PRE-SUBMISSION
Authors must follow the instructions set in the Author Guidelines. 

SUBMISSION STAGE
Manuscripts that have been submitted will go through an internal review by the Editorial Board, in which

• The manuscripts will be evaluated to see whether they are in accordance with the focus and scope of the Saintara Journal. The manuscripts that are not in accordance will be rejected, but if an adjustment is possible, the authors will be requested to revise.
• The manuscripts will also be checked with Turnitin to identify any evidence of plagiarism before being reviewed by qualified reviewers. If the authors receive the message "Turnitin check: fail" in the Discussion Box, the authors will be recommended to revise, or the manuscript will be rejected depending on the results of the similarity check.

Upon submission, authors will receive an official email notification regarding the outcome of the initial review. This review determines whether the manuscript can proceed to the Review stage or not. If the manuscript does not pass the initial review, the editorial team will assess its potential before making a final decision. Based on this evaluation, the editors may either reject the manuscript outright or provide the authors with an opportunity to revise their work and resubmit it for further consideration.

For manuscripts that successfully pass the initial review, a Section Editor will be assigned to oversee the next stage of processing. To comply with the journal's double-blind peer review policy, the Section Editor will prepare a second version of the manuscript. In this version, all identifying information, such as author names, affiliations, email addresses, and acknowledgments of individuals or institutions, will be temporarily removed. This version will be forwarded to reviewers for assessment and evaluation.

REVIEW STAGE
The editors will request at least one expert to review the manuscript. With the double-blind peer review system, both authors' and reviewers' identities will remain anonymous to each other in all rounds to avoid bias and conflicts of interest.

As you can see in the Peer Reviewing Guidelines, each reviewer will be given 2-3 weeks to complete their reviews. The time can be longer if the assigned reviewer becomes unavailable, and further decisions will have to await newly requested reviewers to respond and complete their revisions. Therefore, patience on the authors' part is requested during this stage.

Once the reviewer completes their review, the Editorial Board will arrive at a decision, which can be:

• Accept Submission: Saintara Journal will publish the paper in its original form
• Revisions Required: Saintara Journal will publish the paper provided the authors make the changes suggested by the reviewers and/or editors
• Resubmit for Review: Saintara Journal is willing to reconsider the manuscript in another round of review after the authors make major revisions 
• Resubmit Elsewhere: Saintara Journal will not publish the paper, but the author is recommended to submit to another journal
• Decline Submission (rejection): Saintara Journal will not publish the paper or reconsider it even if the authors make major revisions

REVISION (ADDITIONAL REVIEW ROUND) STAGE
The corresponding author will be informed of the editorial decision and will be given 1-2 weeks to revise the manuscript. The authors are encouraged to reply and respond to the reviewers' comments in the attached Word files, although they are not required to address every single comment.

Authors must submit the revised file to the Revision Box. The editors will evaluate the manuscript within one to seven days and, depending on the latest quality of the manuscript, may add an additional round of review or decide to accept or reject the manuscript.

If authors are unable to meet the revision deadline, they may request an extension multiple times, with the duration depending on the circumstances they communicate to the editors.

If the corresponding authors fail to meet the revision deadline and do not inform the editors of their reasons, the editor will send a first reminder and extend the revision deadline by an additional week. If the corresponding authors receive a third reminder, miss the third deadline extension, and still do not communicate with the editors, Saintara Journal reserves the right to reject the manuscript. Resubmission is acceptable as long as the authors have made the necessary revisions.

The Editorial Board has the authority to decide which manuscripts should be published and may make necessary adjustments related to language without altering the substance. Any substantive edits will be discussed with the authors beforehand.

PRE-ACCEPTANCE
If the editorial board finds the manuscript acceptable for publication, authors will be informed and requested to complete two tasks:

• Complete the payment of the article publishing charge.
• Complete author biodata using an attached Word file. Every single author must provide the biodata so that the author biography under their published papers can be displayed. The editors will refer to the biodata to create the Letter of Acceptance (LoA).

Detailed instructions on how to complete each task will be sent in the email.

After the editorial board has confirmed that all authors have fulfilled both tasks, we will send the authors their Letter of Acceptance (LoA) and start to copyedit the manuscript.

COPYEDITING STAGE
The editors will take care of the manuscript in this stage. However, authors must frequently check the Discussion Box for further instructions if necessary. The copyeditor will inform the authors to submit their biodata files using the appropriate discussion subjects. 

The final version of the manuscript will be subjected to a final Turnitin check, and the report will be sent to the corresponding author. Further proofreading or editing by the authors might be requested at this stage.

Authors will not be able to withdraw the manuscript at this point. Changes of authorship may be possible at this point, but authors will need to provide strong reasons.

Once the copyediting is done, authors will be emailed that their manuscript will move on to the production stage.

PRODUCTION STAGE
The editors will conduct a final check and assign the manuscript's Volume, Issue and DOI. Page numbers will be given after an issue has been formally published and completed in March or September. Only the editorial board can retract, remove, or replace the manuscripts after formal publication.