All of the journals we publish offer state-of-the art systems to handle the entire peer review process online.

We, together with our parent body, the Society for Endocrinology, have been pioneers in this area. We initiated a consortium of publishers, including several learned societies, which collaborated together to develop one of the very first such systems – Espere (electronic submission and peer review). This forward thinking enabled us to offer online manuscript submission well before many larger publishers, a move that was very popular with authors, referees and editors.

Now we use one of the foremost and most sophisticated systems, Manuscript Central from ScholarOne. This enables authors to submit their manuscript in the format that is easiest for them, and automatically creates PDF and HTML versions to suit the preferences of reviewers. Editors can allocate reviewers and monitor their performance entirely online, and authors can view their papers’ progress at any time. The system automates reminders to reviewers, and allows the allocation of ‘reserve’ reviewers who will automatically be contacted if the initial reviewers fail to report. The entire process can be managed by the experienced peer review team in our Bristol office, or by your own editorial staff, depending on your needs and those of your journal.

Upon acceptance, the article’s files flow seamlessly into our production system, through to final publication, minimizing delays and human error.