When you select ‘accept subject to revision’ (Figure 9), the system sends an email to the corresponding author asking the author to go to the review site at http://My.InformingScience.org to let the system know whether or not the author intends to revise the submission. If the author does not intend to revise, the process stops here. If the author decides to revise and re-submit the paper, you will work directly with the author on the resubmission. For papers with co-authors, the system notifies only the corresponding author, and only that person can interact with the system to accept or upload revisions.

The author who accepts the ‘pending revision’ needs to submit two files. The first is the revised article. In the second, the revision document, the author describes the changes made and if other suggestions are not incorporated in the revision, why not.

The next step is for you to review the changes the author made and decide whether or not the author fulfilled all the requirements stated in your development letter to your satisfaction. It is common for a paper to go through two or three rounds of revision before it is ready for publication. As the paper gets closer to being ready for acceptance, the editor should ensure the author has formatted the paper to be near camera-ready according to ISI guidelines (a template is available at http://www.informingscience.org/Uploads/JournalFormat.docx), and the references are formatted in APA style (a guide is available at https://www.informingscience.org/Uploads/APA_2017.pdf). The template requires that the near camera-ready version includes a brief biography for each author along with a head and shoulders photo at the end of the paper. Doing these steps before the final version saves the author time in getting the paper published.