Submitting Your Manuscript
  1. Log into the User Authentication screen using the login and password sent to you in your confirmation e-mail. Note: If you have forgotten them, use the "Forgot Password?" link.
  2. After a successful login you will see your welcome page.  From this page you can update your personal information (under the User section) and submit and manage your papers (under the Author section).
  3. To submit your paper(s) click the New Paper link under Author.  You will see the Add New Paper screen.  Important: Make sure you have read the instructions for preparing your document file.  Specifically, make sure your document file does not include any author identification.  The document you upload will be the same version downloaded later by reviewers. It is essential that this be a blind review process.
  4. Enter the title of your paper in the Title field.
  5. Select the Paper Type (full paper, abstract, etc.) from the pulldown list.
  6. Select the Track from the pulldown list.
  7. Click the Browse button to locate your paper on your computer (only Word (.doc or .docx), and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (.pdf) file types will be accepted).  Click Open to select it.
  8. Add co-authors to your paper.  Important:  Your co-authors must be set up as users of the system just as you are.  However, before setting up your co-author(s) as users using the New Author link, make sure they are not already set up by scrolling the Users box (or by doing a name search using the Users Filters fields at the bottom of the screen).  When you find the co-author's name, highlight it and and click the right arrow to add the co-author to the Paper Co-Authors box.  Authors will be listed in the order they are selected.  Note: If your co-author is not a user, you must click New Author and set the co-author up as a user in the system before you can select him or her from the Users box.
  9. Repeat steps 3 - 8 to submit additional manuscripts.