Environment Contaminants Reviews (ECR) use Editorial Manager for online submission and manuscript tracking. We’ve created a step-by-step guide to help you through the process of submitting your paper. Here is the link for submission https://www.editorialmanager.com/E-CR/default.aspx

To submit your manuscript, you need the following files:

1. Your manuscript (including a title page with the names of all authors and co-authors)

A main document file with abstract, keywords, main text and references, which should be kept anonymous if the journal you are submitting to uses double-blind peer review

2. Figure files
3. Table files
4. Any extra files such as supplemental material or biographical notes.
5. Main document file – with all author details

A full version of your manuscript as you would like it to appear when published. You must label this file as “not for review” if you are submitting to a journal which uses double-blind peer review.

6. Within this document, please include:

• Article title
• Journal name
• Full name and details of the corresponding author
• The full names and details of all co-authors of the paper*
• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Main text
• Indication of figures and tables
• References
• Appendices
• Figure or table files

You can enter caption and link text before or after uploading any figures, images, and tables. Once uploaded, you can organize your files, using the thumbnail images to help. To remove a file, or edit its metadata, use the drop-down option in the Actions column.

Don’t forget, if the journal uses double-blind peer review, you must anonymize your figures and tables before you submit them.

Follow the steps below to complete your manuscript submission, if you need additional help, you can view Editorial Manager video tutorials.

• Starting your Editorial Manager submission
• Linking your ORCiD account
• Attaching your files
• Adding general information on Editorial Manager
• Adding additional information
• Comments
• Manuscript data
• Review and submit
• Continuing a submission
• Submitting a revision

1. Starting your Editorial Manager submission

once you have logged in, click on “Begin Submission” to submit a new manuscript.

You can follow your progress through the submission journey using the tracker at the top of the window.

Complete all the stages to submit your manuscript. You can move forward and come back to a section if needed. Fields with a red asterisk (*) are compulsory, and you must complete them to finish your submission.

2. Linking your ORCID account

Some journals require you to have an ORCiD account to link your work to your identity. Read our information on the benefits of registering for an ORCiD account.

3. Attaching your files

On the “Attach Files” step, upload the various files of your manuscript outlined above. Either drag and drop them from your computer, straight on to the web page, or click “Browse” to go to a file browser window and select the files you require.

Once you have chosen your files, they will automatically upload. There are several drop-down menus to specify the type of file each of your uploads is.

Required files are listed on the left and once the requirement is met, they will tick and turn green.

4. Adding general information on Editorial Manager

This section will vary between journals, and asks for further information the journal editor needs to know about your manuscript, such as:

• country of origin
• categorization
• keywords
• other classification

Keywords are free form and allow you to categorize your article more specifically. Keywords can be single words or phrases/sentences and you should separate each with a semicolon. Read our guidance on choosing keywords to make your research more discoverable.

5. Adding additional information

The Additional Information page varies between journals, and allows journals to collect answers from an author such as:

• whether the article has been published elsewhere
• funding sources
• conflicts of interest
• various administrative questions

6. Comments

Use this area to add any notes you want to include with your submission. These won’t be part of the publication or review of your manuscript.

7. Manuscript Data

This section is automatically populated, based on the files you upload in the second step. Here you should check that your Title, Abstract, Authors and Funding Information is correct.

8. Review and submit

Once you have reviewed your manuscript data, click the “Build PDF for Approval” button and check over your submission for any issues.

Once you are happy with your PDF proof, submit your manuscript. The “submission confirmation” screen will show when you have successfully submitted your manuscript to the journal for peer review.

Please note: if you wish to make any changes to your manuscript once you have submitted it, don’t start a new submission. Instead, contact the journal’s Editorial Office for further guidance.

9. Continuing a submission

If you have already started your manuscript submission, you’ll see it on your Author Dashboard under “Incomplete Submissions”. The system saves automatically at each step for you.

Place your cursor over the “Action Links” for options to:

• edit and continue
• delete the submission in progress
• send an email to the editor based of a number of template options.

10. Submitting a revision

If you need to submit a revision, you’ll be notified by email and directed to log back in to Editorial Manager. From the Author main menu you’ll see the manuscript returned to you as “Submissions Needing Revision.”

Click through to the next page to take action on your submission. You can view the feedback from reviewers/editors and resubmit with your revisions in a similar process as before, while retaining all the submission history.

From the “Action Links” pop-up menu, you can:

• View Submission: See your submission PDF
• File Inventory: View and download your source documents
• Revise Submission: Takes you through the process of uploading a new version of your manuscript
• Decline to Revise: Moves your submission out of submission status to the “Declined Revisions” section
• Correspondence: View the correspondence around your submission, including editor and reviewer comments
• Send Email: Send messages to the editor from a selection of templates, or edit as needed

If you need additional help, you can view Editorial Manager video tutorials.