Submission to acceptance.

Once the manuscript is written and the journal is chosen, the publication process itself - portal submission, reviewer response, revision cycles, proof checking, post-acceptance promotion - takes weeks of attention over months of calendar time. For a junior author or a clinician with a full caseload, it is usually the stage where good manuscripts stall: the portal is fiddly, the reviewer response needs to be argued point by point, the revised manuscript needs re-formatting, and the proof has to be checked before a typesetter introduces new errors.

We work with authors who want hands-on help from submission through acceptance. That includes portal setup and submission, writing the cover letter, preparing reviewer response letters that address every substantive critique, revising the manuscript through the review cycle, and checking page proofs for typesetting errors. The engagement runs from submission through to the DOI landing in PubMed.

Our role is editorial and procedural. The scientific responses to reviewer critiques are yours and your co-authors' - we draft the response letter structure and suggest phrasing, but the substantive defence of the methodology, the interpretation of the data, and the decisions on which critiques to concede or push back on remain with the author team.

• →Submission portal setup (ScholarOne, Editorial Manager, eJP, Taylor & Francis, Wiley)
• →Cover letter addressed to the editor, framing novelty and significance
• →Author contributions, disclosures, funding and ethics statements in journal-specific format
• →Reporting checklists (CONSORT, STROBE, CARE, PRISMA) attached as required
• →Figure and supplementary-file preparation in publisher-accepted formats
• →Submission and tracking through to editorial decision
• →Reviewer-response letter drafting, addressing every substantive critique point by point
• →Revised manuscript preparation with highlighted changes
• →Second-round revision handling if the journal asks for further revisions
• →Page-proof checking against the accepted manuscript to catch typesetting errors
• →Post-acceptance metadata (ORCID linking, keyword optimisation, lay summaries where required)
• →Re-targeting to a better-fit journal if the first submission is rejected

• §Pre-submission audit report against the target journal's author guidelines
• §Portal submission with all metadata, files and compliance attachments
• §Editor-addressed cover letter
• §Status tracking updates at each editorial decision point
• §Structured reviewer-response letter addressing every substantive critique
• §Revised manuscript with tracked changes and highlighted revisions
• §Proof-checking report with corrections returned to the publisher
• §Post-acceptance confirmation: DOI, PubMed/Scopus indexing, ORCID linking
• §Re-targeting support (new journal selection, cover letter, reformat) if the first submission is rejected

• ICMJE Recommendations - submitting

  Submission-level requirements: authorship, contributions, disclosures, trial registration, ethics.

• COPE Core Practices

  Editorial ethics - authorship disputes, redundant publication, data-integrity concerns, reviewer conduct.

• CONSORT, STROBE, CARE, PRISMA reporting checklists

  Mandatory attachments for most medical journals; EQUATOR maintains the authoritative checklist library.

• CrossRef Similarity Check (iThenticate)

  Most major publishers run the submitted manuscript through iThenticate before editorial assessment; we pre-check to avoid surprises.