This page covers settings available on the journal's Configuration page to control display and workflow, including creating volumes and issues. After modifying the options below, use the Submit Changes button to save your modification.

If you have any questions about your journal’s configurations or publishing tools, please contact Consulting Services.

Journal Settings and Options

Below are some of the key settings that you're able to adjust as an editor.

Basic Settings

• Journal ISSN: If an ISSN is entered, it will appear in the journal sidebar. This is usually configured during the setup process.
• Introductory text: A text box for including cover text on the journal’s homepage.
• Editor masthead: Text box and option to hide the editor masthead that appears on the journal homepage (only applies to journals that don’t use cover art).
• Show latest Special Issue link in sidebar: If checked, and the issue-level configuration Is this a special issue? is checked, then the title of the special issue will appear in the journal’s sidebar.
• Suppress Most Popular Papers link in sidebar: If checked, the corresponding link will disappear from the journal’s sidebar.

Visibility

• Hide this journal on the repository: If the journal intends to stay hidden (while uploading initial articles, adjusting site text, etc.), checking this box will prevent updates to the journal and keep it from appearing on repository pages.

Submission

• Hide link to submit form: If checked, the link allowing author submissions to the journal will disappear from the journal’s sidebar.

Review

• Maximum number of reviewers per article: If included, the system will prompt editors to solicit the number of reviews indicated. Editors may override this selection using the options provided on the Reviewers page of any submission.
• Number of days to submit a review: If completed, the system will prompt reviewers to complete their reviews in the number of days indicated. Editors may override this selection using the options provided on the Reviewers page of any submission.

Publication Options

• Author approval required: If checked, authors must give approval prior to publication.
• Publish by closing issues: If checked, the journal will change from the default setting of publishing incrementally to requiring an editor to close each issue for publication to occur.

Journal Information Pages

Editors can customize the text, headings, and visibility of the following journal pages:

• About
• Aims and Scope
• Editorial Board
• Policies
• Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines: A link to this page appears on the Policies page and in the default text of the article acceptance email notification.
• Publication Ethics Statement: Journals can use this to outline policies related to best practices around publication ethics
• News: Commonly used as a “Call for Papers” or “Announcements” page. This page is suppressed by default. To show this page, uncheck the “Suppress News link in sidebar” option, then queue a journal update.
• Contact: This page is suppressed by default. To show this page, uncheck the “Suppress Contact link in sidebar” option, then queue a journal update.

Standard HTML text formatting is accepted, including bold, italic, and super- and subscripts.

Editors

The Editors link in the sidebar of the Configuration tab is used to add or remove editors. For details on adding an editor, or modifying or limiting an editor’s permissions, please refer to the Administrator Permissions guide.

Volume and Issue Settings

Creating volumes and issues

To create volumes and issues, you will need to be an editor of the journal. Site-level administrators may add themselves (or others) as editors using the Editors option available from the journal Configuration page.

To create a volume:

1. On the journal Configuration screen, click volume next to “Create New.”
2. Enter a number for the new volume. The next available number will appear by default, but you may edit it if needed.
3. Click Add volume.

This number will be part of the URL for the volume as well as the issues and articles within it. Once published, each article’s URL is permanent.

To create an issue:

1. On the volume Configuration page, click issue next to “Create New.”
2. Choose a number for the issue, following the same guidelines as for volumes.
3. Click Add issue.

Volume settings

To view settings for a particular volume, click the label for that volume at the top of the Configuration screen.

Settings on the volume Configuration screen:

• Publication date: Optional setting that displays the volume year after the volume title in locations such as the journal homepage and the “All Issues” page. The year will also appear on the PDF cover page. For volumes that span multiple years, it is recommended to use the issue-level date instead and choose the journal-level setting Display issue year instead of volume year.
• Hide this volume and its contents: Hides links to the volume on the rest of the site, and prevents updates to the volume while this setting is enabled.

Issue settings

You may access issue settings by clicking an issue label at the top of the volume Configuration screen. Use issue settings to add an issue title, introductory text, or editor notes. If cover art is enabled for your journal, you can upload cover art, add an editorial board, and add extra issue information.

Other issue settings include:

• Issue date: Optional setting that displays the issue year after the issue title in locations such as the journal homepage and the “All Issues” page. The year will also appear on the PDF cover page. This is useful for journals with volumes that span more than one year. If entering issue dates, the journal-level setting Display issue year instead of volume year will need to be enabled.
• Is this a special issue?: Adds a link to the issue in the journal sidebar under a “Special Issues” heading.
• Hide this issue so that it’s not displayed on the site: Hides links to the issue on the rest of the site, and prevents updates to the issue while this setting is enabled.

Article settings

At the top of the issue Configuration screen, article numbers will appear for any articles published to that issue. Click an article link to drill down to its settings, which allow you to hide an article from the site or from featured lists such as “Recent Additions” or “Paper of the Day.”

Files

Journal Configuration Settings (Spanish)/Configuraciónes de la Revista (PDF)