This journal uses the Concept Tech Publishing System software for management and publishing support.It has been designed to reduce the time and energy devoted to the clerical and managerial tasks associated with editing a journal, while improving the record-keeping and efficiency of editorial processes. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of journal publishing through a number of innovations, from making journal policies more transparent to improving indexing.

CTPS is a journal and web site management and publishing system. CTPS covers all aspects of online journal publishing, from establishing a journal website to operational tasks such as the author's submission process, peer review, editing, publication, archiving, and indexing of the journal. CTPS also helps to manage the people aspects of organizing a journal, including keeping track of the work of editors, reviewers, and authors, notifying readers, and assisting with the correspondence.

CTPS is flexible and scalable.

Editorial Process

CTPS moves submissions to the journal through five steps in the editorial process, which will be managed by one or more of the editors.

1. Unassigned Queue: Items begin here and are assigned to one or more editors.
2. Submission Review: Items undergo peer review and editorial decision.
3. Submission Editing: Items undergo copyediting, layout, and proofreading. The submission is assigned to an issue for publication.
4. Table of Contents: Items are ordered for publication and are published.

Editorial Roles

• Journal Manager: Sets up the journal and staffs editorial roles (can also serve as an Editor and other roles).
• Editor: Oversees editorial process; can assign submissions to Section Editors to see through Submission Review and Submission Editing; undertakes scheduling of content and publishing of journal.
• Section Editor: Oversees Submission Review and possibly Submission Editing for assigned submissions.
• Copyeditor: Works with submissions to improve grammar and clarity, poses questions to author on possible errors, and ensures strict adherence to journal's bibliographic and textual style.
• Layout Editor: Transforms copyedited submissions into galleys in HTML, PDF, and/or PS files in the proper format for electronic publishing.
• Proofreader: Reads galleys for typographic and formatting errors.

A support forum and bug reporting system for technical issues can be accessed via the CTPS.

Users who have questions about interacting with a particular journal site using CTPS or that journal's policies are encouraged to contact the journal's principal or support contacts, listed on the journal web site's About page.