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comments made by the reviewers have been correctly addressed or replies
contain convincing arguments against the statements of the reviewers.
More details about this step are given in the next chapter where the role
of the Editor-in-Chief and of the reviewers is discussed in more detail.
High quality journals used to revise the manuscript for English lan-
guage and grammar. It is a pity that nowadays this is rarely done anymore,
even for submitted monographs. Copy editors implement the journal’s
manuscript style or check if this has been done by the authors in an
appropriate way.
The paper is typeset and proof-read by professional, preferably native
English speaking, proof-readers (again it is assumed here that the work is
meant for an international audience) who identify any typographical
errors and highlight possible inconsistencies. Once this is complete the
typeset proofs are sent to the corresponding author(s).
Either all authors receive typeset proofs, so-called galley proofs, from
the publisher or the corresponding author makes sure that they do. When
all authors agree on the final page-proof the work is ready to be
published.
The article receives a DOI (a Digital Object Identifier) a code that
uniquely identifies the article. For instance, the publication by Hirsch
(2005) has DOI “10.1073/pnas.0507655102” and can be retrieved from
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0507655102. Nowadays the article is usu-
ally published online in a “preview” version. This version is exactly the
same as the final version except that volume, issue and page numbers are
not yet assigned.
Finally the article is published in a particular issue of a journal’s vol-
ume and assigned page numbers. If a journal is published only electroni-
cally there is no reason to go through this “preview” step and the article
is published immediately; it often has no page numbers, just an article
number. A similar observation holds for journals that follow an article-
based publishing strategy. This means that when accepted an article is
immediately published in its final form, including volume, issue and page
numbers.

2.3.4 Qualifying for Authorship
Returning to the issue of publishing, we consider the important question:
What is an author? We next describe the guidelines as published in