Author Guide to Online Peer Review Service

When all reviews are complete and have been submitted to the editor, the editor will make a decision. If you are asked to revise your manuscript, you will receive an email inviting you to review the peer review comments and revise your manuscript in Editorial Manager.

When you land on your manuscript in Editorial Manager, you should view the peer review by following the 'View and reply to reviews' link. You should do this before you begin any upload of revised files."

• By clicking this link, you will be taken to the Online peer review service.
• Select the individual icons such as R1, R2, E, etc. to open each set of comments. You can move between the reviewers' detailed comments and the reviewer’s summary by selecting ‘Comments’ or ‘Summary’ under the reviewer details in the sidebar.
• When reading the reviewers’ comments, you can select the quoted content immediately above the comment. This will scroll your manuscript to the quoted content and highlight it on your manuscript. See a sample screenshot here.
• Before uploading the revision to Editorial manager, you should respond to the reviewer and editor comments in the online peer review service as the editor will see these comments when they examine your revised manuscript.

You can now download the reviewer comments by selecting the "Export review" option.

If the online version of the manuscript is not visible in Quantum, it indicates that the online version was not generated for the submission. In this case, reviewer and editor comments can be found in the Summary tab.

Before uploading the revision to Editorial manager, you should respond to the reviewer and editor comments in the online peer review service as the editor will see these comments when they examine your revised manuscript.

After responding to the reviewer and editor comments in the online peer review service you can get back to the Editorial Manager to submit the revision.

You should not submit a response to reviewers as part of uploading your revision, as your replies to reviewers should be in the online peer review service.

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• How do I revise my submission in Editorial Manager?
• Could you extend the due date of my revision?

You can revisit your paper by selecting ‘View reviews’ in Editorial Manager to see it any time, or simply follow the link to your manuscript from any email previously sent to you.

The editor will review your revised manuscript. They may send it back to the peer reviewers, in which case you will be notified and able to view any follow-on comments. Otherwise, if the editor chooses to accept your manuscript, you will be informed by email.

Please see this FAQ for information on how Article transfer service works for authors.