Editorial Support

Reviewers play the most important role in transforming a manuscript into a high quality journal article. It is our approach to provide them with review tools for independent handling of the different working steps. On the other hand, our aim is to assist them at any time personally through intensive editorial support whenever a problem may arise.

The following steps can be managed online in communication with our editorial support system whereas all information and action requirements are provided automatically via email:

• Author's referee proposal during the manuscript registration;
• Call-for-Editors based on journal subject areas or nomination by Chief-Editors;
• Editor's acceptance of the review and nomination of referees;
• Call-for-Referees;
• Referee's acceptance of the review;
• Upload of the referee reports;
• Upload of the editor report;
• Technical corrections editor – author, minor revisions and major revisions;
• Final acceptance of the manuscript.

We offer extra options with regard to Chief-Editor decisions or blind/double-blind review processes. All options can be combined individually to tailor our tools in order to meet the various requirements of the various communities and editorial policies.