Authors working in countries that do not sponsor A&A pay page charges at the rate of 100 euros per printed page. Page charges are not requested if the first author is affiliated with one of the countries that sponsor A&A.

In the past, this policy was not applied to papers received from a number of countries that suffer economic hardship. Because of the increased expenses caused by changing the A&A editorial system and by  introducing newservices, this liberal policy is no longer possible. Therefore, the A&A Board of Directors have decided during its annual meeting on May 8th, 2004, that the page charge policy should now be strictly enforced.

When a paper is submitted, a page charge form is sent to the corresponding author by the Editorial office. The evaluation process starts only upon receipt of the signed form.

The A&A Editors are entitled to waive page charges upon request. They can only do so, however, for an amount limited to a maximum of 10% of all papers published per year.

For information about extra cost for colour printing, see here. 

Special note for long papers:

Page charges for excessively long papers. All authors, including those from sponsoring countries, will be billed for the production costs of pages in excess of 30 at a rate of 100 euros per printed page and 25 euros per electronic page.