About foliom

foliom turns a Word manuscript into a submission-ready PDF in a journal's own LaTeX template, and tells you what an editorial office would send back.

What it does

It reads the .docx, recovers the structure a word processor leaves implicit — headings, the abstract, floats and their captions, equations, the reference list — and renders that into the publisher's real document class with the options their author guide specifies. Then it compiles, and checks the finished PDF rather than its own intentions: page count and abstract length read off the output, figure resolution measured at printed size, citations matched against references, DOIs resolved against the works they claim to describe, anonymity checked in the PDF's own text and file properties for a double-anonymous venue. What comes back is the PDF, the LaTeX source, a submission bundle arranged the way the upload form asks for it, and the report.

Every target is listed with the class file it uses, generated from the registry the converter itself reads — and marked there if this particular server does not have the publisher's class files installed yet.

What it is not

• Not a writing tool. Nothing rewrites your prose. A deterministic set of rules classifies every paragraph; on this instance the optional language-model step is switched off entirely, so the rules are the whole of it. Before it renders anything, foliom checks the structure it recovered against your document: every source paragraph accounted for exactly once. A conversion that fails that check says so instead of handing you a quietly different paper.
• Not affiliated with any publisher. The class files are the publishers' own, used as they distribute them; the publisher and journal names on this site identify whose template a target is and nothing more. No publisher has reviewed, approved or endorsed this tool, and a class file's name here is a technical fact rather than a relationship.
• Not a submission service. foliom produces the files; you submit them. It has no account with any publisher and no way to send anything on your behalf.
• Not a place to keep a paper. There are no backups, and nothing expires on its own either — which cuts both ways. Keep your own copy.

Who runs this instance

foliom is one person's project, and this deployment is a single small server rather than a company. This instance publishes no contact address; see contact. Terms of use says what it does and does not stand behind, and privacy says what happens to a file you upload.