To ensure the integrity of anonymous peer review for journal submission, attempts should be made to keep authors and reviewers from knowing each other's identities. This involves authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been carefully followed regarding the text and file properties:

      1. The authors of the document have removed their names from the text, with "Author" and the                   year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the name of the authors, the title of the                   article, etc.

      2. In Microsoft Office documents, author identifications should also be removed from the file                         properties.

           For Microsoft 2003 and earlier versions, and Macintosh versions of Word:

                  - Choose from the File menu: Save As > Tools (or Options on Mac) > Security > Remove                                  personal information in file properties on save > Save.

            For MacIntosh Word 2008 (and future versions)

                  1. From the File menu select "Properties".
                  2. On the Summary tab, remove identifying information from all fields.
                  3. Save the File.

            For Microsoft 2007 (Windows):

                  1. Click the Office button in the upper left corner of the Office app
                  2. Select "Prepare" from the Options menu.
                  3. Select "Properties" for the "Prepare" Options menu.
                  4. Remove all information from the document properties fields that appear below the main                          options menu.
                  5. Save the document and close the document properties fields section.

            For Microsoft 2010 (Windows):

                 1. From the File menu select "Prepare for Sharing".
                 2. Click the "Issue Check" icon.
                 3. Click the "Inspect Document" icon.
                 4. Uncheck all the boxes except "Document properties and personal information".
                 5. Run the Document Inspector, which will search the document properties and indicate                                 whether any document property fields contain any information.
                 6. If the Document Inspector finds information it will notify you and give you the option to                           "Remove All", which you will need to click to remove all document properties and personal                       information.

       3. For PDF files:

                    - In PDFs, author names should also be removed from the document properties found                                  under File in the Adobe Acrobat main menu.