We will notify the authors that we have received the manuscript and will assign a manuscript number. We prefer that authors provide an email address through which we may communicate with him or her. However, a snail mail address will suffice if the author does not use email.

The manuscript will be submitted to one or more reviewers for review and criticisms. We will submit the comments of the reviewer(s) to the author. Some recommendations for revisions may be accepted or rejected by the author, but others may be required. Revisions that are necessary for the manuscript to fit the format requirements of Thyroid Science will be required.

If we accept the author's manuscript for publication, he or she must download the Copyright Transfer Agreement from McDowell Health-Science Books, LLC. Each author of the manuscript must sign the agreement and transmit the Agreement to McDowell Health-Science books, LLC through one of the methods listed in the Agreement.

Cover Letter. Send a cover letter with your manuscript submission that includes the following:

(1) Title of the manuscript,
(2) full names of the all authors,
(3) the email and snail mail address of the author we should correspond with,
(4) a statement to the effect that the manuscript is not being considered for publication by any other publication, 
(5) the file names and format of electronically submitted files and figures, and
(6) the email and snail mail addresses as well as the phone numbers of at least two people the author or authors consider appropriate referees to critique and evaluate the manuscript.

Send the cover letter with the manuscript. If submitted by snail mail, authors must send three copies of the manuscript.

Recommended Reviewers. For all types of submissions except letters and short debate notes, we request that the author recommend reviewers who are not on the International Review Board of Thyroid Science. If possible, the author should recommend two to four reviewers.

The recommended reviewers should be people whom the author or authors believe to be knowledgeable in the subject of the paper and qualified to critique the paper's contents. The purpose for authors recommending reviewers is to avail themselves of people they consider best qualified to help, through their critiques, improve the merits of the paper. The reviewers recommended should not work in the same facility as the author or authors, but work in other institutions, practices, cities, states, or countries.

It is not essential that the author or authors recommend reviewers. When reviewers are not recommended, Thyroid Science review board members will be asked to conduct the reviews. Recommending reviewers is suggested, however, because it is likely to hasten the review process and publication of the paper.