1. Guide to Editor (ED) Journal of Mountain Science (JMS) http://jms.imde.ac.cn http://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jmsjournal

2. Abbreviations ED-Editor SE-Scientific Editor EEIC-Executive Editor-in-Chief JMS-Journal of Mountain Science MS-Manuscript Login Information User ID is your Email address When you receive your account information, you can set your own Password.

3. Contents Account management 2 Main menu 3 Dashboard 4 ED Center Overview 5 Reviewer Invitation & Editor’s Recommendation 6 The ED’s Roles 1

4. Invite peer-reviewers Communicate with the peer-reviewers and the authors. Make recommendations to the EEIC based on the peer-reviewers ’ comments and your own judgment. Edit the accepted papers.

5. Account management : Log in JMS Manuscript Center is on http://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jmsjournal. You can input your User ID &Password and click the Log In button. http://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jmsjournal

6. Account management: Forgot Password? If you don’t know your User ID or Password, you can use the Password Help. Input your email address and click Go. The system will immediately send a link to your email box, and let you set your new password.

7. Account management: Change User ID/Password & Account Information -1 Once you have logged in, you can click the User ID & Password link in the upper right side of the menu bar to change your User ID, Password, or other account information as the way shown in the next slide.

8. Account management: Change User ID/Password & Account Information-2

9. Main menu After logging in, the Welcome page opens. Select the button to enter the ED Center to manage the manuscripts, such as inviting peer- reviewers and checking the review status.

10. Dashboard You can find the manuscript from the Editor Lists or via Quick Search.

11. Dashboard: Manuscripts awaiting for your management – The “figures” in red circle indicates that the numbers of the manuscript in that status. Click the link to manuscript list of that status.

12. Select the Take Action button to start MS handling

13. ED Center Overview Clicking take action (shown in the previous slide) will take you to the present screen containing three tabs in the left. From here you can access links to all the manuscript files, details about the manuscript submission.

14. ED Center Overview Select the tab labeled Manuscript Information, you will see links to view Author-Supplied Data, Plagiarism Check and so on.

15. ED Center Overview Select the tab labeled Audit Trail, you will see the processing trails of this manuscript.

16. ED Center Overview Select the tab labeled Manuscript Files, you will see all files about this manuscript: title page, main text, figures and so on.

17. ED Center Overview Viewing Manuscripts (MS) View MS by selecting the HTML or PDF icons in the summary header. Our journal allows you to view both, along with the abstract and cover letter. Performing External Searches Selecting allows you to search external databases such as PubMed, HighWire, Google, Web of Science, etc for the author, title, keywords and more to help you with the recommendation.

18. Reviewer Sources Reviewers can be from the following three sources: 1.The MS system recommends 2.The Author recommends 3.The Editor invites

19. Reviewer Invitation-Select Reviewers To click “Select Reviewers” leads to the reviewer account create and invite pages (shown in the next slide)

20. Reviewer Selection-Create Reviewer account

21. Reviewer Selection-Author’s preferred/Non-preferred Reviewers Attention: editors should be cautious in inviting the author’s preferred reviewers (those marked “pref” shown above)!

22. Reviewer Invitation- from possible reviewer list that the MS system recommends

23. Invite Reviewers

24. Make Recommendation It needs at least two reviewers ’ comments to make recommendation. When two reviewers’ comments are completely opposite, it’s better to invite a third reviewer. As Prof. Iain Taylor said, we do not vote based on the numbers of “accept” when deciding whether a MS can be accepted! We should read the MS and the reviewers’ comments carefully and make judgment.

25. It needs at least two reviewers ’ comments to make recommendation. So the ED needs to check the MS status frequently and repeat the above steps if needed.

26. Make recommendation The ED makes recommendation and forward to the EEIC. After the EEIC makes decision, the ED sends letters to inform the authors the decision with the comments or revision suggestions attached.

27. The editor possibly need to send the revised MS to the reviewers for further checking after the major revision (if the editors think it ’ s necessary or the reviewers have suggested). The editor will make a thorough editing on the paper after it ’ s formally accepted.

28. You may play more than one roles in the ScholarOne Manuscript system of JMS. You can return to the main board to enter other centers such as Reviewer Center to accomplish other tasks.

29. Support Information If you have any questions, please contact us: E-mail: jms@imde.ac.cn Tel: 028-85252044 QQ: 1540631665 (JMS) QQ group: 304151131 (Mountain Science Editors)