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The same editorial policies apply to every book and chapter we publish, and to our journals.

The editorial process

The same steps apply to journal articles, book chapters and books. Revised manuscripts go through the same steps again.

1. AuthorSubmissionOn the Manuscript Portal, with the first page (author details) as a separate file.
2. Editorial officeInitial checkScope, quality, formatting, completeness and a similarity check.
3. Editor-in-ChiefAssessmentDecides whether the manuscript goes to peer review.
4. ReviewersPeer reviewA panel of three experts; at least two reports are needed.
5. Editor-in-ChiefDecisionAccept, minor or major revision, or reject.
6. AuthorRevisionChanged files and a response to every comment; reviewed again.
7. ProductionEditing & proofsCopy editing, language correction, layout and the author’s proof approval.
8. PublisherOnline FirstEach chapter published with a Crossref DOI, then the whole book.

The Managing Editor and the editorial office check every new manuscript for:

• Scope and quality — fit with the book’s scope, originality and innovation;
• Formatting and completeness — as the Author Guide asks: files, first page, declarations, figures, tables and references;
• Anonymity — nothing in the main file that identifies the authors;
• Similarity — a Turnitin iThenticate report for the handling editor;
• AI-use disclosure, as the AI Use Policy requires.

The Managing Editor forwards only well-prepared manuscripts of good quality to the Editor-in-Chief. A manuscript that needs fixing is returned to the author with a list of corrections and can be resubmitted; only out-of-scope or poor-quality manuscripts are declined.

The editorial office may use an approved AI tool, under confidential terms, to screen completeness, references and integrity signals. Its report only assists: it is seen by the office and the handling editor, and never decides anything.

Similarity report (Turnitin)

Every manuscript is checked with Turnitin iThenticate, which compares it with published articles, books and web pages. The editorial office runs the check; the report can then be opened only by the people working on that manuscript.

Who	What they can do
Editorial office	Runs the check on submitted manuscripts, and again if a check fails. Only the editorial office can start a check.
The manuscript’s authors	Open the report from their author account — a view-only copy.
Its reviewers	Reviewers assigned to the manuscript open it from Active Manuscript(s) or the report form.
Its editors	The editor handling the manuscript and the journal’s editorial board editors open it from the manuscript’s editorial page.
Anyone else	Cannot open it: the button shows “no access”. Reports are never public.

How to open it — sign in to the Manuscript Portal, then:

• Authors: Open Submitted Manuscript(s) and click View on your manuscript. The similarity button is at the top, next to View Manuscript and Compare versions.
• Reviewers: The similarity button is on the manuscript’s row in Active Manuscript(s), and at the top of the report form, next to View Manuscript.
• Editors: Open the manuscript (View). The similarity button is at the top of the editorial page, next to View Manuscript.
• When the check is done, the button shows the score, for example Similarity Report (12%). Click it: the full report opens in a new browser tab in Turnitin’s viewer. If nothing opens, allow pop-ups for gathacognition.com and click again.
• The report highlights each matching passage and lists the source it matches.

The button shows	What it means
Similarity: not yet checked	The editorial office has not run the check yet. Please look again later.
Checking Similarity… / still running — reload later	Turnitin is comparing the manuscript. Reload the page after a few minutes.
Similarity Report (12%)	The check is done; the percentage is the overall similarity score. Click to open the full report.
Similarity Check Failed / report unavailable	Something went wrong at Turnitin. The editorial office runs the check again; write to us if it stays like this.
Similarity report: no access	You are not one of the people on this manuscript, so the report cannot be shown.

The score is never a verdict on its own: the editor opens the report and looks at what matches. Cited quotations, common phrases, methods wording and references are normal; large passages copied without quotation and citation — from others or from the authors’ own earlier work — are raised with the authors, and handled under COPE guidance if needed.

• The Editor-in-Chief (or a handling editor from the Editorial Board) appoints a Panel of Reviewers of three experts in the field.
• The Managing Editor runs the review with the editorial office, following the book’s guidelines and the Editor-in-Chief’s instructions.
• Review is double-blind: reviewers do not see the authors’ names, and authors are not told who the reviewers are.
• At least two reviewer reports are needed for a decision; the Manuscript Portal^® tells the Editor-in-Chief as soon as two reports are in.

Reviewers assess the manuscript for:

• Innovation
• Scope
• Methods, techniques & data
• Explanations & justification
• Contribution
• Applicability
• Flow of writing
• Language

Reviewers submit their reports on the Manuscript Portal: a recommendation, ratings, a confidential report to the editor and comments for the authors. See the Reviewer Guide.

The Editor-in-Chief decides on the basis of at least two reports — the confidential comments to the editor, the comments for the authors and the ratings — and on their own reading of the manuscript. A further reviewer is asked when the reports disagree.

The decision, with the comments, reaches the corresponding author by email and in the author account. Reviewers are told when their assignment closes.

• Authors revise the manuscript according to the editors’ and reviewers’ comments and resubmit it as early as possible, from the link in the email or in the author account.
• The corresponding author uploads only the corrected files and a response to every comment; files that were already correct need not change.
• The Managing Editor checks the revised manuscript for the expected changes and forwards it to the Editor-in-Chief, who sends it to the reviewers again and decides on their comments.

Stage	What happens
Copy editing	In-house editing for consistency, formatting, flow, figures, tables, captions, references, author and funding details, institutes, acknowledgements, citations and quotations.
Language correction	The Language Editor checks grammar, spelling, syntax, abbreviations, word choice and flow. Manuscripts with poor language are returned to the authors, and sometimes a professional language editor is recommended.
Layout	The editorial office sends the accepted, corrected manuscript to the production unit for the final layout of the article, chapter or book.
Proofreading	The proofs are uploaded to the author account on the Manuscript Portal. The author checks them and suggests corrections; the corrected copy goes back to the author until it is approved for publication. See the Proof Correction Guide.
Copyright or licence	The author signs the Publishing Agreement, or, for Open Access Plus, the article is published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Our production team may use approved AI tools for layout, mechanical copy editing, graphical abstracts and highlights. They never change the author’s meaning, and everything is shown to the author in the proofs for approval — see the AI Use Policy, 5a.

• Accepted articles and book chapters are published Online First as soon as copy editing, language correction, layout and proof checking are complete — with a Crossref DOI and CrossMark, citable at once.
• They are then placed in an upcoming journal issue or book, so authors need not wait for the issue to appear.
• We follow a green publishing policy: all articles, chapters and books are published electronically at gathacognition.com and archived permanently.

• COPE — we follow the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance for authors, reviewers, editors and publishers.
• Confidentiality — manuscripts under review are confidential; editors and reviewers never share them or put them into an AI tool.
• Conflicts of interest — editors and reviewers step aside from manuscripts where they have one.
• A score is not a verdict — a similarity score prompts the editor’s judgement; it never decides on its own.
• Fees never affect decisions — APCs and waivers are handled by our office; editors and reviewers do not see them.
• Misconduct — plagiarism, data manipulation, fabricated citations or inappropriate authorship are handled under COPE guidance, up to correction or retraction.

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