The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world's largest aerospace professional society and the definitive scholarly publisher in aeronautics and astronautics. Formed on January 31, 1963 through the merger of the American Rocket Society (founded 1930) and the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences (founded 1932), AIAA publishes eight active peer-reviewed journals plus the proceedings of its major forums (SciTech, AVIATION, ASCEND). Everything lives on Aerospace Research Central (ARC), AIAA's online platform, with archives reaching back to predecessor-society publications of the 1930s.

If you work in aerodynamics, propulsion, guidance and control, spacecraft systems, or air transportation, an AIAA journal is very likely the natural home for your paper. This guide covers how to choose among the eight journals, what open access costs, how peer review works, and how to submit through ScholarOne.

AIAA's journals divide the aerospace field cleanly by subject. Pick the one whose scope matches your core contribution - the Editor-in-Chief screens for fit before review.

• 8 active peer-reviewed journals, all online in ARC, spanning the full aerospace spectrum. AIAA Journal and the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics publish monthly; the others are bimonthly.
• Conference proceedings from AIAA's forums - tens of thousands of meeting papers. In most cases, AIAA conference papers can be submitted to a journal without reformatting (double-spaced, with the conference paper number noted).
• Books and standards, plus the Aerospace America member magazine.
• Historic archives - retired titles (Journal of Energy, Journal of Hydronautics) and predecessor-society journals back to the 1930s, all retrievable in ARC.

AIAA runs an unusual, author-friendly model: publication itself is free, and open access is a voluntary paid upgrade.

AIAA is a member of CHORUS and supports U.S. federal public-access mandates: authors on federal grants deposit their accepted manuscripts in the relevant agency archive, typically within 12 months of publication. Paying the APC does not by itself fulfill a federal deposit mandate. Fee amounts are revised periodically - check AIAA's current open-access charge sheet before budgeting.

• Model: single-anonymized (single-blind) review across all AIAA journals.
• Workflow: the Editor-in-Chief screens each manuscript, then an Associate Editor assigns it to two or more expert reviewers for confidential evaluation of technical content, importance, clarity, and completeness.
• Decisions rest with the Associate Editor and ultimately the Editor-in-Chief; evaluation plus revisions may take several weeks to several months.
• Reviewer expectation: AIAA asks each publishing author to review three submitted manuscripts in return.

1. Pick the journal whose scope matches your contribution (table above).
2. Prepare the manuscript using AIAA's Word or LaTeX template - available on SciSpace - in English, 10-point type, double-spaced, single-column, with a 100-200 word abstract and AIAA-style numbered references.
3. Submit via ScholarOne Manuscripts, AIAA's single portal for all eight journals. List funding sources and grant numbers in the submission fields.
4. Confirm co-authorship - every author must verify their contribution by email before the submission is complete.
5. Track status in the ScholarOne Author Center; accepted articles publish online first as Articles in Advance with a DOI.

AIAA is a COPE member and maintains published Ethical Standards for Publication of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research, plus a distinctive Editorial Policy on Numerical and Experimental Accuracy that reviewers apply to computational and experimental work. Authors sign a Copyright Clearance and Release form (including a no-infringement statement); reprinted material requires the copyright owner's permission. Articles carry Crossmark for version integrity and are preserved in CLOCKSS; ORCID use is encouraged.