Manuscript Review Process
We log all article submissions into a database and delete all references to the author. These “blinded” versions then go to the editorial review team for comments and recommendations.
There are three possible outcomes of this review:
- Accept with standard editorial revisions. In this case, the content of the article is accepted without requiring any changes by the author. As always, however, we reserve the right to edit the article for length and style.
- Accept with author revisions. Articles in this category are suitable for publication but first require changes by the author. We provide specific feedback from our reviewers to guide the revision process. We also assign a tentative publication date, assuming the author will submit the revised article by the deadline.
- Decline to publish. Occasionally authors submit articles that do not fit our editorial scope or reader guidelines (such as being too academic or too long). In these situations, we may provide the author with suggestions for modifying the article to make it more appropriate to our publications, but we do not assign a tentative publication date.
Please note that after articles are edited for publication, we do not return them to authors to review/approve unless we have questions about their technical content. We find it is not value-added to debate punctuation, grammar, sentence structure and the other areas that typically get changed during editing. We ask you to trust that we have your best interests, as well as our readers’ interests, in mind.
