On Janeway, issues organise articles for publication. While articles do not have to be part of an issue, some external services (such as Crossref) require that articles be assigned to an issue. As such, it is recommended to use issues where possible. If your journal uses continuous publication, it is recommended to create yearly issues to add articles to.

Articles are typically assigned to issues during the Pre-publication stage, but can be assigned a projected issue at any point in the publication workflow. Issues can also be managed independently through the Issue manager, available from both the Manager page and the main sidebar.

Janeway provides two built-in issue types:

• Issue
  The standard publication issue.
• Collection
  Used to group related articles across volumes or years.

Issues are automatically assigned to a volume. They can either have their own volume or share a volume with other issues (for example, Volume 1 - Issue 1, Volume 1 – Issue 2).

You can use Volume 0 for ongoing thematic collections — especially those that are not tied to a specific year or publication sequence. Using Volume 0 also ensures they do not interrupt the listings of regular issues on the issue page.

This page lists all existing issues and provides options for creating, editing, reordering, and managing them.

From this page, you can perform the following actions:

• Sort by date descending / ascending
  Reorders issues by publication date. Sorting changes the display order of issues on the public site, and changes take effect immediately.

• Edit display settings
  Opens configuration options for how issue titles and metadata are displayed. For more information, see Display settings.

• Create issue
  Lets you create a new issue. For more information, see Creating and editing issue details.

In addition, the issue list is presented in a table format. For each issue, the following actions are available:

• View
  Opens the Manage issue page, where you can edit metadata, manage the table of contents, assign guest editors, and upload galleys.
• Delete
  Permanently deletes the issue. This cannot be undone.
• Make current
  Sets the selected issue as the journal's current issue. The current issue does not display this button.

You can also drag and drop issues to manually change their order; the new order updates the public display immediately. You can view publication data such as volume, issue number, publication date, and number of articles directly from the table.

You can create new issues from this page using the Create issue button and you view and edit the detail of individual issues by selecting them.

You can set the standard issue metadata and images for the issue on this page. Information on the sizes of the cover image and large image can be found in the Styling section. In addition, you can also provide identifiers for the issue (DOI or ISBN), set an issue type or provide an issue code.

• Issue code
  This optional alphanumeric slug is used to generate a human-readable URL for an issue. It can consist of lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens (no spaces or special characters). For example, if you enter winter-special-issue, the issue URL will be: yourjournal.com/collection/code/winter-special-issue/

• Issue type
  You can select the issue type here; you can either select 'issue' or 'collection', or any custom issue types you have created for the journal.

• Issue DOI
  You can enter the issue DOI here. It will be registered when articles belonging to it are registered. The value entered must be the DOI only (not a full URL). If the 'issue autoregistration' setting is enabled, this field must remain empty, as the DOI will be created automatically during the article registration process.

• Issue ISBN
  If this issue has an ISBN, it can be entered here. This will only be relevant for specific (non-serial) types of content such as conference proceedings.

Clicking on View in the table listing all issues takes you through to the issue page where you can alter an individual issue. The page is split into four sections.

• Issue management
  This block displays the issue metadata and allows you to edit it, delete it, mark it as the current issue, and if the issue is published there is a link to view it on the journal website.

• Galleys
  You can upload a galley file for the whole issue, usually a PDF , so that users can download the full issue in one go.

• Table of contents

• Guest editors

In this section, you can add articles to or remove articles from the issue, sort the sections and sort the articles within their sections.

For each section, there are arrow icons that allow you to move the section up and down; each of the articles can be dragged and dropped into order from inside their section.

You can drop an article from an issue by clicking Remove and add new ones by clicking Add article.

A list of all articles in the journal not already in the issue is displayed, and you can click the Add button to place it in the issue.

An issue can list guest editors if the articles aren't being handled by the normal editorial team. Click Manage to add or edit guest editors for the issue/collection. When adding a new guest editor you can also enter a role other than 'Guest editor', which is set as the default. All users with activated accounts are listed here, click the Add button next to their name to add them as a guest editor.

To configure how issue titles and details are displayed, click Edit display settings in the top-right corner of the Issue management page.

You can turn these elements on or off:

• Volume number
• Issue number
• Issue year
• Issue title
• Article number
• Article page numbers
• Issue DOI - see Issue DOI management
• Group issues by decade If your journal has a lot of issues you can use this feature to allow readers to jump to a specific decade on the issues interface.

Example display formats:

• Volume 6 • Issue 3 • Fall 2015 • 5–17
• Winter 2009 • 19 pages
• Volume 35 • 2021 • Number 49

Janeway allows editors to mark articles as projected to be published within a given issue. This can be done in the Unassigned stage by using the Assign projected issue button. On the projected issue screen, you can select, from a drop-down, the issue you expect the article to be published in. Assigning an article to a projected issue is not the same as assigning an article directly to an issue. Projected issues are used mainly for internal tracking.