Guidelines for Reviewers

When you get invited to handle a submission, please answer right away. If you want to make a desk reject, please enter 2 or 3 sentences in the form, explaining to the authors why their paper is rejected without full review.

If the paper is not desk rejected, start looking for reviewers immediately. We aim to provide authors with the first feedback within 4 months after submission. Often, this requires that you remind reviewers.

When the paper is ready for publication, choose the option "final revision". This will trigger a message to the authors asking them to upload their source files and a signed copyright form. When the authors have uploaded all the files, proceed to the next step.

Contact the reviewers and inform them that we offer the option to be acknowledged (non-anonymously) in a footnote on the title page of the paper. Ask them whether they want to use this option.

Inform the Editor-in-Chief which of the reviewers (if any) want to be acknowledged. In the web review system, choose "Accept".