Intersections is an open access publication sponsored by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center at Emory University. There are no fees to publish in Intersections, and all our publications are freely available to individuals and to institutions.  

Manuscripts submitted to Intersections may not have been previously published in print or electronic format and cannot be under consideration by another publication or medium.  

For all work published in Intersections, the copyright is retained by authors with first publication rights granted to Intersections. Articles are licensed under an open access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, meaning that anyone may download and read the paper for free. In addition, the article may be reused, quoted, and adapted, provided that proper attribution is given. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online.  

Authors may enter into separate arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of Intersections’ published version of their work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, in a journal or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal. 

All funding sources for work published in Intersections should be acknowledged. Authors must disclose funding sources and conflict of interest at the time work is submitted. The appropriate disclosure procedure can be found in the author guidelines. 

Authors must declare at submission that all necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained, all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms archived. The appropriate disclosure procedure can be found in the author guidelines. 

It is the goal of the Intersections staff and editorial board to make the review process as timely, positive, and transparent as possible. Staff will keep authors apprised of the status of their submission throughout the review process.

Although all work is peer reviewed prior to publication, it is our goal to work with authors to help them achieve publication if their submission is found to be complete and within the scope of Intersections, as determined by an editorial board member. This board member will then identify at least two peer reviewers with relevant expertise and interests, who will provide constructive feedback to the authors. An editorial board member may sometimes serve as a peer reviewer. The editorial board will consider all reviews before contacting the corresponding author to either accept the work or to suggest revisions that would make the work publishable. If authors choose to revise and resubmit, the editorial board and peer reviewers will determine whether the revisions address the concerns and suggestions raised in the initial review.

Once a submission has been accepted for publication, the editorial staff will work with authors to ensure it is in an appropriate format. Authors may need to submit new files and/or to respond to copy editing queries. Authors will have an opportunity to review the copyedited version of their work before it is published; minor changes in formatting, grammar or punctuation during the final publication process may be made at the discretion of the editorial team

Manuscripts authored by a member of the editorial board go through the same peer review process that is used for other manuscripts. We will make every attempt to avoid potential conflict of interest in this process, including assigning a different handling editor and managing the peer review process without participation by the author.

When submissions are solicited by the editorial office, including certain commentaries or perspective articles, the corresponding editorial board member will provide guidance to the author(s) as to the requested general topic of the submission. These submissions will undergo peer review and copy editing but with the understanding that this will be to enhance the submission, not to make a decision on its publication.

Authors may request to have their manuscript marked as “Withdrawn” if they no longer stand by their findings/conclusions or acknowledge fundamental errors in the manuscript. In these cases, a statement explaining the reason for the withdrawal is posted on the Intersections webpage to which the DOI defaults.