Editorial review
NETSCC, SDO will issue all ongoing projects with an author's information pack containing a set of style guidelines and reporting templates for final reports. Approximately four months before your draft final report is due you will be contacted to confirm arrangements for its submission, ensure you have the template documentation you require and provide you with further details about what will happen following submission of the report. See the Resources for authors section for more information.
To ensure quality standards, the draft final report will undergo rigorous editorial review before it is accepted for publication; this process typically takes between 7 to 9 months.
Once the report has been accepted for editorial review it will be sent for refereeing. We normally send the report to up to four referees who are selected from our community of referees to provide methodological and/or area expertise. Where possible a referee proposed by the author is included among these.
Reports provided by the referees are forwarded to the Lead Reviewer who will also provide a report. Feedback is given anonymously to the author when the referees' and Lead Reviewer's comments have been returned. The author is then invited to submit their revised report.
For more information on this process please see the SDO resources for authors guidance (pdf, 1.33Mb).
