Revision

On conditional acceptance of an article

Once your article has been conditionally accepted for publication...

• You will receive a copy of the comments, made by the blind reviewers and
• a deadline for making those changes.
• This stage will be handled via the online submission system.
• You are required to provide a response to the reviewers' comments and explain how you reacted to the issues raised.
  

This will be repeated until the reviewers and editors are satisfied with all changes made. After final acceptance of your article it will be submitted to our publisher.

On final acceptance of an article

• After your article is finally accepted it is automatically transferred to our publisher's production department.
• The publisher will contact you regarding OpenChoice which allows you to make your article openly accessible.
• If you do not prefer OpenChoice you will be asked to transfer copyright of the article. Without a signed copyright statement, we regret that we can not publish your article.
  
• The Copyright Statement contains information about the rights that you personally retain as an author. Please read it carefully - especially the self-archiving policies.
• The last step before online publishing of your article is proof reading where you should carefully check for any errors in your manuscript which may have occured during typesetting or conversion.
• Please see Springer's " After acceptance" page for further information.
  

On Reject & Resubmit

Reject & Resubmit means that your article has been rejected for publication but the Editors see enough potential to invite a resubmission after heavy revisions. In this case please resubmit your manuscript like a new one and then attach an extra document with your response to the reviewers. The response to reviewers must be blinded like the manuscript.