How-to
Submitting a Draft Started on Your Behalf
Checking a submission draft that an editor started on your behalf, confirming the declarations and sending it.
If you gave your documents to an editor or a system administrator, that person can open a submission draft on your behalf. The draft appears in your My submissions list, and you get the panel notification "A submission draft was started on your behalf". The draft's page shows who started it.
You own the draft. The submission does not reach the editorial office until you send it.
- Open the link in the notification, or open the draft in the Author & reviewer → My submissions list.
- Check the metadata, the authors and the files in the wizard's steps. Correct them if needed.
- In the Declarations step, read and confirm each declaration yourself.
- In the Review & submit step, press Submit and confirm.
The person who started the draft can keep editing the metadata, the authors and the files until you send it. Only you confirm the declarations.
If you do not want the draft, you can delete it. The steps are in Deleting and Restoring Drafts. All the wizard's steps are described in Making a Submission.