Submit Early Decision on New Submission

Authorized Editors/editorial staff may submit an early decision on a submission without formally assigning an Editor.

A Submit Early Decision link appears in the following folders: New Submissions, New Submissions Requiring Assignment, and Direct-to-Editor New Submissions. The link also appears in Search Submissions – Search Results, when the submission is located in one of these folders.

To submit an early decision:

Click the Submit Early Decision link to open the Submit Early Decision pop-up window.
Identify an Editor to be associated with the early decision. This Editor will be automatically assigned and credited with the selected editorial decision. Options displayed for selecting an Editor depend on user permissions:
- Assign to Me: Select this option to display the decision form.
- Editor: Select this option and use the drop-down menu to select an Editor Role. Then choose a specific Editor (in that role) to display the decision form.
Complete the Editor Form.
- Select the Decision term from the drop-down menu.
- Complete other configured elements of the form.
When finished, click the applicable button at the bottom of the page to continue. (This action saves the selected Editor and decision.) The button displayed depends on user permissions:
- Submit Decision: Users who do not have permission to send the Author notification letter continue to a confirmation message that the decision has been forwarded to an Editor who can notify the Author of the early decision.
- Proceed: Users who have permission to send the Author notification letter proceed to the Notify Author page to send the letter.

Note: If the user clicks the Cancel button on the Send Letter page, the submission moves to the My Assignments with a Decision folder of the Editor selected in step #2.