Arfon Smith

> To be clear, is it acceptable to first submit our paper as a preprint to biorxiv, and obtain a DOI there, before submitting to JOSS? I don't think JOSS...

👍 good idea. This should be relatively easy to implement.

Hi @programmerommy, I'm happy to help you try and get up and running with this application in #608. In the meantime, please don't spam unrelated issues with questions like this.

> If this is official policy for JOSS then review guidelines/checklist should probably be updated accordingly so that everything doesn't have to be included in software repository under review. Thanks...

Hrm. Not sure what happened here but I've not been able to find an underlying issue here so will close for now. Feel free to re-open if this happens again.

> GitHub user profiles can already include Twitter handles (along with email and websites). Would they consider adding ORCID? Possibly - I can ask...

> Or do we (JOSS) want to be able to push to ORCID? I think this is the most realistic in the short term and would be a big win...

> @arfon any updates on this? Over at https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/3736 a reviewers asked about reviews/ORCID. No progress sorry. Crossref does post information about the papers authors publish with us directly to...

Thanks for flagging this. > The Submission Requirements section of the JOSS Documentation makes it clear that it merely preferable, not necessary, for the submitted paper to be hosted in...

@tarleb - any thoughts on how this could be improved? We currently do exactly as @danielskatz describes [here](https://github.com/openjournals/whedon/blob/74bc29a6a731ff04415296de4adb35d96f37ad99/lib/whedon/bibtex_parser.rb#L80-L90). For the PDF we use Pandoc + [the APA CSL](https://github.com/openjournals/whedon/blob/master/resources/joss/apa.csl) which presumably...