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Submissions

Preparing, sending and following submissions of articles, books, chapters, proceedings papers, theses and children's books.

Every registered user can make a submission, and no separate role is needed for it. Submissions of articles, book proposals, book chapters, proceedings papers, theses and children's books are prepared with the same wizard. Articles go to the journal you choose. The other types reach the publisher's editors.

The wizard saves the draft at every step and lists what is missing before you submit. A submission gets a number when it is sent, and its content is locked. From then on, correspondence with the editors, missing documents, revisions and proofs run from the submission's own page. You follow your submissions on the Author & reviewer → My submissions screen.

For your first submission, start with Making a Submission. Submission Statuses explains which stage your submission is at.

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How-to guides

  • Tracking a Submission

    Following the status of your submission, the decisions and the reviewer comments shared with you on the My submissions screen and the submission page.

  • Messaging the Editors

    Writing to the editors about a submission you sent on its Messages tab and reading their replies.

  • Supplying Missing Documents

    Completing your submission in the wizard and sending the corrections when the editor asks for missing documents or corrections.

  • Submitting a Revision

    Sending the revised anonymous manuscript and your response to the reviewers to the editors as a new round.

  • Checking Proofs

    Opening the proof of your accepted work that the production team shared and sending your corrections from the submission page.

  • Withdrawing a Submission

    Withdrawing a submission you sent, with a reason, before the final decision, and what happens when you do.

  • Deleting and Restoring Drafts

    Deleting a submission draft you have not sent and restoring a deleted draft together with its files.

  • Submitting a Draft Started on Your Behalf

    Checking a submission draft that an editor started on your behalf, confirming the declarations and sending it.

Screens and settings

  • My Submissions

    The tabs, rows and buttons of the screen that lists all the submissions and drafts of an author.

  • Submission Page

    The parts and buttons of the page that shows the status, decisions, messages, files, timeline and proofs of a submission.

  • Submission Wizard

    The parts of the wizard screen where new submissions and drafts are prepared step by step, how it saves and when it opens.

Concepts

  • Submission Statuses

    The statuses a submission passes through from draft to outcome, what is expected of you in each, and which status each decision leads to.

  • Submission Rules

    The rules the system applies to submissions on visibility, locking, reviewer anonymity, conflicts of interest and file security.

Troubleshooting

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Getting started

  • Making a Submission

    Completing your profile, then preparing and sending your first submission with the steps of the submission wizard.

How-to guides

  • Submitting on Behalf of an Author

    Opening a submission draft for a registered author account, filling in the metadata, authors and files, and leaving the draft to the author.

  • Finding Calls for Papers

    Finding the open calls for papers and chapters of journals and book projects on the Calls page of the public site and on journal pages.

Troubleshooting

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