Correcting Your Proofs
When your accepted manuscript enters production, it will be sent to our professional copyeditors to be conformed to our house style; it is then paged into page proofs and returned to you for correction. This initial step takes approximately 3-6 weeks.
If the Journal is supported by Editorial Manager©, proofs are sent to the Corresponding Author via Editorial Manager production tracking system together with detailed instructions for the Journal. Alternatively, your proofs will be emailed to you by the Production Editors of the Journal.
How you return your corrections is very important and following our instructions improves the speed and accuracy of publication.
Corrections and replies to all our queries should be submitted immediately, as subsequent corrections may not be guaranteed and could delay the publication of your article. Please check your proofs carefully as their precision is entirely the responsibility of the Authors.
Please note that significant changes to the content of your article will only be accepted after approval of the Editor in Chief.
The guidelines below are to help you to use the most advanced tools and a brief guide to correcting your proofs with Adobe is available for download.
To annotate your corrections on the proof (pdf) you should have Adobe Reader 7.0 (or newer version). This is a free programme which is available for PC, Mac, and UNIX. You can download it from http://get.adobe.com/reader/
System requirements are indicated in the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/tech-specs.html
If for any reason you are unable to annotate your corrections on the PDF proof, list your corrections in an e-mail or on a separate Word document and return it to the Production Editor of the Journal.
We are only able to accept a corrected PDF proof and not a corrected version of your manuscript.
If the Journal is supported by Editorial Manager©, proofs are sent to the Corresponding Author via Editorial Manager production tracking system together with detailed instructions for the Journal. Alternatively, your proofs will be emailed to you by the Production Editors of the Journal.
How you return your corrections is very important and following our instructions improves the speed and accuracy of publication.
Corrections and replies to all our queries should be submitted immediately, as subsequent corrections may not be guaranteed and could delay the publication of your article. Please check your proofs carefully as their precision is entirely the responsibility of the Authors.
Please note that significant changes to the content of your article will only be accepted after approval of the Editor in Chief.
The guidelines below are to help you to use the most advanced tools and a brief guide to correcting your proofs with Adobe is available for download.
To annotate your corrections on the proof (pdf) you should have Adobe Reader 7.0 (or newer version). This is a free programme which is available for PC, Mac, and UNIX. You can download it from http://get.adobe.com/reader/
System requirements are indicated in the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/tech-specs.html
If for any reason you are unable to annotate your corrections on the PDF proof, list your corrections in an e-mail or on a separate Word document and return it to the Production Editor of the Journal.
We are only able to accept a corrected PDF proof and not a corrected version of your manuscript.