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The following Guide has been designed to help you get published in an Elsevier publication as
quickly and easily as possible. While certain journals have longer publication schedules, and there
can be unforeseen delays, there are several things you can do as an author to expedite the process.
For detailed instructions for an individual journal, please go to the journal page and visit their
‘Guide for Authors’ section.
Submission Checklist
Before sending your paper to the journal's Editor, please make sure that you have included all
necessary details. Please consult the journal's Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
For all submissions (online, by e-mail or on CD), please make sure you have provided:
(1)Name of the author designated as the corresponding author, along with their:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
• Keywords and/or classification codes, if required.
See the journal's ‘Guide for Authors’ for details.
( ) The names and addresses of potential Referees, if required. See the journal's Guide for
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Authors for details.
( 3 ) Ensure that online submission or submission by e-mail text files are in a standard word
processing format (Word, WordPerfect or LaTeX are preferred). Alternatively, they can be
submitted in PostScript format.
(4)Ensure that graphics are high-resolution. Preferred formats are either TIFF or EPS. Be sure
all necessary files have been uploaded/attached. All figure captions are available.
(5)All tables are present (including title, description, footnotes).
Further considerations:
(1)Ensure your manuscript has been ‘spell checked’.
(2)Check that references are in the correct format for the journal. (See the journal's ‘Guide for
Authors’ for details.)
(3)All references mentioned in the Reference list must be cited in the text, and vice versa.
(4)Verify that permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources
(including the Web).
(5)Color figures should be clearly marked as being intended for color reproduction on the Web
(free of charge) and in print or to be reproduced in color on the Web (free of charge) and in
black and white in print. If color is only required on the Web, black and white versions of
the figures must also be supplied for printing purposes.
Editing Checklist
When preparing your paper for submission, please use the following checklist to address some of
the more common errors and grammar mistakes. This will help expedite the submission process.
(1)Grammar and Syntax
·Check your paper thoroughly for spelling errors, especially in your medical/technical
terminology.
·Use correct word inflection. Inflection is the addition of affixes to the word to change its
relationship to the other words in a sentence. For example, the -s in dogs or the -ed in
played.
·Use proper syntax in the entire document. Syntax refers to the combination of words and
symbols that form correct sentence structure.
·Check for correct subject-verb agreement. (‘They is going…’ should be corrected to ‘They are
going...’)
·Check for proper use of definite articles (the) and indefinite articles (a, an).
·Check for proper use of prepositions (of, to, on, onto,etc.).
·Check for complete and correct punctuation (full stops at the end of sentences, proper use of
commas, semicolons, etc.).
·Check for spelling inconsistencies of the same word within the article.
·Be consistent in the use of units of measurement.
·Avoid inconsistencies in active form (John threw the ball.) and passive form (The ball was
thrown by John.).
·Be mindful of the rules and structure for switching between first and third person (switching
from using the ‘I’ form to using the ‘he, she, you or they’ forms)
·Ensure proper use of metaphors and figures of speech.
·Be consistent in the use of British or American English spelling.
·Check for consistency in the use of a decimal comma (47,9) or a decimal point (47.9).
(2)Style and Formatting
·Check your journal's Guide for Authors for information about symbols and characters, and for
artwork instructions.
·If English is not your native language, we recommend that you use a language editing service
to improve the English language quality in your paper. We have successfully negotiated with
a number of language editing companies to provide their services to you at competitive rates.
·Review and complete your submission checklist. A generic submission checklist is available,
but be sure to check your journal's Guide for Authors. Many Guides include a more specific
submission checklist.
Technical Screening
We have begun extending our “Feedback Programmes” to Editors for structured feedback, and to
Reviewers – who also play key roles in the evaluation process, for their opinions.
A comment which we repeatedly receive from Reviewers, is that they feel they are too frequently
asked to review manuscripts which are of an insufficient quality from a purely technical
viewpoint, i.e. poor language, incomplete, inconsistent or outdated references, uninformative
abstract, poor quality illustrations, non-adherence to the “Guide for Authors”, etc.
Reviewers are becoming increasingly overloaded with requests to review manuscripts, and there is
an increasing feeling that we, as the Publisher, should perhaps take more active measures to ensure
that all manuscripts which are sent out for peer review, should at least adhere to a set of minimum
technical standards. We also realise that you as Editor, would rather spend your time evaluating
research on the basis of its creative and intellectual content, rather than having to spend time and
effort annotating the technical insufficiencies of the manuscript.
On the basis of this feedback, and in order to reduce Reviewers’ workload, we have instituted a
new programme whereby all submitted manuscripts will be initially screened, purely on the basis
of technical standards, to evaluate whether they are suitable for passing through into the formal
peer review process. Manuscripts which do not meet this set of minimum technical standards will
be first returned to the submitting Author(s) with a check-list of missing or insufficient items. The
Author(s) will be given the opportunity to resubmit after attending to these technical
insufficiencies. We believe that this technical screening will not only provide useful feedback to
Authors, but will also help to resolve the issue of Reviewers receiving papers for review which are
technically sub-standard.
Since the advent of online submission, we have noticed a general surge of submissions from
developing countries, where Authors are often less familiar with the conventions of international
journals, and thus particular attention will be paid to manuscripts from these countries, although
all submitted manuscripts will be screened in principle.
With an increasing number of the submissions coming from Asian countries, this technical
screening process will be coordinated from our Beijing office, but will be fully integrated into the
ongoing EES work process, with which you are already familiar.
To implement the technical screening initiative for your journal, please contact your Publishing
Editor