Submit a Book Chapter: Step by Step Guide
After login for the FIRST TIME
• On top right, under your username, click “View profile”
• Under “Roles”, choose “Author”
• Save
• Click “New Submission”
• Start submission following the guide below
Step 1: Start
• Select “Articles” from the dropdown menu of “Section”
• Agree to all submission requirements
• Leave the section ‘Comments for the Editor’ blank
• Agree to the copyright and privacy statements
• Save and Continue
Step 2a: For manuscripts WITH figures (if there are no figures, please follow step 2b below)
• Select “Book Chapter” for Article Component from the drop-down menu
• Select the file from your computer and upload
• Ensure that this a single Microsoft Word document including figures and tables
• Continue
• Continue
• Add another file, select Figure 1 under ‘Article Component’
• Upload Figure 1, high resolution TIFF image
• Continue
• In the Caption box, enter Figure 1. Ignore other boxes
• Continue
• Repeat the "Add another file" until all figures have been uploaded separately
• Once done, click ‘complete’
• Save and Continue; Go to step 3 below "Enter Metadata"
Step 2b: For manuscripts WITHOUT figures
• Select “Book Chapter” for Article Component from the drop-down menu
• Select the file from your computer and upload
• Ensure that this a single Microsoft Word document
• Continue
• Continue
• Save and Continue; Go to step 3 below "Enter Metadata"
Step 3: Enter Metadata
• Ignore the Prefix column
• Enter the title of manuscript. This can be copied and pasted from the manuscript
• Ignore the subtitle column
• Enter the abstract; this can be copied and pasted from the manuscript
• Scroll down – Under List of Contributors click “Add contributor”
• Enter author details, including affiliation
• Select ‘Author’ under ‘Contributor’s role’
• Save. Continue to add ALL authors, and affiliations, in the same order as in the chapter
• After entering all authors, if you wish to rearrange the order of authors, click ‘order’
• Arrange the order of authors by dragging the names up or down
• Once ordering is complete, click ‘done’
• Scroll down and enter five keywords in alphabetical order, enter one keyword at a time
• After entering each keyword, press Enter and then enter the next keyword
• Save and Continue
Step 4: Confirmation
• Finish submission
• Confirm submission