Journal of Ocular Pathology - Peer-Review Process

The peer-review process consists of critiques from at least two reviewers with enough expertise to evaluate the manuscript. The review is done anonymously without the authors’ names or institutions associated with the manuscript. The reviewers are encouraged to return a critique of the manuscript within two weeks. After the critiques are received from the reviewers, the Editor forwards the critiques to the authors, without attribution to the reviewers. If corrections are required before acceptance of the manuscript, then the authors must make these corrections before the manuscript advances to the galley process.

After acceptance of the manuscript for publication, the paper is then assigned to an editor for publication. An editor will create and revise the galley. The galley process allows authors to review the manuscript before it is published in The Journal of Ocular Pathology. The goal of the galley process is to produce an error-free publication. The Journal of Ocular Pathology utilizes an electronic galley process where authors and editors view the paper online and view how an article will appear when published in The Journal of Ocular Pathology. Authors will view the galley on a private website, and the authors should review their galley for errors. The galley process is the time to correct errors made during the editorial process. The authors are ultimately responsible for the content of their articles. While small corrections to a manuscript are acceptable, major revisions are subject to re-review.

Authors must tell the assigned editor exactly what to change and the location of the change in the manuscript. The original manuscript should never be modified and resent.

Authors need to describe the change clearly and quote enough of the galley that the location to be corrected can be identified by the editor. Citing line numbers on a page or in a paragraph is NOT helpful because these vary from computer to computer. Send all corrections via email to your editor.

Authors’ request to correct: In the discussion, delete the extra “and” in “The cells exhibit atypia and and nesting characteristics.”

After corrections are made to the galley, the authors are notified and asked to review the manuscript in its entirety a final time. After the authors’ approval of the galley, then the galley will be published.

The galley is located on a private section of the website. The login, password, and URL to the galley will be e-mailed to the corresponding author. All authors should review the galley and make corrections if necessary.
The editors may embed questions in the galley to verify changes or specifics in a manuscript. These questions will be embedded as red messages, e.g., ( ***Is this the change you wanted in the final manuscript?***)
To view changes to the galleys, the author must hit RELOAD or REFRESH on their web browser. Otherwise, the author may be viewing a previously cached page in their browser.
Older browsers may not display special characters and symbols correctly. Authors are encouraged to upgrade their web browsers to a current version that handles ISO-8859 representations of various special characters.
If errors or incorrect information is published, then an electronic addendum can be made to the publication at the discretion of the Editor.