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[Help](https://cccurj.org/help/) > Submission overview

# Submission overview

[Start a submission](https://cccurj.org/account/submit) [Create an account](https://cccurj.org/account/register) first if you do not have one.

## You need

- An eligible submitting author (see [who can submit](https://cccurj.org/about#eligibility)).
- The **LaTeX source** (a .tex file, or a .zip or .tar.gz with figures and bibliography) and the **PDF** compiled from it, each at most 30 MB. See [formatting with LaTeX](https://cccurj.org/help/latex).
- The title, authors, an abstract of at most 1,920 characters, the [artifact type](https://cccurj.org/help/artifacts) and a [category](https://cccurj.org/category_taxonomy).
- For a **dataset or software**: a link to the files in a public repository, and a short PDF that describes them in place of a paper (see [publishing work that is not a paper](https://cccurj.org/help/artifacts#beyond-papers)).
- Disclosures: funding, conflicts of interest, collaborations, generative AI use, and ethics approval for work with human participants.
- Every author's agreement to release the work under [CC BY 4.0](https://cccurj.org/help/license).

## What happens next

1. A preprint editor checks the submission. This is not peer review: they check scope, format, disclosures and eligibility, not whether the research is right. They may reclassify it, put it on hold with a note, or decline it with a reason.
2. Accepted work gets an identifier, **CCCURJ:YYMM.NNNNN**, and is announced in the next listing.
3. Announced work is permanent: you can [replace](https://cccurj.org/help/replace) or [withdraw](https://cccurj.org/help/withdraw) it, but not remove it.

For peer review, [apply to CCCURJ Flagship](https://cccurj.org/flagship/submit) once your work is announced. See [how preprints and CCCURJ Flagship articles differ](https://cccurj.org/help/preprints-and-flagship).