Your journal’s record of scholarship, rendered exactly.
From a submitted manuscript to what you actually ship: PMC-ready JATS, structured references, production figures, optional AI copy editing, and a typeset proof on your journal’s page design — then a package to deposit or hand back to OJS.
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What the manuscript gives you
<!-- Word, flattened to text --> Survival improved markedly in the treated cohort.³ Similar gains were reported in 2019.⁷ References 3. Ahmadi R, et al. Outcomes after adjuvant therapy. Arch Breast Cancer. 2019;6(2):41-8.
What Colophon emits
<p>Survival improved markedly in the treated cohort.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref> …</p> <ref id="B3"><element-citation publication-type="journal"> <article-title>Outcomes after adjuvant therapy</article-title> <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.32...
Measured, not asserted
One issue, checked against PMC’s own rules
We ran a published issue — fifteen research articles — end to end, then validated the output with the National Library of Medicine’s own style checker rather than our own opinion of correctness.
15/15
articles passing PMC’s style checker with zero errors
653
cross-references resolved, none left dangling
0
lines of final XML written by a language model
100%
of bibliographic references linked — the commercial baseline linked none
The work it does
From a submitted file to a deposited article
01
Extract
Headings, sections, tables, captions, funding, ethics and affiliations from the manuscript’s own structure — not a flattened guess.
02
References
Typed, structured, checked against Crossref and PubMed. In-text markers — including superscripts — link back to the entry they name.
03
Figures & tables
Multi-panel plates as fig-group, production files per panel, captions that stay with their object.
04
AI copy editing
Tracked suggestions when the issue buys editing. Accept or refuse; unfinished editing cannot ship into typeset or package.
05
Page design & typeset
Journal template and house colour once; every proof follows them. Paginated PDF from the same reviewed record as the XML — then accept pages from the proof.
06
Validate & package
PMC stylesheets offline; DTD on request. A checker that could not run reports unknown — never a pass. Download the ZIP or return the galley.
How you connect
Three doors into the same production core
The web app, the OJS plugin, and the HTTP API all reach the same services — upload, pipeline, package — so a rule fixed once protects every path.
Web
Convert
Drop a DOCX, choose journal and issue, watch the stages. Blockers stay on the page; Resume continues the same run. Built for operators who want the workbench without a chat thread as the main UI.
OJS
Plugin for Open Journal Systems
Connect the journal once (pairing — no key-pasting as the happy path). From copyediting, send the manuscript; Colophon returns the finished package to the production file stage and can attach the galley on publish. Status and credits stay visible in the OJS panel.
API
Platform API
Programmatic create: manuscript plus optional JATS <front> metadata in one call. Idempotent submissions, status polling, the same pipeline Convert uses. For hosts that already automate intake — or that will.
How it behaves
Rules the system keeps, not promises we make
The XML is deterministic
Generation is rule-based from reviewed metadata. No language model writes production XML — so the same record always yields the same package, and a defect is reproducible rather than probabilistic.
A human’s decision is final
Once an operator approves a field, a reference or an asset, it is canonical until a person changes it again. Every stored value records where it came from, and a less-trusted source cannot quietly overwrite a better one.
AI proposes, it does not overwrite
Extraction, cleanup and copy-editing arrive as pending proposals with a visible diff. Accepting is an act, not a default — and edits that invent a number, a citation or an identifier refuse themselves outright.
Your articles stay yours
Manuscripts are permission-controlled per journal and per role. Nothing is published, deposited or sent anywhere without someone deciding that it should be.
Stop paying for XML you cannot check
If you already know what a correct package looks like — JATS, proof PDF, and the checks in between — you should be able to produce one, inspect it, and deposit it the same afternoon. From Convert, from OJS, or from your own automation.