What Happens After You Submit

Once you press submit, your manuscript goes through a series of steps before a decision reaches you. Knowing them makes the wait easier and helps you respond well.

Step by step

  1. Confirmation. You receive an email and can see the submission in your author dashboard.
  2. Technical and editorial check. Staff or an editor confirm the files, declarations, consent and formatting are complete, and that the paper fits the journal's scope.
  3. Similarity check. Many journals run the text through a similarity-checking service.
  4. Peer review. The editor invites independent reviewers and collects their reports.
  5. Decision. Accept, minor revisions, major revisions or reject, with the reviewers' comments.
  6. Revision. You revise and reply point by point. The editor, and sometimes the reviewers, check the changes.
  7. Production. After acceptance the paper is copyedited, typeset, sent to you for proof checking and published with a DOI.

What you should do while you wait

  • Do not submit the same manuscript to another journal at the same time.
  • Keep your contact details current and check your spam folder for journal emails.
  • Keep your data, consent forms and figure source files ready in case they are requested.

At ASIDE Case Reports

ASIDE Case Reports follows these steps with double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers. Accepted articles are published open access under CC BY 4.0 with a Crossref DOI. There is no fee at any stage.

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