Revision

Once your article has been conditionally accepted for publication (Accept with major/minor revisions):

• You will receive a copy of the comments, made by anonymous reviewers.
• You will receive 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 procedure 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.

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.

• 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 your article cannot be published. 
• 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 occurred during typesetting or conversion.
• Please see Springer's "After acceptance" page for further information.