Online Help

If you were registered in Paragon, then you are registered in ACS Paragon Plus, providing you have been an author or reviewer for a journal that is now using ACS Paragon Plus.

Log in with the same User ID and Password you used for Paragon. After logging in, click on "Edit Your Account" (beside your name), to ensure that your account information transferred correctly.

Paragon does not contain all of the fields that are required in the new ACS Paragon Plus Environment, so you are being asked to enter the additional required fields and update your account information.

We transferred the information you provided for Paragon and supplemented it with information the ACS Journal Offices compile when they receive manuscripts.

No. The ACS Paragon Plus Environment is replacing the ACS Paragon System, on a journal-by-journal basis. See Which System Should I Use? for a list of journals using the new system.

Yes, you can continue to use your Paragon account with the same User ID and Password you use now. However, the two systems are completely separate, so if you change your User ID or Password in one system, the change will not be conveyed to the other.

If you had no e-mail address in Paragon (or it was invalid), or we could not confirm your e-mail address based on information in the internal ACS Journal Office system, you were given a temporary e-mail address. Please change it to a valid e-mail address as soon as possible.

The use of the Back button is not supported in the ACS Paragon Plus Environment. Please use the navigation links located on each page to return to a previous page. If you inadvertently click on the Back button, you may be logged out of the system, but there is no danger of losing your work. Simply log in again and continue working.

You may continue to contact the ACS Help Desk with any issues or questions that you have.

If you have already begun submission in Paragon, simply complete that submission in Paragon by the deadline that has been communicated to you by e-mail. If you don’t complete the submission in Paragon by that deadline, you will have to start a new submission in the ACS Paragon Plus Environment. If you complete your submission by the deadline, the manuscript will be transferred to ACS Paragon Plus with the same status that it carries in Paragon. For example, if the manuscript is waiting for reviewers to be selected in Paragon, after the transfer, it will be waiting for reviewers to be selected in ACS Paragon Plus.

Log in to ACS Paragon Plus and click the "My Authoring Activity" tab.You will see a list of activities called "queues".All of your manuscripts that have been accepted or rejected will be in the "Manuscripts with Decisions" queue.Withdrawn manuscripts will be found in the "Withdrawn Manuscripts" queue. Manuscripts needing revision will be in either the "Manuscripts with Decision" queue (if the revision hasn’t been started) or the "Revised Manuscripts in Draft" queue (if the revision has been started).

The Author Guidelines, along with other helpful documents and instructions, are available at http://pubs.acs.org/paragonplus/submission/.

Authors can now add their own co-authors for a manuscript on the "Authors & Institutions" page, using one of two methods. If the co-authors are registered in ACS Paragon Plus, enter a valid e-mail address in ACS Paragon Plus and search for each record. If you cannot locate the co-author by this method, you can enter all of the data for your co-authors, and they will be added to ACS Paragon Plus. Co-authors who wish to create accounts associated with the e-mail addresses you enter will be able to track the manuscript’s progress on their own ACS Paragon Plus home pages.

Authors no longer have to submit PDF versions of their word processor or other files. ACS Paragon Plus will create these for authors incorporating all appropriate documents.

LaTeX authors no longer need to provide a PDF version of their manuscripts. By submitting all of the appropriate resource files, authors will have a PDF prepared for them. See the specific instructions for submitting LaTeX files

Authors must still enter three reviewer names with a submission

Specifying the Manuscript Type is still required and the types have not changed

Authors must still specify if the manuscript cites any unpublished work

Authors must still specify the section in which the manuscript should be published

Authors must still verify that they have read the ACS Ethical Guidelines

Authors must still verify that they have not submitted the manuscript elsewhere

Corresponding authors must still provide a Copyright Status Form that has been signed by hand (no electronic signatures are allowed). However, authors have the option of uploading a PDF or TIFF version of the manually signed form at the time of submission, selecting "Completed Copyright Form" as the file designation.

You can choose to submit your manuscript with all of the graphics embedded in the manuscript or you can submit the text of the manuscript without the graphics embedded. In the latter case, you would submit the graphics as separate files.

If a Journal Editor created your ACS Paragon Plus reviewer account for you, you will receive this message when you first log in. You must update your Account information in order to create all of the data needed by the system.

You should complete the review and send it to the Journal Office by your normal method: regular mail or e-mail, etc. They will take care of making sure it ends up where it should.

Previous reviews submitted via Paragon and their associated manuscripts will not be available in ACS Paragon Plus. In your "Reviewing Assigment" tab on your Home page, you will see a list of activities called "queues". All manuscripts that you review in ACS Paragon Plus will be in one of these queues. Manuscripts that you have been asked to review but for which you have not submitted a review will be in the "Review and Score" queue. Manuscripts for which a review is past the deadline will be in the "Overdue Reviews" queue. Initially there will be no entries in the "Scores Submitted" queue. As you submit reviews in ASC Paragon Plus, they will be captured and tracked in your "Scores Submitted" queue.

The Reviewer Guidelines, along with other helpful documents and instructions, are available at http://pubs.acs.org/paragonplus/review/.

Log in to ACS Paragon Plus with the same User ID and Password that you used for Paragon. If you did not have a User ID and Password for Paragon, or if you have trouble logging in to ACS Paragon Plus, contact the ACS Help Desk. If you prefer not to create an account in ACS Paragon Plus, you can access the manuscript through the link provided in the e-mail asking you to review the revision.

The reviewer form looks different and is called a "score sheet". Please don’t assume things are in the same location as they were on the Paragon reviewer form.

You don’t have to restrict your comments to a certain number of characters.

Attaching files is permissible and easily accomplished.