Follow the steps below to complete your manuscript submission, if you need additional help, you can view Editorial Manager video tutorials.
- Starting your Editorial Manager submission
- Linking your ORCiD account
- Attaching your files
- Adding general information on Editorial Manager
- Adding additional information
- Comments
- Manuscript data
- Review and submit
- Continuing a submission
- Submitting a revision
- Starting your Editorial Manager submission
once you have logged in, click on Begin Submission to submit a new manuscript.
You can follow your progress through the submission journey using the tracker at the top of the window.
Complete all the stages to submit your manuscript. You can move forward and come back to a section if needed. Fields with a red asterisk [*] are compulsory, and you must complete them to finish your submission.
- Linking your ORCID account
Some journals require you to have an ORCiD account to link your work to your identity. Read our information on the benefits of registering for an ORCiD account.
On the Attach Files step, upload the various files of your manuscript outlined above. Either drag and drop them from your computer, straight on to the web page, or click Browse to go to a file browser window and select the files you require.
Once you have chosen your files, they will automatically upload. There are several drop-down menus to specify the type of file each of your uploads is.
Required files are listed on the left and once the requirement is met, they will tick and turn green.
- Adding general information on Editorial Manager
This section will vary between journals, and asks for further information the journal editor needs to know about your manuscript, such as:
- country of origin
- categorization
- keywords
- other classification
Keywords are free form and allow you to categorize your article more specifically. Keywords can be single words or phrases/sentences and you should separate each with a semicolon. Read our guidance on choosing keywords to make your research more discoverable.
- Adding additional information
The Additional Information page varies between journals, and allows journals to collect answers from an author such as:
- whether the article has been published elsewhere
- funding sources
- conflicts of interest
- various administrative questions
Use this area to add any notes you want to include with your submission. These wont be part of the publication or review of your manuscript.
This section is automatically populated, based on the files you upload in the second step. Here you should check that your Title, Abstract, Authors and Funding Information is correct.
Once you have reviewed your manuscript data, click the Build PDF for Approval button and check over your submission for any issues.
Once you are happy with your PDF proof, submit your manuscript. The submission confirmation screen will show when you have successfully submitted your manuscript to the journal for peer review.
Please note: if you wish to make any changes to your manuscript once you have submitted it, dont start a new submission. Instead, contact the journals Editorial Office for further guidance.
If you have already started your manuscript submission, youll see it on your Author Dashboard under Incomplete Submissions. The system saves automatically at each step for you.
Place your cursor over the Action Links for options to:
- edit and continue
- delete the submission in progress
- send an email to the editor based of a number of template options.
If you need to submit a revision, youll be notified by email and directed to log back in to Editorial Manager. From the Author main menu youll see the manuscript returned to you as Submissions Needing Revision.
Click through to the next page to take action on your submission. You can view the feedback from reviewers/editors and resubmit with your revisions in a similar process as before, while retaining all the submission history.
From the Action Links pop-up menu, you can:
- View Submission: See your submission PDF
- File Inventory: View and download your source documents
- Revise Submission: Takes you through the process of uploading a new version of your manuscript
- Decline to Revise: Moves your submission out of submission status to the Declined Revisions section
- Correspondence: View the correspondence around your submission, including editor and reviewer comments
- Send Email: Send messages to the editor from a selection of templates, or edit as needed
If you need additional help, you can view Editorial Manager video tutorials.