profiles and imposition, plus liaison with your printer where you still produce physical copies.
HTML, EPUB and mobile-optimised formats generated from the same source, so every edition stays in sync with the article of record.
Guest-edited collections, conference supplements and themed issues produced end to end, including their own front matter and scheduling.
Book-length production for presses publishing beyond journals.
Author, subject and keyword indexes compiled per volume.
Versioned, dated and linked correctly to the article of record.
Historical issues rebuilt where original production files are lost.
Imprint pages, copyright statements and licensing applied correctly and consistently.
We review your publication frequency, current backlog, formats and where issues have historically slipped, then agree a calendar and quote fixed per-issue pricing.
Every issue in the volume year gets a dated production schedule with article deadlines working backwards from release, visible to your team.
Issues assembled, checked, released on schedule and delivered to your platform, with slippage flagged early enough to act on.
Amplionix publishes its own peer-reviewed open access journals on a continuous schedule. The production calendars, checklists and batch tooling we’d bring to your journal are the ones keeping ours on time — including the parts that had to be rebuilt after we missed a deadline ourselves.
producing journal issues on schedule
per issue, agreed for the full volume year
from a single production source
on at-risk issues, not post-mortems
Production Services is quoted per issue with the rate set by article count, formats and whether print is involved. Special issues are quoted separately. Pricing is fixed for the volume year, so your budget is set in advance.
Both. We produce press-ready files and work with your printer, or digital-only if you’ve moved away from print.
Yes. We match your existing template and pagination so the volume stays visually consistent across the handover.
Then you likely need Manuscript Processing rather than this page — continuous publication removes most of the volume-level work. We’ll say so on the call.
We do, to your brand, or we work with your existing designer’s template.
You get the warning early, with options: hold the article to the next issue, or move the release date. The decision stays yours.
One call, and you’ll leave with a dated production calendar for the year — whether or not you hire us to run it.
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