The journal publishing process

We know it’s important to you to have your research published as quickly as possible. Our journals offer Article Level Publishing (ALP) that allows an article to be typeset, proofed and published online in its final and citable form within an average of 32 business days of acceptance.

2-8 months

1. Submit 2. Editor Check 3. Decision 4. Revisions

Submit your research through your Your paper will then be read by the Once the reviewers have You will receive an email from the chosen journal’s online submission journal Editor to see if it fits with read your paper, they will Editor containing the final decision. site. You will need to register for an the aims and scope of the journal. If make one of the following If you are asked to make revisions, account to do this. you have submitted to an academic recommendations: you have 30 days to resubmit for journal, they will enter it into a Once your account is set up, you • Accept • Minor revisions minor revisions, and 90 days to rigorous, double-blind peer review will be guided through a 7-step • Major revisions • Reject resubmit for major revisions. process which considers the quality, submission process. The final decision lies with the originality, approach and clarity of Once you have resubmitted Editor. Reviewer feedback on your paper. your paper, it will be reassigned the paper will be provided to to the same reviewers to check the corresponding author. whether their comments have Note, if the paper is outside been addressed. the journal’s scope, the Editor may reject it and suggest it is If sufficient improvements have transferred to a more relevant been made, your paper will be Emerald journal. accepted. If not, you may be asked to perform multiple revisions or have your paper withdrawn.

32 Days

5. Typesetting 6. Author Proofs 7. Earlycite 8. Publication

Once accepted, your paper is Your proof must be returned to the Once proofs are returned, When a journal issue is available for immediately processed by our typesetters within 10 working days. corrections are made by the your article to be published in, the in-house team, who check the If this deadline cannot be met, any typesetting team, then final proofs typeset files will be reworked by the copyright forms and whether third- outstanding queries will be resolved are sent to the journal’s content typesetting team to add pagination, party permissions (if applicable) have by the Emerald team. Editors for final checks. Once this is volume and issue details. The been provided. complete, your paper is published re-supplied files will be re-loaded through EarlyCite. to our online platform, moving Your paper is then sent to our from the EarlyCite container to the typesetting team, who will perform Your paper is now a fully citable, relevant volume and issue number. further quality checks and prepare published article with a DOI number. Where applicable, a print copy will PDF proofs. You will receive an email The article can be promoted, then be produced. link to the PDF proofs, along with downloaded and referenced. a query form that highlights any Your published article will remain on inconsistencies, grammar, table/ EarlyCite until it is assigned to figure and referencing errors that an issue. need resolving before publication.

Please note, the timelines given are for guidance only, and are subject to change. 19740 11/19