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31 January 2023 New documentation pages We are happy to announce the opening of our new documentation website.Help links will now direct to this website, where all users may retrieve help articles and release notes. Editorial board page improvements This p...

This is where you will invite referees, un-invite, send reminders, consult the reports, etc. (these actions are explained in detail here). The information is related to each revision. If you want to have a global view of the referee process, please click ...

This is where you will propose or take the editorial decision, and consult it. Those actions are detailed here. For each version, all proposal/decisions are stored in this module. Clicking on the recommendation will open the corresponding decision letter. ...

All e-mails sent from Nestor are stored and accessible at any time. The list of messages can be shortened with the 'Masking menu', you can choose which kind of messages you want to hide. Similarly to referee management, a global view of e-mails...

If you are an Editor-in-Chief, you will likely assign articles to other editors (e.g. Associate Editors, Guest Editors, etc.). Click on the ‘Assign an Editor’ menu and select the editor you want to assign. This opens the confirmation window, proposing you assi...

In the referee module, click on the ‘Invite a referee’ button.   You can search a referee using different criteria: e-mail address, last name, first name, or expertise fields if the journal uses them. For any search, please type in at least 2 letters a...

Actions on referees Once a referee has been invited to review an article, it is listed in the referee module for this version. The module keeps track of the status of each referee and proposes relevant actions to manage them: Here is the detail ...

Please click on the recommendation to open the referee report. You can edit the referee’s questionnaire, comments and recommendation. You can upload a referee attachement (or replace it, if needed). In case the referee has uploaded more than one file, the...

Accessing decisions Once expected reports are received on a version, the article will switch to 'Waiting editorial decision'. This unlocks new actions in the decision module: If these buttons are missing, this means that there is still at least one refer...

15 March 2023 Automated editor reminders Editors may now receive automated reminders by e-mail!The idea is to send, on a regular basis, the to-do list summary to each editor. The formatted e-mail will look like this: This will save time to editors and e...

The current editor is responsible for moving an article forward: If an editorial action is expected (such as an assignment or a decision), then the current editor is responsible for performing this action If an author or referee action is expected, the cur...

The editor in charge of a manuscript is responsible of the scientific evaluation, oversee the review process, and proposes the final decision. Contrary to the current editor, the editor in charge remains the same throughout the life of the article. Let us con...

For a given article, editorial responsibility is indicated by the colored tags in the assignment module. Note that the editor in charge and the current editor can be the same person! In fact, this will be the case for most of the article life. Becoming ...

Depending on his/her profile, an editor can either propose or take a decision on a version (cf. the related editor guide). This is defined in the article workflow rights: Decisions and proposals: purposes Your journal may or may not ...

04 May 2023 Ajax everywhere Thanks to Ajax, Nestor quits refreshing whole pages each time you edit an article! Now, Nestor refreshes only necessary parts, in the background. On the whole, response times and user experience feels much faster. Editor interfac...

The due date is indicated in the upper part of the article page. The due date indicates: who must take action to move the article forward? when is the action due? According to the article status, it is used: as a deadline for the edit...

Automatic reminders are configured here, they are sorted by family of recipients: Author and referee reminders Author and referee reminders work similarly. Every morning after coffee, Nestor will check all articles submitted in the journal: for each...

File types may be configured in the journal configuration, where file types are listed, and may be created, updated, or deleted: Clicking on “Edit file type” will get you to the file type configuration, where the following options must be edited for any giv...

I cannot send my decision on this article, why? If the buttons are unavailable in the decision module, this means either the status of the article does not allow a decision, or your profile does not have the right to take the decision. Most of the time, th...

Nestor provides a wide choice of tools to categorize articles: For a specific article, categories are available and may be corrected in the metadata module. Category name Particularities Expertise fields Tree structure Used to categ...