Affiliations

About this task

Author Portal will attempt to automatically extract the authors' affiliations from the manuscript main document.

When selecting or confirming affiliations, ensure that each affiliation includes the complete organization or institution address. At a minimum, ensure the affiliation includes the institution name and country, but a complete affiliation also includes department name and institution city. The institution postal code is optional.

If your manuscript proceeds to publication, affiliations will be published as they appear in your manuscript.

Note: ScholarOne currently collects up to 10 affiliations per author. Make sure to configure ScholarOne accordingly.

If the number of affiliations specified for an author in a submission made using Author Portal exceeds the limit set by ScholarOne, ScholarOne will collect the first 10 affiliations.

Procedure

  1. If the automatic affiliation selection is correct, click Yes, all affiliations are correct.
  2. Alternatively, if the affiliation selection is not correct, click No, let me fix them.
    1. Click and drag to highlight each affiliation in the manuscript.
    If the affiliation selection is not correct, click Something is wrong with my affiliations and follow these steps.
  3. Click Confirm affiliation(s).
  4. If you do not want to specify affiliations for any of the authors of the manuscript, do the following:
    1. Click Confirm no affiliation.
      Author Portal displays the following prompt:
      No affiliations found
If all authors are unaffiliated, check the box below.
    2. Check the This manuscript has no affiliations box.
    3. Click Confirm no affiliation.
    When you confirm that none of the authors of the manuscript has an affiliation, Author Portal will do the following:
    • In the next submission step, Author Details, the Affiliation(s) field for each author will be automatically filled in with No Affiliation.
    • If you also do not specify any affiliations for any author in the next, Author Details, submission step, the Match Organizations submission step will be skipped for this submission, and will not be included in the list of steps for this manuscript under My Submissions > Your Progress.

Results

You will be redirected back to the Progress Board page for the submission. Under Your Progress, the next step you need to take will be highlighted.

What to do next

To continue your submission, click Author Details.