All papers of the journal are peer reviewed by two independent reviewers. Acceptance is granted when both reviewers recommendations are positive. Journal issues will be made available online for download (Section: Archives).

Initial review: The Editor-in-Chief evaluates each paper to determine if the topic and content are suitable for consideration by the journal. Papers that do not meet minimum criteria are returned to the authors within two weeks of receipt. Then the authors could decide to either correct the problems or to submit the paper to a more appropriate venue, avoiding delays from a lengthy review process that would nonetheless lead to rejection.

Peer review: Papers that pass the initial review are assigned to an Associate Editor, who selects several referees based on their expertise in that particular field. Each paper is reviewed by at least two referees under a single-blind peer review process where the referees are kept anonymous. Referees are asked to evaluate the paper based on the basis of their originality, novelty, clarity, completeness, significance, soundness of methodology, and research contribution and relevance to design practices. Based on the Review Remarks, the papers may be placed in any one of the categories like Reject, Reconsider after Revision, or Accept as it is. To facilitate timely publication, referees are asked to complete their reviews within 5 weeks. After collecting the referees' reports, the Associate Editor makes a recommendation on the acceptability of the paper to the Editor-in-Chief.

Recommendation: Based on the referees' comments and the Associate Editor's recommendation, the Editor-in-Chief makes a final decision on the acceptability of the paper and communicates to the authors the decision, along with referees' reports. The final decision can be "Accept Submission", "Resubmit for Review", "Reject", or "Decline Submission." A revised paper should be re-submitted within 2 weeks of the decision. It will usually be reviewed by Associate Editor for evaluation.
The authors will be sent confirmation of acceptance for publication. If accepted, the authors will be sent an email about the following stages.

Copy editing, layout and proofreading (estimated time of 4 weeks): Following acceptance, the manuscript will be copy-edited and typeset into pages. Authors may be asked to correct the manuscript according to the results of copy-editing. The authors will be sent PDF page proofs for comment and subsequent approval.

Making changes to articles after publication: It is very important that authors carefully check final PDF proofs before publication as we cannot make corrections to published articles. Once an article is electronically published, corrections of critical errors may only be made via publication of a 'Corrigendum’ or ‘Erratum’ article that would be published electronically, and would link back and forth with the original article.