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Law Journal Editor Resource Guide

A resource guide to help law journal students manage journals published at the School of Law.

Uploading New Articles

  • To start uploading a new article, you can click on the "Upload" link from the My Account section, or going to the "Upload Submission" panel if you are already logged into the system.

Step 1 - Add Author Information

  • Enter an e-mail address for each author and click "Add author". If the system detects information for that author from that e-mail address, it will auto-fill in. If it is a new author to the system, you will need to enter in their name and institution.
    • E-mail address is technically "optional" in case you do not know the authors e-mail, but it is strongly recommended you enter an e-mail address in so the author can access data about the article in their dashboard & it helps the article get more exposure since it will be connected with that author's dashboard.
  • After adding all authors for the article, click "Continue"

 

 

Step 2 - Add Additional Article Information

  • After adding authors, you need to add the other information for the article. The following fields are important to always fill in:
    • Article title
    • Publication Date
    • Disciplines
    • Document Type
    • Abstract
    • DOI
      • For DOI, include only the DOI String and not the "https://doi.org/" part of the URL.
    • First Page
    • Last Page
  • Keywords & short title are optional and not normally filled in.
  • Leave "Recommended Citation" blank - the system will use the information from the form to create a Bluebook citation that appears on the article cover page.
  • Upload the PDF of the article.
  • Click "Submit"

 

 

Assign New Articles to Issue

Once you have uploaded new articles, you can assign them to a specific volume and issue.

  • First, make sure the volume and issue are already created (see Things To Do to Get Set Up Each Year).
  • Click on "Manage Submissions" from My Account, or go to the "Manage Submissions" panel if you are already logged into the system.
  • New article uploads should appear on the page by default, with "State" set to "Not yet published"
  • In the "Issue" column, you can click the "Assign" link for each article and follow the prompts to assign the article to a specific volume and issue.
  • Once all articles are assigned, you go back to "Manage Submissions" and click on the "View/Close Issue" link to select the specific volume and issue to close. Once you close an issue, you cannot re-open it using the system tools or interface, so be absolutely sure all articles have been added. Closing an issue is like setting the issue out for publication.
  • Once closed, click the "Update ir_journal" link on the left side of the page to push the new issue to the live site..