Overview
Where Cell Press stands on CRediT
Cell Press first began offering CRediT to authors in 2015, per Elsevier’s own press release (PRNewswire, Dec 10, 2019) — ahead of the 2022 ANSI/NISO standardization. CRediT is required across the Cell Press family.
Scope: All Cell Press journals
Implementation details
How CRediT is captured and produced
| Submission system | Aries Editorial Manager (Elsevier infrastructure) |
| JATS implementation | Production-grade JATS <role vocab="credit"> output; CRediT statements published in the article HTML/PDF and deposited to Crossref via the Cell Press / Elsevier production pipeline. |
| Production workflow | After acceptance, contributor roles flow from Editorial Manager into the typesetting pipeline. The published article includes a CRediT taxonomy statement section, with structured XML emitted to indexers and Crossref. |
For authors
Author guidance — submitting to a Cell Press journal
When submitting to a Cell Press journal, expect to provide a CRediT role matrix during the Editorial Manager submission flow. The role assignments are published as a structured contribution statement in the final article.
For general CRediT submission guidance across publishers, see CRediT for authors.
Sample journals
Representative Cell Press titles with CRediT capture
- Cell
- Neuron
- Immunity
- Cell Reports
- Cell Metabolism
- Cell Host & Microbe
- Joule
Adoption history
Notable milestones
Per Elsevier’s own Dec 10, 2019 press release, Cell Press "first started offering CRediT to authors in 2015" — an early adoption predating the 2022 ANSI/NISO standardization by seven years. (An earlier version of this page cited 2014; corrected 2026-07-16 against the primary-source press release.)
Notes
Caveats and context
Cell Press operates within Elsevier but has historically run its own editorial culture and submission flow refinements ahead of the wider Elsevier rollout.
Frequently asked
Common questions about Cell Press and CRediT
- Does Cell Press require CRediT contributor statements?
- Yes. Cell Press captures structured CRediT statements as part of its standard submission flow. Cell Press first began offering CRediT to authors in 2015, per Elsevier’s own press release (PRNewswire, Dec 10, 2019) — ahead of the 2022 ANSI/NISO standardization. CRediT is required across the Cell Press family.
- Which Cell Press journals support CRediT?
- Representative Cell Press titles known to support structured CRediT capture include Cell, Neuron, Immunity. Scope: All Cell Press journals. Check the individual journals author instructions to confirm the current contributor-roles policy.
- How do I add CRediT to my Cell Press submission?
- When submitting to a Cell Press journal, expect to provide a CRediT role matrix during the Editorial Manager submission flow. The role assignments are published as a structured contribution statement in the final article.
- What submission system does Cell Press use for CRediT capture?
- Cell Press uses Aries Editorial Manager (Elsevier infrastructure). Production-grade JATS <role vocab="credit"> output; CRediT statements published in the article HTML/PDF and deposited to Crossref via the Cell Press / Elsevier production pipeline.
- When did Cell Press adopt CRediT?
- Cell Press adopted CRediT around 2015. Per Elsevier’s own Dec 10, 2019 press release, Cell Press "first started offering CRediT to authors in 2015" — an early adoption predating the 2022 ANSI/NISO standardization by seven years. (An earlier version of this page cited 2014; corrected 2026-07-16 against the primary-source press release.)
References
Sources
- Elsevier press release (PRNewswire, Dec 10, 2019) — states Cell Press "first started offering CRediT to authors in 2015"
- Allen et al. (2014) — Publishing: Credit where credit is due, Nature
- Brand et al. (2015) — Beyond authorship, Learned Publishing
