Author PDF Approval

You must approve your submission before it is sent to the Journal Office.  Click ‘Submissions Waiting for Author’s Approval’ to bring up a table containing all of your manuscripts that are waiting to be viewed and approved (see below):

Once the PDF version of your manuscript has been created by the system, you will see a set of links in the Action column of the table (far left).

-  ‘View Submission’ allows you to view the PDF version of your submission (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).  You may choose to make alterations to your submission such as spelling corrections, description changes, extra graphics, etc. – you can do this by selecting ‘Edit Submission’.  If there is a problem creating the PDF you’re viewing, there will be a message in the PDF explaining what may have caused the problem. You must view the PDF before you are able to approve it.

-  ‘Edit Submission’ will bring you to the same interface you used when you initially 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 make changes, a new PDF file for you to view and approve will be built.  Once you are satisfied with your submission and are ready to send it to the Journal Office, click ‘Approve Submission’. 

-  ‘Remove Submission’ allows you to remove your manuscript from the system (the Manuscript will never be received by the Journal Office).  You can always remove your submission and start over if you experience problems.

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