How to submit

Manuscript

All manuscripts must be written in English.

An Article manuscript needs to include the following sections: Title, Author list, Author affiliations and footnotes, Abstract, Introduction, Results, Discussion, Materials and Methods, Author Contributions, Competing Interests, References, Figures and/or Tables, and Figure legends.

For other publication categories, please refer to Core Format Specifications for their specific requirements.

Coverletter

Authors may choose to include a cover letter when submitting their manuscript. In this letter, authors can highlight core findings of their work and its contribution to the field, and may also suggest preferred reviewers or request certain individuals to be excluded from the review process, as the letter is only available to the editors and will not be shared with the reviewers.

Online submission

All submissions to Vita must be submitted via our online submission system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vita).

Pre-submission

All pre-submission enquiries should be directed to the editorial office at vita@vita-journal.com, or submitted via our online submission system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vita).

Submission of Revisions

Submission of a revised manuscript requires the following mandatory materials:

1) A rebuttal letter that responds to reviewers’ comments point-by-point; if disagreeing with any feedback, include a detailed, evidence-based justification for your stance;

2) A marked-up manuscript that highlights all changes made to address reviewer input;

3) Also a clean/unmarked version of the revised manuscript.

Final submission

These instructions are only applicable if your manuscript has received in-principle acceptance for publication and an editor has formally requested that you submit materials for final processing.

Main text

All textual content—including the manuscript title, main body, references, and all figure/table legends—must be uploaded as a single, editable file, such as microsoft WORD.

Main figures

Please upload main figures as individual, high-resolution image files (300–600dpi) and do not embed them in the main text. PSD, TIFF and PDF are the preferred formats for final production files. Figure titles and legends should be excluded from the image files; instead, these elements should be placed at the end of the main text. Additionally, all figure files must bear clear, descriptive names that enable immediate identification.

Figure legends

Figure legends should start with a title sentence that summarizes the core focus of the figure, followed by a brief yet sufficient description of the figure’s content and key observations that can be understood independently of the main text.

Supplementary Information

Supplementary Information (SI) is peer-reviewed material that supports the paper’s conclusions but is unsuitable for inclusion in the main text. Once the paper is accepted, upload the finalized SI as a single merged PDF, with clear section titles (e.g., Supplementary Figure, Supplementary Methods) and brief legends for all supplementary figures and tables.

Supplementary Video and Audio files

One-sentence title and a short legend need to be included for each video/audio file. Please upload the descriptive information as a separate editable file and do not integrate them into the SI PDF. Video/audio must not exceed 500 MB in size, and 5 minutes in length. Each video/audio file needs to be appropriately cited in the manuscript at least once.

Specific requirements for different publication categories can be found in the detailed instructions enclosed within the decision letters.

Post-acceptance document

After the paper is accepted, the corresponding author(s) is required to complete and sign the Copyright Statement form on behalf of all contributing authors, and submit the completed document to the editorial office via E-mail to the associated editor. Failure to return the form will cause delays to the manuscript’s publication.