Why publish in Fly?

Fly strives to be a definitive resource that will promote the field.

Average 25-day turnaround from manuscript submission to decision.

Flexible formats for papers: no pre-set lengths for papers; no pre-set formats; your creative ideas will be considered; papers will be considered by Fly regardless of length.

Lower publication costs than most journals.

All papers are made open access after one year. Open access may be purchased at the time of acceptance making your paper free to all readers from the day it is first published online. Optional open access can be purchased for $750.

Fly is abstracted/indexed in: Medline/PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded (available as Current Contents/Life Sciences, Zoological Record, Biological Abstract and Biosis Previews).

Everyone in the Drosophila community will see your paper. All papers are published online and can be downloaded as PDFs. Our website draws researchers by featuring Fly Jobs where you can announce or seek an open postdoc position, and FlyBay, an interactive feature where you can ask the community for a particular chromosome, reagent, transgene, plasmid, etc. On FlyBay you can also advertise if you have a tool that you would like to share.