Official journal of the University of Sarajevo – Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Online First publishing (OLF)

Online First publishing (OLF) in the academic community enables a quicker and more effective way to reduce the time previously taken for publishing critical discoveries (often by several months). OLF involves releasing an article’s electronic version before the print version.

An article is prepared for OLF once the proof has been revised, approved and can be published online. As a result, users can access peer-reviewed articles long before they are printed. These publications can be cited using their specific DOI and are searchable on the journal’s webpage. Although the formatting is dependent on the journal’s reference style, in theory, you can use the DOI in place of the volume and page numbers, like in the following example:

TONG, Huaiyu et al. (2022) Implication of a de novo Variant in ciliary rootlet coiled- coil (CROCC) with assimilation of atlas (AOA). Genetics & Applications, doi.org/10.31383/ga.vol6iss1pp11-26.