Introduction to ScholarOne Manuscripts™

• Published date: 01 November 2016
• Date: 01 November 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/jcaf.22216

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DOI 10.1002/jcaf.22216

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Introduction to ScholarOne

Manuscripts™

Michael Ehrlich

ScholarOne Manuscripts is

an online software tool from

Thomson Reuters that jour-

nals use to manage the review,

revision, and workflow of

submitted manuscripts. Origi-

nally designed to facilitate the

double-blind peer-review process,

it can be customized to accept

other manuscript types. Today,

ScholarOne is used by over

3,400 journals to provide end-to-

end workflow management.

The Journal of Corporate

Accounting & Finance (JCAF)

has been using ScholarOne

Manuscripts since late 2015 for

academic submissions requiring

peer review and has expanded

use of the ScholarOne tool to

accept all JCAF manuscripts

starting with this issue. All

JCAF authors will now be

using ScholarOne for submis-

sion, revision, and tracking

of their articles. Editors and

reviewers will also be using

ScholarOne for their work on

behalf of JCAF. This introduc-

tion is written to help explain

the changes that current and

prospective authors can expect

in using this new web-based

journal management tool.

Authors typically begin

the process of submitting a

manuscript to JCAF by going

to the journal home page,

which is hosted as part of the

Wiley Online Library and can

be found by Googling “Journal

of Corporate Accounting and

Finance” or at this url: http://

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/

10.1002/(ISSN)1097-0053.

Once there, they can navi-

gate to the “Submit an Article”

link under “For Contributors,”

which is found under the

“Journal Menu” in the left-

hand column. First-time

authors are strongly encour-

aged to navigate to the “Author

Guidelines” (found just above

“Submit an Article”) and care-

fully read the JCAF Editorial

Guidelines before submitting.

The “Submit an Article”

link will redirect submit-

ting authors to the Scholar-

One JCAF site at https://

mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcaf,

where they will be invited to

log in if they are already regis-

tered users, or will be directed

to create an account for new

users of JCAF ScholarOne.

Some authors may already be

familiar with ScholarOne from

other journals, but will need to

create a JCAF account if they

are new to JCAF. The creation

of a new account is an easy

three-step process of entering

your name/e-mail address, insti-

tution and address and institu-

tion information, and selecting

a user ID and password.

Once logged into the JCAF

ScholarOne site, selecting

“Author” from the top naviga-

tion bar will bring one to the

“Author Dashboard.” The

submission is started by click-

ing “Begin Submission” and

will bring the author to “Step 1:

Type, Title, and Abstract.” At

this point, authors must indi-

cate the type of manuscript

they intend to submit. Different

submission types will generate

the required workflow for that

type. For example, “Blind Peer

Review” is the only type that

will require authors to submit

a separate title page from their

main manuscript, as this is

required to maintain the double-

blind review process. For a

“Commentary” like this one, a

title (Introduction to Scholar-

One Manuscripts) and running