When submitting a manuscript for review by Psychometrika, authors may request that their manuscript be considered for either Theory and Methodology or Application Reviews and Case Studies. The editors may recommend a different section after considering the manuscript.

First, a general note: If at any point you see "Action Links" instead of the links I specify, you can get the correct links by following these instructions.

Authors: Submitting a Manuscript
Psychometrika uses the Editorial Manager system to help manage our review process.

The system will guide you through the steps you need to take, but here is a brief outline and explanation of some of the parts that people have found confusing or problematic in the past.

If you read no other sections, please read "Step 11: Attach Files" and the bold, red note in "Step 13: Approve PDF" before spending too much time or getting too frustrated with the system!

Step 1: Logging in	If you already have an Editorial Manager account: Simply enter your username and password and click on "Author Login". If you do not already have an account: Click on the "Register Now" link below the four login buttons and register for an account. If you are not certain whether you already have an account or have forgotten your login information: Click on the "Send Username/Password" link, and enter your first name, last name, and email address. If you have an account but have forgotten your login and do not have access to the email address your account was associated with: Email me (Gwen Exner) at pmetrika@uncg.edu. I can change your email address in your account.
Step 2: Author Main Menu	If you are submitting a new manuscript: Click on the "Submit New Manuscript" link. It should be the first one in the first shaded box. If you are submitting a revised manuscript: Click on the "Submissions Needing Revision" link. It should be the first one in the second shaded box. If you are completing a submission: If you already started the submission process, click on the "Incomplete Submissions" link in either the first or second shaded box. Then in the next screen click on the "Edit Submission" for the submission you want to finish submitting. Note:If you do not see the manuscript submission options, you might have logged in with the wrong role. Look to see if the words "Author Main Menu" are in the white column near the top of the left of the screen. If they are not, look for a drop-down menu in the upper-right corner of the screen, in the blue bar underneath the Editorial Manager logo. It should be labelled "Role:" and will be set to Reviewer or something else other than Author. Change it to "Author" and wait for it to re-load.
Step 3: Select Article Type	If you are submitting a T&M or ARCS manuscript: Select "Original Research" from the drop-down menu. If you are submitting a book review: Select "Book Review" from the drop-down menu. Note: If you see an option for "Editorial Contect", do not select it unless specifically instructed to do so. Manuscripts intended for review which are submitted as Editorial Content will be sent back to the author for proper submission without ever reaching one of the Section Editors.
Step 4: Enter Title	If you are submitting a T&M or ARCS manuscript: Enter the title of your manuscript in the text field. Then click on the "Next" button. If you are submitting a book review: Enter the author names, publication date, and book title in the same format you will use in your header. Do not add the publisher, etc. Then click on the "Next" button.
Step 5: Add/Edit/Remove Authors	If you are the only author: Click "Next". If you have co-authors: Click on the "Add Author" button and enter the information in the pop-up window. When you are done adding authors, click "Next". Note: You can also change the order of the authors in this screen! If the first author is not the one submitting simply change the numbers in the boxes next to each author's name, and then click on the "Update Author Order" button.
Step 6: Submit Abstract	If you are submitting a T&M or ARCS manuscript: Enter the abstract here. If it's in LaTeX the code will appear to reviewers, but it will get cleaned up for final publication. When you are done, click on the "Next" button. If you are submitting a book review: Leave this blank, and just click on the "Next" button.
Step 7: Enter Keywords	If you are submitting a T&M or ARCS manuscript: Enter the keywords for your manuscript. They will be published with your manuscript, if it is accepted. Then click on the "Next" button. If you are submitting a book review: Leave this blank, and just click on the "Next" button.
Step 8: Select Classifications	If you are submitting a T&M or ARCS manuscript: Click on the "Select Classifications" button. In the pop-up window that appears, put a checkmark next to any classifications that you consider relevant. Click on the "Select->" button. Click on the "Submit" button If you are submitting a book review: This option does not appear. Note: If none of the classifications fit your manuscript, just remember: the computer can't think, but the editors can. Choose whatever fits best and trust the section editor to depend more on your manuscript than on your selections when choosing the Associate Editor/Reviewers.
Step 9: Enter Comments	If you are submitting an ARCS manuscript: This is where you say that. It can be a simple statement (i.e. "This is for ARCS"), or it can be part of a longer letter ("Dear ARCS Editor, I am submitting this..."), but regardless, this is where you say you want it submitted to ARCS. In general: Please enter any comments relevant to your manuscript, or anything else you want the Editors to read here. Some possible examples are: If the relevant section editor has approved a manuscript over 40 pages. If certain potential reviewers have already seen your manuscript, and so should not be considered. If it is a revisioin of a previously rejected manuscript, and why you think it is sufficiently revised as to merit reconsideration. (IMPORTANT! If you do not mention this it may slip through, but if it's caught it will be flatly rejected, without review.) Note: Some people use this section to complain about problems they had submitting through the system. Please email me (pmetrika@uncg.edu) about such problems before reaching this stage, in case I can help!
