How-to
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.
You follow your submissions on the Author & reviewer → My submissions screen. Each row shows the submission's status and the next thing expected of you.
- Open the Author & reviewer → My submissions screen.
- To see the submissions that need something from you, switch to the Action needed tab.
- Press the button on the submission's row. Depending on the status, the button is called Open, Continue, Complete or Revise.
- On the submission's page, read the note below the title. The note says which stage the submission is at and what you need to do.
The meaning of the statuses is in Submission Statuses. Submission Page describes every part of a submission's page.
Decisions and reviewer comments
When a decision is issued in a round, the editor's decision letter appears on the Decisions & reviews tab. If the editor shared the comments for the author from the reviewers' reports, they appear on the same tab under the Reviews heading. You download a reviewer's shared attachment with the Reviewer attachment button.
Reviewers are shown with numbers, such as Reviewer 1 and Reviewer 2. In journals that practise open peer review, the reviewer's name is shown too. The parts of a reviewer's report that are not shown to you are described in Submission Rules.
Notifications
When the status of your submission changes, you get a notification in the panel and, in most cases, an e-mail as well. The e-mails do not carry the submission's content. They give only the submission number and a link to the panel. All your notifications are on the Notifications screen.