1.  Log in to your Editor Main Menu.  In the Editor ‘To-Do’ List, click on Submissions with Required Reviews Complete to see all your papers that have reached the number of required reviews.

2.  Click on Submit Editor’s Decision and Comments.

3.  You’ll need to select your recommendation term from the Decision drop-down menu.

4.    Your decision options after review will be:

• Accept for Presentation – this should be used for papers submitted for Presentation only or for papers submitted for Presentation and Publication where you want to have it presented at the Annual Meeting but not sent on to the TRR for further publication review.
• Accept for Presentation & Editorial Board Review – this should only be used for Presentation and Publication papers.
• Reject – this is used to completely reject a paper

5.  Before a paper goes out for review, you are also able to select the Desk Reject option.  This is for papers that are being rejected prior to peer review for reasons in the Criteria for Desk Rejection.  See the Desk Rejection guide for more information.

6.  There’s a list of relevant links under the decision dropdown.  You can view the Manuscript Rating Card and the Review Question Responses by clicking on those links.  You can find more information on them in the Viewing Reviews/Comments and Ratings guide.

7.  Below the links you’ll see a table with the reviewers and their recommendations.  If you click on the recommendation term, you can see the full review that the reviewer provided.

8.  Further down the page, you’ll see a text box titled Confidential Comments to Editor.  Any comments the reviewers included here are solely for you/the committee and the TRB SPO.  They should not be shared with the authors.

9.  Below that is the Comments to Author text box.  You’ll see a blank box – this is for any comment you the PRC/chair want to include for the authors.

10.  After that is a section labeled Individual Reviewer Comments to Author (Editor’s Copy).  This is where each individual reviewer comments appear.  If there is an inappropriate comment, unchecking the box next to the reviewer name will remove it from the decision letter.  Please be cautious when using this ability – it should ONLY be used in extreme circumstances, usually after consulting with your TRB SPO and possibly the editorial staff.

11.  At the bottom of the screen, you will find responses from each reviewer to the review questions.  These questions are different depending on the article type.

13.  Press the Proceed button when you are ready to submit your recommendation.

14.  The next page gives a summary of the comments on the previous page.  Press Proceed again to continue submitting your recommendation.

15.  This next screen will allow you to edit the recommendation letter before it goes to the SPO.  There is a draft template in place, so you can add any additional text as needed.  When done, you can “Preview Letter” and then “Submit Decision with Draft Letter”.