Upon submission, an article may be desk rejected by the editors of PS or sent out for review under a double-blind review process. If the editors (in accordance with reviewer  recommendations) believe that the article would benefit from revision, the author(s) will receive a letter from the editors asking the author to revise the article as outlined by the reviewers and to resubmit it for further review by the editors and reviewers. The deadline for submitting a revision is included in the decision letter and depends on the extent of the revisions requested. Revised and resubmitted articles more than six months old will not be considered for publication in PS.

Upon acceptance, authors are asked to submit a revised, unblinded, final copy of the manuscript in Microsoft Word (no other formats are permitted) directly to the managing editor. The final version is copy-edited and returned to the author for final approval. All changes and revisions are incorporated into the manuscript electronically and submitted to the compositor to create proofs. A digitally-signed"License to Publish" form from the author will be requested before proof/production. Note: if you are seeking to convert your LaTeX submission to Word, please write the LaTeX document to a PDF and then use Adobe Acrobat to convert this to a Word document. Usually, that suffices. If not, the Pandoc package may also be useful to convert LaTeX to Word. 

One set of page proofs is sent to the author. Corrected page proofs should be returned to the managing editor within two (2) business days of receipt of the proofs. Every effort should be made to limit corrections to typographical errors. Fees charged for other changes will be the responsibility of the author.

Out of respect for the journal and the profession writ large, the editorial team of PS requests authors with manuscripts under review or published articles agree to future invitations to review manuscripts for the journal.

Appeals of editorial decisions will only be considered if they refer to a specific manuscript and must be based on evidence that either (1) an editor or reviewer made a significant factual error or (2) the integrity of the editorial decision making process was compromised.  In general, only one appeal per manuscript per decision stage will be considered. 

To appeal a decision, please send an email to ps@apsanet.org with the subject line [Manuscript Number] APPEAL.” The email will be sent to a different PS editor than the one who handled the original manuscript. They will review the appeal and decide whether to proceed with the appeal. If they accept the appeal, the editors will discuss the manuscript and render a final decision.