For initial submission of your paper for peer review, Elsevier journals will accept online submission, e-mail submission or submission of a disk or printed copy. Please see the journal's individual 'Guide for Authors' for further information.

Online and E-mail Submission
To speed up the submission process, Elsevier offers online and/or e-mail submission for most of its journals. To see if the journal you have chosen allows this feature, please check the journal home page or the journal's 'Guide for Authors'.

Disk Submission
Elsevier publishes all manuscripts using electronic production methods, and therefore needs to receive the electronic files of your article along with the hard copy of the accepted version. To ensure fast and easy processing of your submission, please adhere to the following guidelines:

• Save text and graphics on separate disks
• Label all disks with your name, a short version of the article title, the journal to be published in, and the filenames Please also include details of the software platform (PC, Mac, Unix, etc) used to create your files
• Ensure that the files on the disk match the hard copy exactly. In case of a discrepancy, the hard copy version will be used as the definitive version by the production team.

Where to send your paper
Each journal has its own editors and editorial boards for submission of papers. To find the editorial address for the publication you are interested in, go to that journal's homepage and check the journal's 'Guide for Authors'.