Manuscript Submission

Wiley publishes journals across a wide range of subject disciplines. If you would like to find out more about the content of Wiley journals, in order to decide where to submit your paper, please use our Find a Journal Service. You can then visit the journal home page to review a journals Aims & Scope or sign up to receive regular tables of contents alerts. 

Many journals now offer manuscript submission via Manuscript Central^TM. Please review the Author Guidelines' for a specific journal to learn about its submission requirements and determine if the journal accepts manuscripts via Manuscript Central and to read specific guidelines. Use the Author Guidelines by Journal link from the section at right to view guidelines for your chosen journals. 

Submitting Manuscripts via Manuscript Central^TM

To submit a manuscript, please follow the instructions below. 

Authors: Please note that Manuscript Central is a separate application. You will need a Manuscript Central account for each journal to which you want to submit a paper.

Getting Started 

1. Launch your web browser (supported browsers include Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Netscape 7.0, 7.1, or 7.2, Safari 1.2.4, or Firefox 1.0.4) and go to the journals Manuscript Central homepage (Use the Author Guidelines by Journal link from the section at right. The Guidelines provides a link to the specific journal submission website.) 
2. Log-in or click the Create Account option if you are a first-time user of Manuscript Central. 
3. If you are creating a new account: 
   1. After clicking on Create Account enter your name and e-mail information and click Next. Your e-mail information is very important. 
   2. Enter your institution and address information as prompted then click Next. 
   3. Enter a user ID and password of your choice (we recommend using your e-mail address as your user ID) and then select your area of expertise. Click Finish when done. 
   4. If you have an account but have forgotten your log in details, go to Password Help on the journals Manuscript Central homepage and enter your email address. The system will send you an automatic user ID and password reminder.
4. Log-in and select Author Center.

Submitting Your Manuscript 

1. After you have logged in, click the Submit a Manuscript link in the menu bar. 
2. Enter data and answer questions as prompted 
3. Click on the Next button on each screen to save your work and advance to the next screen. 
4. You are required to upload your files: 
   1. Click on the Browse button and locate the file on your computer.
   2. Select the designation of each file in the drop-down next to the Browse button.
   3. When you have selected all files you wish to upload, click the Upload button. 
      a. NOTE: you have a limit of 100MB combined for all files you upload. 
   4. Review your submission (in both PDF and HTML formats) before sending to the Editors. Click the Submit button when you are done reviewing.   

You may suspend a submission at any phase before clicking the Submit button and save it to submit later. After submission, you will receive a confirmation via e-mail. You can also log-on to Manuscript Central any time to check the status of your manuscript. The Journal will notify you by e-mail once a decision has been made. 

Getting Help With Your Submission 

Each page of the Manuscript Central website has a Get Help Now icon connecting directly to the online support system at http://mcv3support.custhelp.com. Queries can also be e-mailed to support@scholarone.com and telephone support is available 24 hours a day, 5 days a week through the US ScholarOne support office: +1 434 817 2040, ext 167. If you do not have Internet access or cannot submit online, the Editorial Office will help with online submissions. Please contact the Editorial Office, by telephone, or by e-mail. Contact details are available at the journal home page (using the Author Guidelines by Journal link at the right).

Preparing Manuscripts for Submission

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Permission & Copyright Assignment

The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission to republish or reproduce all previously published and copyrighted material—in print and other media—from the publisher of the original source. The corresponding author is also responsible for completing and returning to the editorial office or the publisher the journal-specific copyright transfer form, and any financial disclosure forms that might be required for a particular journal. Permission Request Forms and Copyright Transfer Forms are found on each journal’s website and are also available from the journal’s editorial office.

For more information about copyright, please see our FAQ at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp

For more information regarding what types of material require permission, authors should refer to the list of frequently asked questions on the Wiley Permissions website.

Text

For initial submissions, please review the Author Guidelines' page of the specific journal homepage using the link at the right. 

• For journals not using an Electronic Editorial Office system (e.g. Manuscript Central), the final hard copy version and the file on disk must be the same
• Include all parts of the text of the paper in a single file. The ideal sequence is: 
  • Header (title, short title, authors, addresses, correspondence details including e-mail address, abstract, keywords, etc.)
  • Body of article
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Figure legends
  • Table legends and tables
  • Appendices  
• Take care not to use l (ell) for 1 (one), O (capital o) for 0 (zero) or ß (German esszett) for ß (beta) 
• Use a tab, not spaces, to separate data points in tables If you use a table editor, do not use carriage returns within cells  

Unless specified otherwise in the journal instructions, the text should be sent in an MS Word-compatible format (not as a PDF).

Figures

Where possible, digital versions of your figures should also be sent, with each figure saved as a separate file in TIFF or EPS format. See our Electronic Artwork guidelines for full details.

Supporting Information (formerly known as Supplementary Material)

Wiley-Blackwell is able to host online approved supporting information that authors submit with their paper. Supporting information must be important, ancillary information that is relevant to the parent article but which does not or cannot appear in the printed edition of the journal. Authors should consult the individual journal's author guidelines to see whether supporting information is accepted. For more information please see: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/suppmat.asp

References

It is the responsibility of authors to ensure that their references are complete and have been properly prepared. Authors can refer to recent papers published in a journal for specifics of citation style for different types of communications. Wiley journal citation formats are contained within Endnote and Reference Manager, and can be downloaded here.

