Yes. You register with your email address and a password of your choice. If you have a choice of email addresses, it's always best for security reasons to use a personal email address rather than a shared address or an address that may be reassigned to someone else (such as labhead@university.edu). And as with all passwords, you should choose something that won't be easy for others to guess, so please avoid using any form of your name or a family member's name, a pet's name, your birth date, social security number, etc.

A verification email will be sent to your email address. Click on the URL (or paste it into your browser) to verify the email address. This ensures that no else who knows your email address can use it to register with the system. It also ensures that the address is a valid one, and doesn't contain any typos.

After you choose your password, it is stored in an encrypted fashion and no one else has access to it, not even the journal or Bench>Press staff. But as with all passwords, you should choose something that won't be easy for others to guess. For example, don't use any form of your name or a family member's name, a pet's name, your social security number, birth date, etc. You are also asked to answer a security question; if you forget your password, you must correctly answer the security question to receive a new password. To further ensure confidentiality, please don't share your password with anyone.

You can use your email address and password to access other Bench>Press systems so that you don't have to memorize multiple passwords. Your sign-in information, however, is the only information that's shared, and that's why you will need to create a basic profile for each site, including your contact information. This also means that if you change your address you must make the change with all the journals with whom you have accounts.

If you check this box a cookie will store information on your computer so your email address will be retained. Your sign-in will still be secure, since you still need to enter your password.

From the sign-in page you can enter the Personal Information Area to update your address, areas of expertise and availability or change your password. Once you are signed into the system, you can click on Personal Info in the navigation bar to make the same types of changes.

Everyone can enter the Author and Reviewer areas of the system, but only authorized editorial staff and board members can enter the Tracking area.

Yes. Only those listed as authors, non-author submitters (for example, an assistant that submits a manuscript on your behalf), and designated editorial staff, board members, and reviewers will have appropriate access to your paper.