Every week, someone in Cameroon finishes a solid piece of research and stalls at the last step. Follow the exact path a manuscript takes through Evans Consulting Publications: from a finished Word document to a permanent, citable page with your name on it.
Most researchers lose weeks emailing journals that never reply, or worse, pay inflated fees to sites that publish anything without reading it. At Evans Consulting Publications, a named editor reads your work and puts their own name next to the decision.
Two different paths, depending on what you’re submitting
Not every submission is the same kind of request, and ECP treats them differently on purpose.
Already published elsewhere
- Your paper already appeared in a journal, conference proceedings, or an institutional repository
- ECP indexes it: full metadata, a citable page, and Google Scholar-compatible tags
- No review, no fee. You’re archiving and improving discoverability, not seeking a new verdict
- Keeps its original DOI/publisher credit; ECP never reissues a new DOI for reprinted work
New or unpublished manuscript
- Work that hasn’t been published anywhere before
- Goes to a named editor in your discipline for a real accept/revise/decline decision
- The fee covers the editor’s review time and hosting once accepted. It does not guarantee acceptance
- If accepted, it becomes ECP’s own original publication, eligible for a future ECP DOI once Crossref registration is complete
“Pay and we’ll publish anything” sites have burned a lot of researchers, so it’s fair to ask. The 20,000 FCFA fee applies only to new work and covers an editor’s actual reading time plus permanent hosting. It doesn’t buy acceptance. Already-published work is indexed at no cost, because there’s nothing left to review.
What happens after you hit submit
Prepare your manuscript
Format it against ECP’s standard structure before you upload anything. A paper that already matches the required sections moves through review far faster than one an editor has to send back for restructuring. Download the free template covered below and build directly inside it.
Submit through the intake form
Head to Submit Your Work. No account or login required. You’ll indicate your discipline, upload the manuscript, and confirm the Contributor Agreement. The form saves as a draft automatically as you go, so a dropped connection doesn’t cost you the submission.
A named editor takes it
Your submission routes automatically to the editor covering your discipline, the same person credited publicly on the Editorial Board page, not an anonymous queue. They read the actual paper, not just the abstract.
Accept, revise, or decline
You get one of three honest outcomes. A revision request comes with specific notes on what to fix, not a boilerplate rejection. A decline names a reason too, because the editor attached to it has to stand behind the call.
Published with a citable page
Accepted work gets a permanent URL, full bibliographic metadata, and the editor’s name on the record. The metadata follows the same tagging standard Google Scholar crawls, so readers can find the paper well beyond the ECP site itself.
Formatting still matters before you submit
The review itself judges your argument and your evidence, not your margins. A manuscript that already follows ECP’s required structure (the IMRaD sections, the metadata block, the declarations) still moves through an editor’s queue much faster than one that arrives as a plain, unstructured Word file. The full formatting rulebook, section by section, is covered in our companion guide to ECP’s document standards. Read it before you write a single section, not after.
Questions authors ask
Do I need to already know a discipline editor to submit?
No. Submit through the intake form and it routes to the right editor automatically, based on the discipline you select. You don’t contact anyone directly first.
How long does review take?
It depends on the editor’s current queue and the length of your paper, but ECP is a small, editor-led operation rather than a mass-volume journal, so you’re looking at days and weeks, not the six-to-twelve-month waits common at larger outlets. If you haven’t heard back within a couple of weeks, contact us directly.
Can I submit a thesis chapter or a conference paper?
Yes, provided it stands on its own as a coherent piece of research with its own introduction, methodology, and conclusion, not a fragment that only makes sense next to the rest of the thesis. If it was already presented at a conference or published in proceedings, it falls under the free-indexing path, not new review.
What if my paper gets declined?
You keep the manuscript and the editor’s reasoning, and you’re free to revise it and resubmit, or to take it elsewhere. ECP doesn’t record a decline publicly against you.
Is the DOI or ISSN real?
ECP marks both fields “pending” on every article until they’re genuinely issued, and will never print a fabricated DOI or ISSN. That’s the kind of transparency that separates a credible independent publisher from a predatory one. Once registration completes, ECP updates published articles with the real numbers.
Ready to submit your work?
Have your manuscript formatted and ready, then send it through.
Further reading: the Directory of Open Access Journals’ guide to what makes a publication credible covers many of the same disclosure standards ECP already builds its process around.
