Please visit the Author Hub before preparing your submission:
After submission
After submitting your paper it will be screened by the Editorial Office and the Editor-in-chief to ensure it fits within the Aims and scope of Veterinary Evidence and is at a standard to send out to peer review. If so, your paper will then be assigned to an Associate Editor who will manage the peer-review process. Your paper will be sent to experts in the same field of research for their evaluation.
Once your paper has been peer-reviewed by a minimum of two referees, the Associate Editor and the Editor-in-chief will then decide whether it should be revised, accepted or rejected. You will be sent the reviewer comments along with the editorial decision. Final decisions are made by the Editor-in-chief.
Revisions required
Where revisions are required, instructions will be emailed to you along with the Associate Editors' and reviewers’ comments. Once your revision has been uploaded it will undergo round 2 of the peer-review process, where the same reviewers will give their recommendation for your revised paper.
Acceptance
All accepted submissions are then copyedited by our in-house Editors. This stage is vital in the publication of papers in Veterinary Evidence as copyediting ensures that language is clear and precise and ensures the structure of the paper is logical and free of any ambiguities or anomalies. Along with other queries, authors may be required to provide further detail within their paper or rewrite sections of text for clarity. The paper is then proofread to ensure there are no grammatical or production errors.
This proof will then be sent to you to review the copyeditor’s queries. This is also your opportunity to make any edits you feel are necessary to your paper. The paper will not be published until this quality control step is completed.
For multi-author papers we recommend that all authors check and correct the proof, but request that a single set of corrections is coordinated by the corresponding author.
Before publication
Your paper will then be typeset and finalised for publication and a proof will be sent to you to approve prior to publication.
For guidance throughout any stage of the publication process please contact the editorial office.