Saving your files

For those journals not yet using Manuscript Central, we can accept the following:

• E-mail
• CD-ROMs

For some journals, files may be submitted by ftp; full details will be provided upon acceptance of your manuscript.

View information about how to obtain offprints  of your published article. 

After Acceptance

Pre-Publication Process

After acceptance, the editorial office forwards materials to the publisher (Wiley), where the production department transforms the manuscript files into an article. Proofs are available for the author’s review prior to online and/or print publication for most journals. Depending on the journal’s color reproduction policy, authors may initially be notified by the production department and given an estimate of fees associated with printing the color figures. Following the copyediting of the article for style, grammar, nomenclature, and proper type-marking codes, the typesetter outputs page proofs and notifies the author via an e-mail alert that the proofs are available for viewing. This generally occurs between three to six weeks after a manuscript arrives in a journal’s production office.

Proofreading

Proofs are openly accessible for downloading via a secure site for a two-week period, so it is critical that the e-mail address on the original manuscript is correct. If an author suspects a delay or mistake in the proof notification process, or would like to better pinpoint the timing of the proof review, the production editor listed on the specific journal’s homepage should be contacted.

It is the author's responsibility to review the proofs and to mark all necessary corrections. Except under special circumstances, no further changes may be made once the marked proofs have been returned to us for processing.

Correction Process

At the time of download, detailed instructions on how to review the proofs and how to communicate changes or questions back to the production department are provided. In general, the review stage requires authors to read through the pages carefully and mark any changes in a clear and legible fashion, either in the margin, on a separate sheet, or electronically within the PDF document if using the Notes Tool (instructions are provided).

Authors are expected to make only essential corrections, marking any errors according to the appropriate author guidelines. To ensure proper interpretation of corrections, it is essential to use the correct case and punctuation. Authors should check to see if there are any copyeditor queries to answer, and note that this is likely to be the only opportunity to review the proofs prior to publication.

Note that the proof e-mail link is accessible for a limited time. To avoid delays in the article’s publication or the issue in which the article is scheduled to appear, proofs should be returned within 48 hours of receipt. This is particularly important for EarlyView journals. Proofs may be returned either by standard mail, fax, or e-mail.

Some publications do not require the page proofs to be checked by the author. In this case, the proofs are sent directly to the editor of the journal for review.

Electronic Proofs

Some journals e-mail proofs of a paper for the author’s approval. The proofs are in the form of a PDF file, readable with Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is freely available from www.adobe.com.

If provided, Copyright Transfer Agreement and Offprint Order Form must be returned in the same timely fashion.

Please Note

While your corrections are important to us, we do reserve the right to publish your article as typeset with no further corrections; this is not something we normally do. We emphasize that corrections must be received in a timely manner. Permission Grants, Copyright Transfer Agreements, and all other applicable forms should be completed and returned along with the proofs, if not already provided.

Questions

Authors should address their questions to the staff members indicated on each journal's home page. The production editor for each journal is happy to help as much as possible, and is the person most familiar with the requirements for each individual publication.

Publication Timeline

Every journal has a different schedule. The timing of the review process is entirely in the hands of the editorial office, and each journal has a unique manuscript flow that will impact the production editor’s ability to prepare it for publication. In general, once a paper is accepted and sent to Wiley, we aim to publish the article online [as EarlyView] within 6-8 weeks. The article will be published in a print issue shortly thereafter. Please note that online publication constitutes official publication. After a manuscript has been sent to Wiley, authors will receive an e-mail invitation to register the article in Author Services for production tracking, and for most journals, free online access upon publication. The access policy varies amongst journals.

Tracking My Articles

Authors can add their accepted manuscripts to My Publications in Author Services and track their progress through the production process. For more information, please see our Author Services FAQ at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/faqs.asp#authorserv

Official Publication

Once all corrections have been communicated to the production editor, and if the Editor has given approval (this depends on each journal’s specific policy), the production editor arranges to have the article corrected and subsequently posted on our website. Online publication constitutes official publication, so there are no further opportunities for ‘checking’ proofs.

In general, articles are published on the web (via interscience.wiley.com) prior to their print publication. Authors receive either a copy of the print issue in which their article appears or a quantity of reprints, depending on individual journal policy. Additional opportunities to order offprints of an article are provided during the proofing stage or via a link on interscience.wiley.com. By registering the article in Author Services, authors of most journals have free access in perpetuity to the published article.

About DOIs

Page proofs contain a code on the opening page. This data represents an article’s digital object identifier, or DOI, which is an industry standard that will register the article’s unique number upon publication. Additional explanation on DOI is accessible here.

Offprint Information

Offprint order forms are sent to authors with their proofs, which should be used to order all offprints. The order form must be returned with the proofs. Late orders may be charged at higher rates (orders will not be processed if received after the issue has gone to press). There is a minimum order quantity of 100 copies. Author Services provides a link to order printed offprints for many journals; additional journals will be added to this service over time.

Reprint Information

Authors interested in purchasing reprints of an article published on Wiley InterScience, should complete this form. Following receipt, a representative will contact the author with options on pricing, formats, terms, and other relevant details.

The National Institutes of Health Public Access Initiative

See http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/NIH_policy.asp