【正文】 itor) ? Completes submission check list ? Selects Associate Editor ? Endorses Associate Editor?s remendations Technical Committee Administrator ? Author invitations。 mittee reassignment ? Overall user support Hierarchical Roles and Responsibilities establish MSC access privileges ? Every mittee must have at least one AE ? Larger mittees will have multiple AEs to deal with workload ? TCPRC may also serve as Admin in smaller mittees Page 11 Manuscript Central Roles and Responsibilities Society Administrators Committee Administrators Technical Committee Papers Review Chairs Associate Editors Reviewers Authors Perpetual Roles – No expiration Specified term – expire Feb 2023 Role Assignments Must Be Reviewed Annually Page 12 The Manuscript Central Process: 7 Steps 1. Issue an invitation (?create a stub?) 2. Submit the manuscript 3. Complete the Checklist and assign Associate Editor 4. Select and assign reviewers 5. Complete the review 6. Decide the consensus and remend disposition 7. Confirm the disposition Administrator Author Papers Review Chair (TCPRC) Associate Editor Reviewer Associate Editor Papers Review Chair Let the Games Begin! Page 13 Step 1: the Invitation done by Committee Admin ? Authors may submit only in response to an invitation issued by a mittee ? Invitation establishes unique “ownership” of each manuscript by the originating mittee ? Manages “over the transom” submissions that violate IAS “presentation first” policy ? Generates unique “cradletograve” tracking ID – eg 2023–REPC– X (sequential number) ? Information the Admin must submit to create the invitation: ? Title of manuscript ? Name and address of the corresponding author ? Sponsoring Technical Committee and conference ? Submission deadline (established by conference) ? Time required to originate invitation ? Less than 2 minutes ? Manuscript Central generates munications with author ? Invitation also serves as the formal notification that the paper has been accepted for presentation at an IASsponsored conference ? Timing of invitation (for papers to be presented at IASsponsored conferences) ? After the mittee has pleted its preliminary evaluation of proposed conference papers ? Before the final manuscript is required for the conference record ? Timing of invitation (for papers from cosponsored conferences, APEC and ECCE, etc) ? After the author has contacted the mittee Manuscript Central Workflow Page 14 WARNING! ? Conference Record pdf files must contain a unique “CCC” code ? Assigned by IEEE Conference Services ? Changes every year ? Manuscript Central will embed the CCC code in the pdf file ? But CCC Codes are not yet known for 2023 conferences ? Must hold off issuing invitations for 2023 conference manuscripts ? Admins will be advised as soon as CCC codes are available ? Target: December ? Conference Organizers: Please contact IEEE Conference Services ASAP to execute your “Conference Record Acquisition” Page 15 Creating the Invitation (Stub) 1. Declare “Read Only Fields” Click “Manuscript Type” and “Custom Fields on Attributes Page” Page 16 Creating the Invitation (Stub) 2. Select host mittee from “Manuscript Type” pulldown menu Page 17 Creating the Invitation (Stub) 3. Complete conference information For IAS Conferences: ? Select conference year ? Select conference name ? Input announced m/s deadline For nonIEEE conferences: ? Select conference year ? Key in conference name eg: INDUSCON ? Choose appropriate m/s deadline Note: ? Coming 9/08 additional pulldown menu for conference CCC code ? Applies only to IASsponsored conferences Page 18 Creating the Invitation (Stub) 4. Identify Corresponding Author ? Must supply First Name, Last Name, address ? Click “Add” – wait for page to refresh Page 19 Creating the Invitation (Stub) 5. “Commit the Stub” (aka – create the invitation) ? Leave all other entries blank – fields to be pleted by the author ? Click “Commit Stub” Page 20 Creating the Invitation (Stub) 6. Screen Refreshes – Move to Author Assignment ? Click box adjacent to the corresponding author?s name ? Click “Add” – wait for page to refresh Page 21 Creating the Invitation (Stub) 7. Screen Refreshes – Issue the Invitation ? Corresponding author?s name now appears in author box ? Click “Invite” Page 22 Creating the Invitation (Stub) 8. Popup window opens displaying the invitation ? Edit if necessary ? Click “Save and Send” ? Popup closes ? If Author clicks ?Accept? ? MSC generates second ? Submission instructions ? Admin can also manually record Author acceptance Page 23 Creating the Invitation (Stub) 9 Click “Save” to register invitation If the Author is NOT an MSC user Complete information to create a “stub” user account Page 24 Step 2: Manuscript Submission done by Author ? Author must accept the invitation and then submit the manuscript ? Invitation creates a “stub” (inplete record) in the MSC data base ? Submission pletes the MSC data base record ? Minimum information required to submit the manuscript: ? Title of manuscript ? Name and address of coauthors ? Abstract and key words (copied from the manuscript itself) ? Manuscript document file – either a word document or a pdf with embedded graphics ? Things the author must do as part of submission: ? Author may choose to fo peer review (usually limited to IPCSD and MSDAD mittees) ? Author may identify “nonpreferred reviewers” ? Author must disclose any previous presentation or publication of the paper ? Author must re