So you have finished writing your article and are ready to submit your manuscript to a scholarly journal. It is important to understand that the process of scholarly publishing involves a number of crucial steps that require your attention.

• Following submission of the article, if accepted for editorial review, your manuscript will be read, edited and returned to you several times in order to ensure that it meets the submission requirements of the journal. It is most often a requirement that the work be original.
• The process of peer review is undertaken by the majority of scholarly journals and is a means by which the journal can ensure that it publishes articles of a high academic standard.

Elsevier. (n.d.). Journal Publishing at Elsevier. Retrieved from http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/glance_1

Peer review

You are required to address all comments and suggestions made during the peer review and editorial process and provide justification for your decisions.

Proofreading

The final proofreading is your last opportunity to edit your paper prior to publication, so proofread carefully!