How to assign reviewer

The fist thing editors must do in order to correctly view the webpage is to all pop-ups for Manuscript Central.  Some versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox are blocking the frame that allows you to save your changes.  It is recommended that you add http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tie-ieee to the allowed pop-ups section of your browser. 

-Please go to the Transactions Industrial Electronics Manuscript Central website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tie-ieee and log in using your "user ID" and "password" (you have received it by e-mail from ScholarOne or you may request when you go to above website).

 -From the "Main Menu" go to "Associate Editor Center" and click "Awaiting Reviewer Selection".

- You may have 4 tabs to select from:

Invite reviewers  (to select reviewers)

Manuscript Information (to read information about manuscript and authors)

Audit Trail (to view history of manuscript and the correspondence)

Manuscript Files (to see uploaded files)

 - To see the manuscript you may click on the PDF icon

 - In the "Invite reviewers TAB you may use several methods to find reviewers:

Select for author preferred list

Quick search using first or last name

Related Papers Search

Auto-Suggest

Advanced Search

   No matter which method you select  the potential reviewer will be displayed in Search result - by selecting reviewer and clicking Add you will add this reviewer to the reviewer list

 -Please notice that in this version of the MC you need not to wait for reviewer response. Once the reviewer clicks proper URL an  invitation email manuscript will be assigned to him automatically

When you click on invite Manuscript Central is supposed to open a window that looks like the following picture.  This is a copy of the email that is to be sent the reviewer.  In order to finish sending the email you must click save and send.  Note: Pop-up blockers may not allow the frame containing the "save and send" button.  In this case you must disable your pop-up blocker. 

In the text of this email invited reviewer will have three hyperlinks to click:

Unavailable

Agreed

Declined

If reviewer select "Agreed" then Manuscript Central will send to the reviewer second email with information about access information (username and password). In other cases MC will show on your screen that reviewer is unavailable or that he/she declined review.

In the case that reviewer does not make any selection but he/she will send you email or call you you may manually select reviewer decision (see cases of reviewers 1 and 3 on the previous picture)