American Journal of Earth Science and Engineering is an open access journal, which is available online to the reader without financial or technical barriers. Under the open access policy, the editorial office relies on the paper publication fee to cover publishing costs (including editorial costs, any costs of administering the peer review system, etc.).

The submitting author must confirm, at the time of submission, that they will organize payment after the paper is accepted for publication.

Following peer review, once a paper has been accepted by the journal in principle, the publication fee becomes payable and formatting checks on the manuscript will commence. Once formatting checks are completed, and payment of the publication fee has been received, the paper will be published online.

The publication fee for papers submitted to the journal is 360 USD.

Payment for the paper publication fee can be made as soon as the manuscript has been accepted in principle. Five kinds of payment methods are available for intending authors (US Dollar is supportable):

1. PayPal
2. Debit/Credit Card
3. Wire Transfer
4. Western Union
5. MoneyGram