Completing and approving your submission

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Before your submission is sent to the Journal Office, You must first approve it. Go to “Submissions Waiting for Author’s Approval” to bring up a table containing all of your manuscripts that are waiting to be viewed and approved. Once the PDF version of your manuscript has been created by the system (this may take a few minutes once you have uploaded your files or as long as 30-60 minutes depending on the size of files), you will see a set of links in the Action column (far left).

View submission

You must click “View Submission” to view the PDF version of your submission before submitting it to the office. (If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your system, simply click the “Get Acrobat Reader” icon at the bottom of the Submissions Needing Approval menu and follow the instructions from Adobe’s web site). Please check to make sure all files have been loaded correctly. If text appears garbled, please increase your View to Zoom at 150%. If this does not resolve the problem, make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat.

 

Edit submission

If you need to make changes to your submission, select “Edit Submission”. This link will bring you to the same interface you used when you first submitted the manuscript. You can remove or add files at the Attach Files portion of the submission if you need to change anything. If you do make changes, you must then rebuild the PDF file and approve it.

 

Approve submission

Once you are satisfied with your submission and are ready to send it to the journal office, click “Approve Submission”.

When you approve your submission, it will be filed in the “Submissions Being Processed” list in your Author Main Menu.

 
Please note that unless you approve your submission, it will not be considered complete and sent to the Journal Office!

Remove submission

You may also choose to remove your manuscript from the system by selecting “Remove Submission”. You can always remove your submission and start over if you experience problems.