ORCID is a free service that acts as a centralized public record of your academic contributions across disciplines. Signup is easy—it takes less than one minute—and will help you to gain recognition for your activities as an author and a reviewer, and helps us track your rewards points. Register here and check out the extensive ORCID support pages for any questions that arise along the way. 

Follow these simple steps to remove a duplicated ORCID record, and then be sure to add your correct, singular ORCID on ScholarOne/Manuscript Central and in your membership dashboard.

ADSA loyalty points should be redeemed upon acceptance of your article.

1. Once you’ve received your acceptance, simply head to your loyalty points dashboard and click “redeem points.”
   
   
2. Complete your points redemption by:
   1. Indicating the points are being applied to a Journal of Dairy Science article, and
   2. Select the type of reward you’re opting for—whether 25%, 50%, or 100% off your paper charge depending on how many points you have, or would like to use in your points balance, and
   3. Add the paper details including paper ID #, title, and your name as the corresponding author.
   4. Once submitted, you’ll receive your unique discount code that can be applied to your invoice—it will populate on the screen, be added to your loyalty transcript in your member dashboard, and be sent to you via email.
   
   
   
3. Save your discount code and apply it to your Elsevier invoice via the “discount code” field. Lost track of your discount code? No problem! Your discount code will always be available to you via the transcript in your member dashboard. 

ADSA loyalty points should be redeemed upon acceptance of your article.

1. Once you’ve received your acceptance, simply head to your loyalty program in your member dashboard and click “redeem points.”
   
   
2. Complete your points redemption by
   1. Indicating the points are being applied to a JDS Communications article, and
   2. Select the type of reward you’re opting for—whether 25%, 50%, or 100% off your paper charge depending on how many points you have, or would like to use in your points balance, and
   3. Add the paper details including paper ID #, title, and your name as the corresponding author.
   4. Once submitted, you’ll receive a confirmation message that your discount is being applied to your designated manuscript invoice.
3. Your discount will be applied to your invoice before it is emailed to you. Once received, you can complete your invoice payment as normal. Want to double check the discount applied was correct before payment? No problem! Your discount information will be listed clearly in your invoice and will always be available to you via the transcript in your member dashboard.
   
   

The ADSA Loyalty Program is a program designed to reward member contributors to ADSA’s ecosystem of journals, the Journal of Dairy Science (JDS) and JDS Communications (JDSC). The reward is the opportunity to publish original articles at no charge or at a reduced charge. Points are earned by either contributing papers as a corresponding author or reviewing articles for JDS or JDSC.

The program will be enacted January 1, 2024.

Authors and reviewers accrue points by contributing to either the Journal of Dairy Science or JDS Communications. Authors can earn 40 points for every accepted article they submit as the corresponding author, while reviewers can earn 10 points for every review they submit on time.

Points can be redeemed as follows:

Corresponding authors and reviewers with a current ADSA membership and a valid ORCID that is linked both to their ScholarOne/Manuscript Central and ADSA membership profiles. For help linking an ORCID to ScholarOne/Manuscript Central or your ADSA membership profile, please contact loyalty@adsa.org.

All current members of ADSA who have an ORCID number are eligible to earn points for this program. Researchers must be current ADSA members to accrue and redeem points.

Yes, the ORCIDs act as a unique identifier, so we can track member points for both authors and reviewers. Members will need to provide their ORCID in ScholarOne/Manuscript Central when submitting an article or review, and their ORCID must also be linked to their member profile. Check to see if your ORCID is associated with your member profile in your ADSA membership dashboard starting January 1, 2024.

Participant points accruals and expirations are updated quarterly, and the first batch of points will be posted April 1, 2024. You can track your points through your member dashboard, by navigating to “My Benefits” and then “ADSA Loyalty Program.”

Once an article you have written as corresponding author is accepted, you can redeem your points through your loyalty points dashboard.

At this time, the process for JDS and JDSC redemption are slightly different, because Elsevier handles the invoicing for JDS, while the JDSC invoicing is conducted by the association. For both journals, you will be prompted to enter the details of your accepted “reward article” (including paper ID #, title, and your name as the corresponding author), and from there you can follow instructions to apply your points to your reward paper.

For JDS papers, once you have entered your paper details, you’ll then receive a unique discount code that can be applied to your invoice—it will populate on the screen, be added to your loyalty transcript in your member dashboard, and be sent to you via email.

Save your discount code and apply it to your Elsevier invoice via the “discount code” field. Don’t worry if you’ve lost track of your discount code—it will always be available to you via the transcript in your member dashboard.

For JDSC papers, once you have entered your paper details, you will see a confirmation message that your discount is being applied to your designated manuscript invoice. This invoice will be emailed to you. Once received, you can complete your invoice payment, if any, as normal. If you’d like to double check the discount applied was correct before payment, your discount information will be listed clearly in your invoice and will always be available to you via the transcript in your member dashboard.

Points are valid from the date an article is accepted or an on-time review is submitted. Members have up to four years to redeem their points.

No. It’s possible to redeem a portion of your points on one article while retaining a “balance” in your account.

No. Members can earn points writing or reviewing for either JDS or JDSC or both. Points can then be redeemed in either journal.

The corresponding author is the only person who can receive points for each submission. Points are granted only to the corresponding author designated in ScholarOne/Manuscript Central during the time of submission.

Yes, the paper must be submitted by the corresponding author who is using the points they have accrued.

No. Only the corresponding author of an article can claim the loyalty points. 

Neither points nor rewards can be transferred to another author or reviewer.

Only on-time reviews will count toward point accruals. A review is considered on-time if it is submitted within 14 days of accepting the invitation to review.

Yes. You can opt out via the ScholarOne/Manuscript Central platform when submitting your review or article.

You can contact loyalty@adsa.org with any questions about the program.