If you are able to login to the journal, you can change your email address by clicking 'Change Email' under 'Your JCSE' (at the top right of the page). If you have forgotten your password, so will not be able to login (since the password reminder will be sent to you old email address), please contact JCSE Administration, giving both the old and the new email address. Please avoid re-registering as this clutters our database with non-functioning accounts, which cause problems with email deliverability.
This suggests that your account has been marked for deletion as part of our efforts to remove defunct and suspect email addresses. Unless your account looks very suspect you should have received an email asking you to confirm your email address, and your account will be restored when you click this. If you did not receive the email (check your spam/junk mail folder) please contact JCSE Administration; give your email address and ask for the account to be restored.
JCSE is free to both authors and readers. We get a very small income from the Google-provided advertisements (it is so small that we have not yet considered it worth asking Google to pay it), but in essence this is a 'spare-time' activity of the Editor. Unfortunately, this does mean that things don't always get done as quickly as we would like!
The registration process is fully-automated, and should be relatively straightforward. When you complete and submit a registration form, an email will be sent to you, and this email includes a link that you must click in order to verify that we have got a working email address. Sometimes this link is split across two lines by email reading programs, and in this case it may not work correctly because only the first line is passed to the browser. To solve this problem, you should copy and paste the second part of the link into the browser address box, ensuring that there are no spaces between the first and second parts of the address, then press Go to submit the confirmation. If you still can't get this to work, please forward the email asking you to confirm your registration to :regProblemLink.
If you don't get the confirmation email then this suggests either that the email address that you entered is incorrect, or that the confirmation email has been deleted by a spam blocking program, or maybe there is a problem with your email, such as a full inbox. If you have access to blocked spam, then check this for messages from journal administration (address admin@jcse.org). To avoid problems with spam blockers, add admin@jcse.org to your address book. If the confirmation email fails to arrive, you can resend it on the registration page. Then you can resend the confirmation email, but first add Admin@jcse.org to your contacts so that messages hopefully do not get stopped by the spam blocker. The resend page will also tell you if the address that you have entered has not been registered, which suggests that you entered it incorrectly when registering (or if it is a long time since you first registered, we may have deleted the address during a clear-out of unconfirmed registration requests). In this case,just resubmit your registration.
If you don't receive an email when we say that you should do, this suggests either that the email address that we are sending to is not working, or that messages from JCSE are being blocked as spam. In this situation, go through the following steps:
The usual reason for getting this message is that your mail reader has forced the link to the confirmation page onto two lines, and when you click on the link the second line is not included. You can get around this by manually copying and pasting the second part of the link into the browser address bar.
Potential authors often send abstracts of their proposed paper and ask if we would be able to publish it in JCSE. Providing there is at least some link with corrosion, the answer is always yes, but authors need to understand that this is qualified by the way JCSE works, which is not like a conventional paper-based journal. All reputable scientific journals undertake to test the papers that they publish against standards of 'scientific correctness'. Conventional Journals do this at the submission stage. At JCSE we publish the submitted paper without any review as a preprint. This is subsequently subject to conventional peer review, following which it is published as a full paper.
It is important for authors to realise that their paper will be exposed to the general public in exactly the form that it is submitted. It is, therefore, in authors' interests to ensure themselves that their paper is suitable for publication.
JCSE is produced without any financial support, except for a small income from the adverts that appear on many pages (this is currently so small that it has not been worth withdrawing it from our account). Consequently, the management of the paper editing and review process is a 'spare-time' activity, and sadly we have very little spare time, so this has got very much behind our intended timescale.
We this new implementation of the Journal software that will automate many of these processes, and make it possible for us to appoint associate editors who will be able to assist with the management of the paper review process (this has not previously been feasible because of the need for some of the management to operate by way of direct access to the database, which would be far to error-prone). It is hoped that this system will come online shortly. There will still be a large backlog of papers to complete, but we shall then be able to concentrate on doing this.
If you are waiting for a response from us, then there are several possible explanations:
We permit this, but we would very much prefer if you put up a link to the paper (go to the paper and copy the address in the address bar of the browser) rather than a copy of the paper for a number of reasons:
It is open to any reader to opt to join the panel of reviewers for JCSE. if you login to the Journal and look at YourJCSE | Preferences you just need to select the Will Review box. This will automatically add you to the list of potential reviewers. You should also select relevant keywords (also via YourJCSE) so that we can match your interests to papers needing review. Note, however, that we reserve the right to remove users from the review panel if they do not appear to have appropriate qualifications or experience.