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Note: Blackwell Synergy content has now moved to Wiley InterScience as the first step in the development of a new online platform for Wiley-Blackwell. When your article is published online, you will still have free online access to the PDF. Unfortunately we are unable to provide access to the HTML version, but hope to restore this link some time in the future. Thanks for your understanding. If you have any trouble accessing your PDF online, please contact e-help@wiley.com and include the journal name, your article title and your full name.

For more details on the changes to Blackwell Synergy visit www.interscience.wiley.com/transition-users

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What would you like to do?

• Find a journal suitable for my manuscript
• View the list of subjects in which Blackwell publishes
• View the full list of journals          

• Prepare a journal manuscript
• Get help with preparing my manuscript and illustrations
• Get help for non-native English authors          

• Optimize your article for search engines
• Learn how to optimize your manuscript before submission.     

• Submit a manuscript to the Editorial Office for a journal
• Submit a manuscript (registration not necessary).     

• Find out the status of my submitted journal manuscript
• Check manuscript status.     

• Register for production tracking for the first time 
• Track the production of your accepted journal manuscript.     

• Find out the production status of my accepted manuscript
• Log in at the right with your username and password to view your My Publications page.          

• View Proofs of my accepted, typeset manuscript
• You should receive an e-mail with instructions on how to view your proofs. If you have not received this information, please refer to the author guidelines for the journal or contact the production editor.          

• Order Reprints or Offprints of your article
• Order Reprints or Offprints.          

 

Other resources  

• Authors, Editors and Contributors can receive a 25% discount on all Wiley books (including Wiley-Blackwell titles previously Blackwell Publishing).
• Register for the book discount card here.    
• 
  Blackwell Publishing's Online Open 
• Find out about our Online Open service that offers authors the opportunity to make their articles open access and available free online through the payment of an author fee.     

• Learn my rights as a journal author
• Read the copyright FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions).     

• Author self-archiving policy
• Read about our Author self-archiving policy and the rights of authors prior to and after acceptance of their Article.     

• NIH-Funded Research
• Read details on our policy regarding the deposit of articles for research funded by the NIH in the mandate that became effective on 7 April 2008.

• Recommend a journal to my library
• Use the Library Recommendation Form.     

• View guidelines for supplementary material
• Learn about supplementary material guidelines.     

• Request permission
• Visit our Rights section to learn more about copyrighted published material from journals or books.          

• Submit a book proposal or other book-related activity
• Visit the Book Authors home page.     

• More resources
• More resources for journal authors can be found in the Author Resources section. You may also be interested in the following books: How to Write a Paper (3rd Edition, edited by George Hall) and Scientific Writing: Easy When you Know How (Peat et al).