 Now hopefully you're ready to submit your final draft. You're ready to send it to the journal. Be sure only one journal at a time can have your paper. Remember we said in the query you could query several journals. Are they interested in your paper? But only one journal can have your paper. If that journal rejects your paper, then you can send it elsewhere. If you feel the journal is taking too long for the review process, you can write the editor and have your paper withdrawn from the journal. But it is never appropriate to have your paper under review by more than one journal because it's a waste of time to a journal to go through the whole review process if really you're working with a different journal. If your paper is rejected, as I mentioned, you can send to another journal, but I would encourage you to work on that paper before you send to another journal. Try to find out if you can why it was rejected. If it was simply that your topic was not appropriate for your journal, then maybe it's fine to send as is to a different journal. But if your paper really needs work or rewriting or reorganizing, do that work before you send to a second journal.