Understanding the Flowchart

Version of 3 March 2025; CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Flowchart is one of the three main components of the Editorial Reference Handbook.

The Flowchart is available as a downloadable visualisation (CC BY-SA 4.0), where each step is also hyperlinked to this specific section in this Guidance page to provide definitions and help with the implementation of the checks.

The arrows in the Flowchart illustrate the path to follow depending on the result of assessing a particular manuscript. This may be to continue with the flowchart or perform a corrective action.

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