A special issue or special project is a collection of articles focused on a specific theme or topic within the journal's broader scope. These issues are typically guest-edited by experts in the field and are designed to highlight recent developments, emerging trends, or significant research areas that are of particular interest to the academic community. 

Creating Special Issue 

To create a special issue, Configure Managers can navigate to Configure > Special projects. Once the project or issue has been created, and you are ready to accept submissions for that project or issue, change the status to 'Open' in the settings.

Allocating submissions to special issue
Manuscripts can only be added to special issues or projects with 'Open' status. 

If you would like to add manuscripts to a project, change status to 'Open'.