Select Region of Origin

When submitting a manuscript, Authors can select the country or other geographic region from which the submission originates.  The option to select the country or other geographic region is part of the Author’s ‘Submit New Manuscript’ and ‘Submit Revised Manuscript’ interfaces.

The manuscript submission step called ‘Select Region of Origin’ presents the Author with a drop-down list of the countries/regions configured by the journal in PolicyManager.  The Author selects one entry from this list to associate the region of origin with a specific manuscript.  This means that a manuscript can have a ‘Country of Origin’ designation that is different than the Author’s country in the Author’s people record.  This is referred to as the ‘Manuscript Geographic Region of Origin’.

This also means that the journal can configure a list that contains geographic regions that are different than the standard country list.  For example, a region of origin might be Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America, etc.  The Region of Origin could also be non-geographic, like ‘Multi-center’.

The journal can make this an optional or required step, or hide this step so that the Author does not see it.

A journal can use the Author’s country (from the Author’s address record) as the 'Manuscript Geographic Region of Origin'.  If this is the desired behavior, the system will automatically include the Corresponding Author’s country designation (from his/her address record), rather than ask the Author to select a 'Manuscript Geographic Region of Origin' during the submission process.  If 'Manuscript Geographic Region of Origin' is not used, then the journal should leave the 'Set Region of Origin Preferences' as ‘Hidden’ on the ‘Edit Article Type’ page.