Manuscript Submission

Blackwell publishes journals across a wide range of subject disciplines. If you would like to find out more about the content of Blackwell journals, in order to decide where to submit your paper, you can visit the Subject sites to find the various journals in your discipline or view the full A-Z list of journals. 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 determine if a 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. 

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

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.

Saving your files

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

• PC or Mac formatted floppy disks 
• CD-ROMs
• Zip disks  

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.