Authorea

What Authorea is

Authorea is an online writing tool and preprint hosting platform for researchers creating and sharing open research. Users can start from scratch or upload Word, PDF, or LaTeX files, then collaborate with coauthors in real time. Writing formats include LaTeX and Markdown, and documents can include data, code, Jupyter Notebooks, videos, figures, and other files. Uploads are limited to 25 MB per file and 1 GB per document. Authorea provides over 8,000 journal templates. Posting work as a preprint assigns a DOI, making it citable, shareable, and discoverable. Users can submit preprints to a number of refereed journals and participate in Wiley’s Under Review program at participating journals. Articles can be linked with GitHub repositories so online and offline changes are reflected between them. Bibliographies from Mendeley, EndNote, or Zotero can be imported by exporting a BibTeX file and uploading it to a document’s bibliography folder. Documents can be exported as PDF, Word, LaTeX when applicable, or ZIP. Its Free plan costs nothing and includes online writing, preprint hosting, real-time collaboration, and LaTeX and Markdown support.