Write and Update Reviews

Finding Your Reviews to Write

1. In the sidebar, click Reviews
2. The To Review tab shows accepted submissions waiting for your review, grouped by conference and track. On tracks with multiple review phases each row is labeled with its phase; on single-phase tracks the row simply reads Review
3. Click "Write Review" to open the review editor. If you've already saved a draft, the button shows "Continue Draft" instead

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Writing a Review

The review page has a two-column layout:

• Left column — Submission details: title, abstract, keywords, and a link to view the submitted PDF
• Right column — The review form configured by the track chair. On multi-phase tracks its header carries a Phase badge (for example, Phase: Submission) showing which review phase you're writing for

1. Read the submission by clicking "View PDF" in the submission details
2. Fill in all required fields (marked with a red asterisk):
   • Rating fields — Select a value from each dropdown (e.g., Overall Evaluation, Reviewer Confidence)
   • Text fields — Enter your comments (e.g., Comments for Authors, Confidential Comments for Chairs)
   • File upload — Drag and drop a PDF or click "Choose File" (optional, depending on the form)
3. Click "Submit Review" at the bottom of the form

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Saving a Draft

If you aren't ready to submit, click "Save as Draft" to store your in-progress review on the server. Drafts sync across devices — you can save on your laptop and finish on another machine later.

Drafts are private to you. Chairs and other reviewers cannot see draft content — only submitted reviews are visible to them.

Resuming a draft:

1. Go to Reviews, on the To Review tab
2. Submissions with a saved draft show a "Continue Draft" button
3. Click "Continue Draft" to reopen the form with your data restored

When you're done, click "Submit Review" to finalize. The draft becomes a submitted review and it moves to the Completed tab.

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Reviewing a Later Round

When a submission reaches a revision or camera-ready round, PaperFox tells you at the top of the submission panel whether the authors actually submitted anything new for that round:

• "Revised for this round" — a new version landed, with the date it arrived.
• "No revision has been submitted for this round" — you're reading the version from the previous round. If you reviewed this submission before, the notice says so.

Chairs often assign the next round's reviewers before the authors have finished revising, so the second notice is common and does not mean anything is wrong.

If you click "Submit Review" while that notice is showing, PaperFox asks you to confirm first:

• Reading the submission for the first time this round? Click "Submit Review" — reviewing the current text is exactly what you were asked to do.
• Waiting for the authors' revision? Choose "Go Back" and click "Save as Draft" instead. You can finish once the new version arrives — a submitted review cannot be withdrawn.

Either way, the authors are never blocked from submitting their revision, even if reviews have already come in for the round.

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Missing the Review Deadline

If a review's deadline passes before you submit, the To Review row shows an amber Past due marker, and a banner at the top of the review page tells you where you stand:

• "The review deadline passed ⟨date⟩ — you can still submit your review." — the chairs accept late reviews for this phase; finish and submit as usual.
• "Review submissions are closed for this phase." — the chairs enforce the deadline, so "Submit Review" is disabled. Contact the chairs if you still need to submit; they can reopen it.

Either way, "Save as Draft" always works — a deadline never blocks saving, so work you've already typed is never lost.

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Viewing a Submitted Review

After submitting, you are redirected to the review view page. On multi-phase tracks the My Review card shows a Phase badge in its header (for example, Phase: Submission) — helpful when you review the same submission in more than one phase. The page shows:

• Submission Details — The submission information (authors are hidden in double-blind reviews); use "Hide Submission" in the page header to give the review column the full width
• My Review — Your submitted ratings, comments, and status
• Other Reviews — On tracks where the chairs share reviews between reviewers, the other reviewers' submitted reviews appear here once your own review is in, labeled "Reviewer #1", "Reviewer #2", and so on
• AI Review — If the chairs shared the submission's AI-generated review with you, it appears as its own card with an AI disclaimer; it is a supplement, not a human review
• Review History — Previous versions if you've updated your review

You can also reach this page from the Completed tab on Reviews.

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Updating a Review

To revise a submitted review:

1. Open the review from the Reviews → Completed tab, or from the review view page
2. Click "Update Review"
3. Edit any fields you want to change
4. Optionally, add a Revision Note describing what changed — this helps track chairs understand the update
5. Click "Update Review" to save

Each update creates a new version visible in the Review History section.