Publication fee payment

Publication fees

Note: This new policy does not affect the submissions completed prior to 1 January 2025 or done through the special submission tracks agreed on prior to this date (ICTCT 2024, RSS 2024, and CARSP/ICTCT 2025). If you are not sure, please, reach out to editor@tsr.international for clarifications.

The authors of accepted manuscripts are asked to pay a production fee. The fee is kept intentionally low and is directly based on the upfront cost to prepare an ‘average’ TSR article for publication. Currently, the production fee is:

  • SEK 5 800 (≈ EUR 500†).

† Check the current exchange rates here.

Authors from the following countries are eligible for a fee waiver (eligibility is determined by the country of the main affiliation of the first author):

Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Micronesia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Authors affiliated with a TSR sponsor organisation should enquirer whether their publication is covered by a special agreement. The eligibility is determined by the first author and his/her main affiliation.

Credit card payment (preferred method)

The secure credit card payments are provided and managed by the Division of Finances at Lund University, Sweden. In case of any technical issues, please, contact them at inbet@eken.lu.se.

Follow the link below which will open the payment service in a new window. Select the fee under ‘Choose your option’ (make sure to have ‘1’ as the quantity), click ‘BUY’, and then ‘Proceed to Checkout’. Follow the instructions.

Important: Your receipt will be shown on screen only. Make sure to save it electronically or print it out directly.

Payment through an invoice

In order to receive an invoice, please, get in contact with Helena Vilhelmsson at helena.vilhelmsson@miljo.lth.se.

Confirmation of transaction

Please, send the confirmation of your transaction directly to editor@tsr.international in order to avoid any payment-related delays in publication of your paper.