How do I add tags to a manuscript?

Why are manuscript tags useful?

Manuscript tags are manually created by your team to categorize and enrich the information available at a glance for your manuscript. They're visible and filterable on the manuscript table to make it easy for you to pull up all papers with a given tag at once.

Examples of how you might use tags:

  • To denote if a paper is in the "technical check" stage
  • To mark a paper as "published"
  • To indicate if a paper's primary author is a professor at your journal's home institution

Note: If your journal has a very large number of unique manuscript tags it can affect your account's performance and just generally become unwieldy for your team when trying to sort through and select between all the old tags! Be judicious and thoughtful when making new tags.

We recommend thinking of creating tags like you create folders on your computer. They should: be used to organize content, be intended for repeated use, and to make it easy for you to search and find all papers with that tag later.

If you want to leave general notes about a paper, rather than categorizing the paper with a filterable tag, you can use the Notepad on the manuscript work area for that paper. To view those notes at a glance in the manuscript table, just toggle on the optional "Notes" column when you're editing your table view.

Assign tags to a single manuscript

As an editor, on the manuscript details page, click "Add Tags" (or "Edit tags" if a tag has already been added to that manuscript) near the top of the page below the manuscript title:

This will open a lightbox where you can add tags either by typing the tag name (followed by a comma) or choosing from a list of existing tags:

After you've finished adding tags, click "Save tags" to commit your changes.


For more information on managing tags, please click here.

Assign tags to multiple manuscripts at once

The assign tags bulk action allows you to assign tags to all of the selected manuscripts at once.

Simply select the manuscripts you want to tag from the manuscript table, choose 'Assign tags' from the bulk manuscript actions menu, and then assign one or more tags and click save.


For more information on bulk actions, please click here.

Deleting/editing/managing the journal's full list of tags

To learn how to delete, edit, and generally manage the list of manuscript tags for your journal please click here.