I was told in an e-mail that I need to review the converted PDF for review, but why cant I find it in my Author Area?
As soon as your uploaded documents are converted into a single PDF for review, you must pay the $50 submission fee before you can review the PDF and approve of your submission in order to send it to the journals editorial office for processing. Your submission is inside a queue titled Awaiting Submission Payment. The e-mail alerting you that the conversion was successful indicates this, but the correspondence is automated and describes different submission types, not all of which require a fee. Only unsolicited regular submissions, such as Regular Articles and Brief Reports, require a fee. Letters to the Editor and invited Review Articles do not. The fee must be paid online using a Visa, MasterCard, or American Express. Once the fee is paid, you will receive an e-mail serving as an acknowledgment and a receipt, and you will find your submission in the Author Area inside the queue Ready for You to Proof.