Some publications have a pre-submission phase, during which Authors are invited to submit articles. The invitation may be for a specific subject area, a symposium in print, or a festschrift honoring a distinguished colleague (e.g., a retiring Editor from an eminent publication).
In the EM system there are two general scenarios in which Author solicitations may occur:
Commentaries: A publication may solicit commentaries on a submitted article (that may or may not have yet been accepted for publication). This feature provides a way to invite an Author to submit a paper and link the existing ("parent") submission to the associated commentaries ("child" submissions).
Proposals: A publication may invite a leading expert (or experts) to submit a manuscript on a particular topic; or a publication may devote an entire issue (special issue) to invited manuscripts for a particular topic(s). This feature provides a way to invite Authors to submit papers and link the submissions to each other and to the Proposal for the purpose of tracking.
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