Logging In

Once you have received a notification e-mail from EM containing your username and password, you can start to use the system.

Go to the journal’s EM website.  From the main navigation menu at the top of the screen you will see a set of menu options.  Click on ‘LOGIN’ as shown below:

The Editorial Manager Login screen (see below) will be displayed.  Enter your username and password in the appropriate fields.  If you have been asked to review a paper, you should click on the tab labeled ‘Reviewer Login’.  This will display the ‘Reviewer Main Menu’, which will contain a list of functions that you have been given permission to perform on the system.

Within EM there are ‘ROLE’ families to which users belong.  Each role is given a set of permissions and a user can have multiple roles on the Journal.  When a user is first registered they will, by default, belong to the ‘AUTHOR’ family.  If you have been asked to review a paper, then click on the button labeled ‘Reviewer Login’.  However, if at any time in the future you want to submit a paper to the Journal, you would need to click on the button labeled ‘Author Login’.

If the Journal has not allocated the REVIEWER role to your username, the following warning will appear:

You will need to contact the Journal Office and request that they allocate this role to you.

Once you have successfully logged in, the Reviewer Main Menu will display any 'New Reviewer Invitations', 'Pending' or 'Completed' assignments that you may have – these links are also referred to as ‘Folders’.  The number of assignments you have within each folder will be displayed by the side of the entry.