Overview of Peer Review Process
Overview of Peer Review Process - coming soon
Manuscript Tracking
Comments and Replies
Revised Manuscripts
Accepted Manuscripts
Manuscript Tracking
After completing the submission process, the corresponding author may view the current status of a manuscript at any time by entering the ADS author system from the appropriate journal page. All active papers that were submitted by the corresponding author to the particular journal will be displayed. The Document ID number will link to the PDF version of the manuscript. The paper title will link to a status page, which lists all activities performed on the manuscript and indicates any author actions that are pending.
Comments and Replies
Comments on articles previously published will be considered in OSA journals. A comment should occupy no more than three to four journal pages (no more than one page for Optics Letters and no more than two for Optics Express) including title, author list, tables, figures, and references.
The abstract should be brief. The comment should be substantive and collegial in tone. Polemical comments will be rejected. The main purpose of a comment should be to point out and to correct significant errors or deficiencies in papers, to clarify or to extend the implications of a paper, or to take issue with the conclusions reached. Comments whose primary purpose is to discuss issues of priority or to call attention to oversights in a reference list will generally not be considered for publication.
If a Comment is accepted for publication it will be forwarded to the authors of the article being commented on to allow them an opportunity to submit a Reply. If the Reply is accepted, both Comment and Reply will be published together in most cases. Replies are subject to the same length regulations as Comments.
Revised Manuscripts
Manuscripts returned to the author for revision should be returned to OSA as quickly as possible. The decision email will include the due date for submission of the revised manuscript. Any revisions received after that date will be assigned a new received date. After revising the paper and writing a detailed reply to the reviewers with a list of changes made to the paper, the corresponding author will log onto the ADS Author queue to submit a revised manuscript and response. The editor will then make a final decision or choose to send the manuscript back to reviewers.
Accepted Manuscripts
All accepted papers are subject to editing to ensure readability and conformity to journal style. If a student-level reader might find your English difficult to understand, please have a colleague who is fluent in English edit your paper before you submit it to OSA. Authors will receive page proofs of their papers; typically, authors are prompted by e-mail to log in and access PDF proofs from a vendor website. Page proof corrections should be returned the OSA Editorial Department as soon as possible, preferably within 24 hours of receipt and preferably by e-mail, to avoid publication delays.
