How do I assign an editor or section editor to a submission?

Once an author successfully submits an article, the principal contact for the journal will be notified by email. The submission must then be assigned to an editor or section editor, who will be responsible for handling the editorial process and peer review of the manuscript. To do this the Editor must log into their OJS account.

Any new submissions will appear in the ‘Unassigned’ tab and can be accessed by clicking on the ‘View’ button next to the submission.  This will take you through to the ‘Submission’ tab where you can view the submission files and view the cover letter, which appear in the ‘Pre-Review Discussions’ section as the ‘Comments for the Editor’.

Once you have decided to proceed and are ready to assign an Editor or an Associate Editor to handle the submission, you can add this person in the ‘Participants’ section on the right hand side of the page.

Here you will see everyone already linked with the submission and their role.  To add another, you just need to click on ‘Assign’ and in the overlay that appears, select the role you wish to assign, selecting this will bring up a list of all the users that have that role.

You can then choose the person that you wish to assign to the submission, you can then choose to send them a message from the dropdown of predefined messages or by writing your own in the text box provided.