Step 10: Suggest Reviewers	If you are submitting a T&M or ARCS manuscript: Enter the first name, last name, and email address of a person you consider appropriate to review the manuscript. Bear in mind that this is a blind review. Click on the "Add Reviewer" button. Repeat steps 1-2 until you have added all the reviewers you can think of. (We prefer at least 3.) Click on the "Next" button If you are submitting a book review: Leave this blank, and just click on the "Next" button. Note: While you are not required to enter any reviewer suggestions, we prefer to get some. We do not promise to invite these reviewers, and we certainly do not promise that they will agree if we do invite them, but we do generally consider author suggestions first if they seem reasonable.
Step 11: Attach Files	How to submit: Select the appropriate type of file (manuscript, title page, figure, table, supplementary material) from the drop-down menu under the word "Item". Enter whatever you want in the Description textbox, or leave the default. This is for your purposes. Click on the "Browse" button and find the file you want to upload, then click "Okay". Click on the "Attach this file" button. Repeat steps 1-4 until all files have been uploaded. Scroll to the bottom of the screen, and click on the "Next" button. What to submit: ...for a new T&M or ARC manuscript Blind manuscript. The authors names must not appear in headers, on the same page as the abstract, or in author's notes anywhere in the body. If you are citing your own work you should cite it normally. Please remember to put the full title somewhere (before the abstract is a good place) because the cover sheet will not be distributed with the blinded manuscript. Title page with the title, authors names and contact information. Any author notes regarding funding, etc. may be included on this page. If it's more than one page that's also fine. ...for a revised manuscript: Blind manuscript, as described above. Title page, as described above. Response to reviewer comments, explaining how you addressed them. ...for a book review: Just the manuscript, and it doesn't have to be blind. File formats: No matter what sort of file you submit, Editorial Manager will convert it to a PDF for you. It's easier to do this with some formats than it is with others. The list below explains some of the most common formats -- if this list doesn't address your format, or your experience doesn't match what is explained by this list, please let me know! PDF - Editorial Manager is set up to require source files for all submissions. PDFs cannot be submitted through the system. Word - Merge fields: Word 2008 for Mac has a function which lets you merge have the figures in one file, the references in a second, and the body in a third, and just use a merge field to pull the information. Editorial Manager will just render those merge fields as error messages. LaTeX - LaTeX is the single most problematic format for Editorial Manager to process. This is partially due to the fact that EM does not include all of the .sty files that might be assumed to be standard. At minimum, pmet.sty and pmetrika.sty are not available on the system. If the generated PDF (see below) says something about being unable to find a particular .sty file, try uploading that and compiling again. OR you can do as one very clever and helpful author discovered/suggested, and convert the latex file to DVI format. DVI - No problems have been reported when using .DVI files with .EPS figures. However, attempts to combine .dvi files with .pdf or .jpg figures have resulted in the figures either appearing at the end or not appearing at all. Figures in R - Figures created in R sometimes have thick black lines where there shouldn't be any lines at all. This can be avoided by converting the files to JPEG format. File size: Most files are fine, and there is no need to worry about file size. However, extraordinarily large graphics have caused problems in the past, making it impossible for reviewers to download the manuscript. If your manuscript is over 10Mb (10,000 kb) then it's going to cause problems. If you don't know how big your file will be, try looking at your graphics -- if you have one or more graphics that take so long to fully render themselves that you even think about getting up and going to do something else, they're probably big enough to cause some reviewers problems with downloading. If you contact me I can help you flatten the image for the review rounds without losing significant about of quality. Then, once your ms is accepted, you can restore the original graphic before it is sent to production.
Step 12: Generate PDF	Once you have uploaded all of the files, you still need to tell the system to generate the PDF. Look over the listed files, and make sure they seem right. Click on the button that says "Build PDF for my Approval" Click on any of the links that say "Submissions Waiting for Author's Approval"
Step 13: Approve PDF	Once your PDF has been generated the "Submissions Waiting for Approval" page will have a variety of action links, and you will receive an automatic letter with a link to this page in case you closed the window while you were waiting. Click on the "View PDF" link to look at the PDF and make sure it got correctly converted. If anything is wrong, click on "Edit Submission" link and go back to the appropriate step. If everything is right, click on the "Approve Submission" link. Note: If you cannot get the PDF to look right, the letter you receive asking you to approve the PDF will also give information on who to contact to request that they manually override the system and upload a PDF which you have generated yourself.