If you have never submitted a paper to JMD, you must first create an account in the ASME online Journal Tool. In the profile that you are creating for yourself, there is a “biography field.” You should place a text entry in that field starting by inserting keywords that most closely express your interests and expertise. (You can add some more bio information as you wish.) The reserved keywords you may use can be found in a pull down menu on the ASME journal tool. These keywords are updated periodically, so you may wish to do the same for your profile. 

Once you have created an account in the system, your name is available for selection by a JMD editor to add to the reviewer database.  

To alert the JMD editors that you are volunteering as a reviewer, you should send an email to the JMD associate editors that most closely relate to your fields of expertise (Editorial Board profiles are found on this site), and express your desire to serve as a reviewer in the areas you consider yourself an expert.  Please copy your email to the Editor-in-Chef (editor@asmejmd.org) and to the journal assistant (assistant@asmejmd.org). 

Please note that JMD reviewers typically hold a PhD in a discipline closely related to engineering design, and they are active researchers in universities, laboratories, or industrial settings in which they maintain familiarity with the state-of-the-art in engineering design research. 

After a JMD editor has added you to the JMD reviewer database, your profile will appear in the reviewers list for selection by any JMD editor.  

At this time, ASME reviewer databases are specific to each journal and JMD reviewers are not transferable to other ASME journals, although you may separately request to be added to other ASME journal reviewer databases as well.