The stages of Peer Review, accepting and publishing articles in the Packaging Science and Art Quarterly are as follows:

1- Announcement of the editor's opinion (Initial Review); (If the file is complete, the article will be sent to the editor to determine the scientific level and degree of suitability with the thematic axis of the publication, determine the referee and finally obtain permission to enter the Peer Review process). This stage takes a maximum of 10 days.

• If the editor's opinion is positive about the mentioned items, the article will enter the next stage.
• If their opinion is negative, the article will be presented in the editorial meeting to determine the assignment and possibly issue a letter of non-acceptance.

2- controlling the article in terms of compliance with the items mentioned in the style sheet and format of the publication; (If there are errors in the files and the format of the publication is not followed, the article will be returned to the author to complete the items).

3- Submission to arbitration; (If the files are complete and the format of the publication is fully respected, the article will be sent to 3 or 4 Reviewers at the same time).

** The type of Peer Review in this Journal is Double anonymous **

4- Completing the result of the preliminary review and sending it to the authors to make corrections;

• If the result of 2 referees is positive, the article will be sent to the editorial department.
• If the result is 1 positive review and 1 negative review, it will be sent to the 3rd reviewer. If the 3rd reviewer's opinion is positive, editing will be created for the author to make the corrections desired by the reviewers. But if the opinion of the 3rd referee is negative, the rejection of the article will be notified to the author.
• If the result of 2 referees is negative, the article will be presented in the editorial meeting to determine the status. If the reviewers' comments are approved by the editorial staff, a rejection letter will be issued.

5- receiving corrections and sending the article to the final referee; (If the files are complete and the items mentioned in the editing letter are complied with, the article will be sent to one of the previous referees to control the corrections).

6- Receiving the opinions of the final referee and presenting the article in the editorial meeting to announce the final opinion;

• If the author's corrections are fully approved by the final referee, the article will be submitted to the editorial board for acceptance.
• If some amendments are not approved by the final referee, the article will be returned to the author. It is worth noting that this step is repeated only once. After the author's corrections, the article is again sent to the final referee for control. If the corrections made at this stage are still not approved by the final referee, the article will be presented in the editorial meeting to determine the assignment and issue non-acceptance.

7- Placement of accepted articles in the list of articles ready for publication;

8- Publication of the article.

  Note: All correspondence is done with the responsible author, and the follow-up of all matters related to the stages and results of the arbitration, the time of editing, acceptance and printing of the article is done only by the responsible author of the article. The journal office is exempted from responding to other co-authors of the article.