Welcome to AuthorArranger

AuthorArranger

Conquer journal title pages in seconds

AuthorArranger is a free web tool designed to help authors of research manuscripts automatically generate correctly formatted title pages for manuscript journal submission in a fraction of the time it takes to create the pages manually. Whether your manuscript has 20 authors or 200, AuthorArranger can save you time and resources by helping you conquer journal title pages in seconds.

Simply upload a spreadsheet containing author details ordered by author contribution, or download AuthorArranger’s easy-to-follow spreadsheet template and populate it with author and affiliation details. Either way, once your author information is uploaded AuthorArranger will allow you to make format choices based on the submission rules of the journal. When finished, you get a downloadable and formatted document that has all your authors and affiliations arranged for journal submission.

Follow our QuickStart guide below, or jump right into the AuthorArranger Tool.

Upload table displays sample author and affiliations in column order: First name, Last name, Division, Institute. Note that affiliations in the template spreadsheet can be changed to whatever fits your organization.

Step 1. Upload Author and affiliation details.

(Download AuthorArranger template)

Author Format table gives the user a sample of the available format choices. For the first name, user may choose to abbreviate and/or add period, for the last name user may choose to abbreviate and/or add period). User may also choose to superscript or go to a new line. Next, the Affiliation format table gives the user a sample of the available choices. For the Division, the user may choose to add a comma and/or add period. For the Institute, the user may choose to add a comma and/or add period. User may also choose to superscript, go to new line, add numbers (such as in a list).

Step 2. Configure author and affiliation formatting options.

(The Preview pane shows live changes)

The Reorder table displays a column of author names, each with an X to the right of the name. User has the option of changing authors places in the list by clicking and dragging up or down, and removing an author by choosing the X next to the author’s name.

Step 3. Reorder or remove authors.

(See Reorder tab on Preview Pane)

Sample Title page displays author names in order, using the following formats: First initial, last name, superscript affiliation number. Underneath it lists the author affiliations (in this instance, division and institute) in numeric order.

Step 4. Copy or download generated title page.

(Title page conquered!)

Step 5. (Optional) Generate email list for contacting authors.

(See Email tab on Preview Pane)

AuthorArranger was created by Mitchell Machiela and Geoffrey Tobias in collaboration with the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information (CBIIT). Support for AuthorArranger comes from the 2018 DCEG Informatic Tool Challenge.

Please acknowledge AuthorArranger in your manuscript's acknowledgement section: "Support for title page creation and format was provided by AuthorArranger, a tool developed at the National Cancer Institute." Feel free to share widely with colleagues! Email us with questions or feedback about AuthorArranger or to report technical problems.

AuthorArranger's source code is available under the MIT license, an Open Source Initiative approved license.