1. The first time you go into the Invite Reviewers section of Editorial Manager, you should take a moment to set your reviewer preferences along the left side of the screen.

2. On the “My Suggest Reviewer Preferences” page, you can tell Editorial Manager to exclude people from the same institution and/or same city as the corresponding author.  You can also filter out anyone that does not have any matches to the classification matches.

Note: This only affects the results when you use the “Suggest Reviewer” search for reviewers.

The second section sets up how you want the results to be sorted.  Enter numbers 1-7 in the boxes next to the criteria to indicate rank order of importance.  Click “Submit” to save your changes.

3. The “My Reviewer Display Preferences” page contains two sections.  In the first section, use the radio button to select the option for how classifications are displayed:
3a. Show only Classification matches with manuscript,
3b. Supress Classifications,
3c. Show all Personal Classifications for the Reviewer candidate.

In the second section, define how the system should sort the results list: Enter numbers 1 – 5 in the boxes next to the criteria to indicate rank order of importance.  Click Submit when done.