Before you begin, you will have to register. If you've already registered, please sign-on and go to the Reviewer Area.

Registration
If you have never submitted to The FASEB Journal electronically, you must register for an account. To register, you need to complete an online form telling us who you are and how to contact you if necessary. The information you supply here will also be filled in for you when you begin submitting a paper. You can change any of this information at any time by clicking the "Personal Info" button in the top navigation bar.

You will need to choose a username and password. Try to pick a password that you will not forget and is not easy to guess. Combinations of upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks are best (passwords are case-sensitive: capital letters must be entered as capitals, and so on). You can change your password in the future, and if you ever forget your username and/or password, you can request a reminder via e-mail.

Finally, please be sure you enter an e-mail address, a telephone number, and a fax number that you can use to handle The FASEB Journal's business. All correspondence regarding your submissions will be sent using the information you enter, so use an e-mail account that you check frequently, and take special care to enter all information correctly.

REVIEWER AREA
Requests for Review
After you receive an e-mail requesting you to review a paper, go to the Reviewer Area and click this link. You will see the manuscript's title, the corresponding author, keywords, and the abstract. You can accept or decline the assignment from this screen. If you have a potential conflict of interest, you can e-mail the Editorial Office for guidance.

The Journal's policy is to solicit more reviewers than are necessary, as it is likely that at least one potential reviewer will decline to accept the review assignment. This policy allows the Journal to greatly expedite the review process. If in the process of accepting an assignment, you receive notification that a review is no longer necessary, most likely it is because enough reviewers have already accepted the assignment. It is relatively rare that potential reviewers are notified that they are no longer needed to review a manuscript, but if you receive such a notice, you will be considered for future assignments. If you have special circumstances that make it necessary for you to review a paper, please send an e-mail to journals{at}faseb.org.

Active Reviews
Once you have accepted an assignment, the manuscript will move into this queue. You will then be able to see the entire paper and any supplemental material by clicking the links next to the author's name.

To start your review, click Edit/Submit Review. The first link on the next page is Reviewer Tools. This will take you to preset searches for similar articles on HighWire and PubMed.

In Manuscript Evaluation, please assign a priority to the manuscript for The FASEB Journal and let us know whether you think we should accept or reject the manuscript, or request a revision.

Finally, there are fields where you can input comments to the Editor and the Author. If you prefer, you can compose your comments in Microsoft Word or WordPerfect and upload the files here. Please note that comments directed to the Editor are not accessible to the authors.

Uploaded Reviews Under Conversion
If you have uploaded your comments, they will be converted to PDF to send to the Editor. You will see the manuscript in this queue during that conversion.

Uploaded Reviews with Conversion Errors
If there is a problem with the conversion of your comments, the error message will show up in this queue. Please contact the Editorial Office at journals{at}faseb.org if you are having trouble uploading your comments.