Help:Getting started guide for Authors
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This document describes the steps to publish an article on Scholarpedia. You need to be registered and logged in to work on your article.
Propose article
| Click on "Propose a new article" on the left panel. | 
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| Fill in the title of your proposed article (Use "sentence-style" capitalization). | 
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Invite co-authors
| To invite co-author, click "Invite co-author" in the right panel. You will see an invitation link that you can copy and send to the persons that you would like to invite as a co-authors. | 
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Find sponsors
| In order to reserve an article, you need to find a sponsor. A sponsor can be any editor or curator of Scholarpedia. To request sponsorship, click "Request sponsorship, reserve article" on the right panel. | 
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| You will see a sponsor link that you can copy and send to a Scholarpedia curator or editor that may be willing to sponsor your article and authorship: | 
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| When following the link, the potential sponsor will see the article information. He can optionally suggest further experts as co-author.
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Submit for peer-review
| Once your article got sponsored it is reserved and you have two months to complete it (including the peer-review). You can contact an editor in order to ask for an extension of the deadline. Instructions on editing the article you find here: [1] | 
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| Once you believe that your article is ready for the peer-review, click "Submit for peer-review" on the right panel. You will see a link that you can send to potential reviewers who must be a Scholarpedia editor or curator. | 
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| The potential reviewer will see the following screen: | 
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Publish
| After your article got approved by at least one of the article sponsors and at least one other curator your article is ready to be published and you will see the following: | 
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| Congratulations, your article is published now. The sponsor and reviewer names appear at the end of your article. They become "Assistant curators" of your article which means that they can accept or reject article edits by other Scholarpedia users. | 
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