Certain publications have a Technical Check process all submissions to the journal must go through. This is done before a submission is sent out for peer review.

If your submitted paper was sent back to you as it failed the journal's Technical Check, the specific reasons for this are detailed in the e-mail notification. Use this information to make changes, resubmit and include a 'Response to Technical Check'. Typically, this response is a Word (.doc) file detailing all the edits you made. Upload response as a separate file along with your manuscript files when re-submitting.

When you upload the file along with your corrected manuscript it will be embedded into the PDF file created by the submission system (Editorial Manager). The Journal Office will then receive this upon completion of your submission.

View An example of a 'Response To Technical Check' in PDF-format.