Review Process
SUBMISSION
1. Author makes submission which includes a cover letter specifically outlining why their paper is important.
- See submission guidelines for what documents need to be included in your submission.
2. Editors-in-chief determine whether the submission fits the scope of the journal and is novel. Article can be rejected without further review.
- If accepted, the article will enter the review process.
REVIEW PROCESS
3. The Managing editor assigns the article to a Section Reviewer, specializing in the relevant subdiscipline, and 1 “Expert” Reviewer, including a senior graduate student, post-doctoral fellow or member of the faculty of science.
5. Reviewers send their reviews along with their opinion of accepting, conditional acceptance requiring major or minor revision, or rejecting the submitted article. The Section Reviewer, if necessary, sends the revisions and comments to the author.
7. Author revises and resubmits to Section editor who assesses whether reviewers comments have been addressed and makes the final decision of acceptance or rejection.
- Resubmission will include the revised manuscript, a redlined version of the revised manuscript to highlight the changes, as well as a response to the reviewers to describe the changes made by the author(s).
8. Following acceptance, manuscript is copyedited and typeset by Copyeditor.
9. Final proofreading done by Copyeditor.
10. Final copy of manuscript in finalized format is sent to the author to view.
11. Article sent to layout and graphics Editor to be formatted and incorporated into the current journal issue.
All the steps of the review would occur on the "Open Journal Systems" software that's used by many of these types of journals such as the University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine (UOJM).
