Electronic submission of manuscripts for publication in ESA journals should ultimately The Journal of Phycology is now accepting electronic submission of manuscripts. Electronic submission of manuscripts for publication in the Journal should eventually prove to be much more efficient than paper submission. The obvious advantage to electronic submission is the more rapid handling during the review process. Electronic submission also means that international authors can send their manuscripts by regular airmail, rather than by courier. Figures can be imported into the manuscript or must be formatted as separate TIFF, EPS, PowerPoint, Word, or Excel files.
Electronic submission is merely an option.