Elsevier Editorial System

Submit your manuscript

EES guides you through the necessary steps to submit your paper.

• Submit your manuscript
• Receive feedback from the reviewers on your paper
• Submit your revisions and comments to the reviewers
• Check the status of your manuscript in EES after submission.
• Receive notifications by e-mail when the status of your manuscript changes or when you need to act.

How to access EES to submit your paper

1. Go to the journal home page of the journal directly or via the Journal Finder
2. Consult the Guide for Authors for the submission instructions
3. Click on Submit your paper
4. Register and / or login in the EES website of the journal
5. Click on the Submit New Manuscript link to start the submission process

Support

The editorial process varies between journals. Use the Guide for Authors of the journal to prepare and submit your paper to your journal of choice.

Our support pages contain Frequently Asked Questions and online tutorials.

Benefits of EES

Journal Management

• Efficiently manage the peer-review process
• Access the full text of articles in Elsevier publications in Science Direct, via Scopus
• Identify potential authors and editorial board members via Scopus
• View your automatically stored correspondence and data for each submission without having to keep paper files

Reviewer Management

• Use the EES Reviewer Database or Scopus to find referees
• Invite reviewers to referee and send reminders with customizable email correspondence
• Link to reviewers’ published work and citation histories, see who their co-authors are and set up citation alerts
• Use topical classification of reviewers’ specialties to suggest reviewers for particular papers

 Reporting

• EES contains many standard reports that inform you on the status of your journal – including a late reviewers report – highlighting the reviewers who have not yet responded
• Upon request custom reports can be configured

Customize

• Design and configure EES specifically to fit the workflow of your editorial office
• Provide journal-specific instructions for authors and reviewers

Training

Elsevier offers you the EES editor training. Please contact your publisher to schedule training from one of our experienced EES Trainers .

Via EES you have access to the tools to effectively and efficiently review manuscripts.

Access to Scopus and ScienceDirect

• Access the largest abstract and citation database Scopus 30-days for free to help facilitate your review. You can also read all abstracts of the articles referenced in the paper under review.
• Access the full text of articles in Elsevier publications in Science Direct, via Scopus for the same 30-day period.

Manage your review

• Check the deadline for your review and track the status of your submitted review.
• View your automatically stored correspondence and data for each submission electronically without having to keep paper files anymore.

Live webinars for reviewers

The EES Training Team offers live webinars for reviewers. Based on the feedback from reviewers Elsevier organizes webinars on how to submit a review in EES.
These live webinars will be hosted twice a day (6am & 12pm EDT/EST), English spoken, on the following dates:

• 6 December 2012
• 19 December 2012
• 3 January 2013
• 15 January 2013

Reviewers who are interested in attending a live webinar (a 15 minute demo followed by a 15 minute live Q&A session), can register directly at the Elsevier Trainingdesk.

Not able to attend a live webinar? Please take a look at our new 2,5 minute instruction video at the Elsevier Trainingdesk.

You are also more than welcome to suggest more reviewer or editor topics for live webinars. Please send your suggestions to the Trainingdesk.

Introduction Consolidated User Accounts

Elsevier has introduced the single username and password across all EES journal websites. Users can log into all the EES websites they are registered with using the single username and password of the consolidated ‘parent’ account. To use the consolidated account, users must first add their existing accounts to the new consolidated account.

New features of consolidated user accounts

• The user’s primary e-mail address is his or her username
• Users’ personal information in EES is standardized across all their journal accounts, to ensure that the same information is available across all their journals.
• The user account owner is responsible for updating his or her personal information. The editorial office or editor can view the personal information, but can no longer change it. If information is incorrect the editor can send an e-mail message to the user as a reminder to update the personal information.
• The user must answer a personally selected security question in EES. If (s)he has forgotten his or her password (s)he will be prompted to answer the security question and answer. If the answer is correct, the user will receive an e-mail message that contains a link to reset the password.
  If an editor or the editorial office proxy-registers a user, the user will be informed automatically. The editor or editorial office cannot cancel the notification message.

Elsevier introduces the new Support Hub for EES.

Aside from generic support information, EES support pages are no longer distributed over the Elsevier.com, but presented in EES itself. This means that when you click on ‘Help’ in EES, the Support Hub opens. When using the Support Hub you will be able to quickly access the right support content that you need. The content is presented per role and per phase in the editorial process to make it easier for you to find the information that you require. The Support Hub also has a sophisticated search function.

Furthermore Elsevier is expanding the Frequently Asked Questions to include French, Spanish and Italian.