Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 23, 95–96 (2002) doi:10.1053/ejvs.2001.1578, available online at http://www.idealibrary.com on Web Manuscript Submission and Tracking System for Peer Review. The Journal Moves With the Times T. V. Schroeder 1 and J. D. Beard 2 1 Department of Vascular Surgery, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 Sheffield Vascular Institute, The Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK The European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Sur- WordPerfect and RTF and image formats including GIF, TIF and JPG. Only PC format is accepted, and gery has implemented an online submission and review system. Authors may now submit manuscripts elec- Mac documents have to be saved in a PC readable format. tronically and track their progress through the system, hopefully to publication. Reviewers can download manuscripts and submit their opinions to the editors. Manuscript Submission The editors can manage the whole submission, peer review and revision process and e-mails are sent auto- Authors can submit manuscripts as single or multiple matically to appropriate parties. Here we introduce files. All submitted files are automatically converted this novelty by explaining the peer review process to a single PDF file for circulation to the selected from submission to acceptance, as applied by the reviewers. The journal office can serve as proxy for European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery . either complete or partial submission of a manuscript. In addition the new associate editors are introduced. For the authors not yet ready to undertake electronic submission, or for those who need to send images by mail, proxy submission allows the journal office to be Background the “helping hands” that complete the submission process. However, most authors will be able to take Speed and efficiency are key points to continued suc- advantage of the full submission. The created PDFs cess in publishing – in print as well as electronically. are size-optimised to accommodate users with low- For years readers and authors of scientific manuscripts bandwidth Internet connections. Links from each have asked for an expeditious peer review process. image in the PDF allow each user (author, editor or The editorial office of the European Journal of Vascular reviewer) to call up a full resolution version of the and Endovascular Surgery has shortened the process by image in a Web browser window. New users must reducing editorial delays and by urging the reviewers register and enter the requested information. There- to respond faster. Still, time is lost due to postal delays after this information remains known to the system, at every stage of the process. A number of journals whether you subsequently enter as an author or as a have recently embarked on web based submission and reviewer. It is imperative that you keep the system tracking systems. After careful consideration we have updated! You can locate Editorial Manager at decided on Editorial Manager∇ , the choice of several www.editorialmanager.com/ejves/ or via the home- other journals from Harcourt as well as from other page of the Journal at www.harcourt-international. publishers. It allows on-line manuscript submission com/journals/ejvs. by authors in standard text formats, such as Word, Peer Review * Please address all correspondence to: T. V. Schroeder, Professor of Vascular Surgery, Editor-in-chief, Deptartment of Vascular Surgery, The manuscript tracking system speeds the peer re- Rigshospitalet 3111, Blegdamsvej 9, DK 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. view process by streamlining the journal office and 1078–5884/02/020095+02 $35.00/0  2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.