Hi @JohnDavid,
There’s a workflow coming in OJS 3.6.0 to do this – see #9295 for some details, and there’s a walk-through of this in our last Dev Leads webinar on Youtube (which I see now isn’t listed, but I’ve pinged out comms folks for that). Meanwhile, I think most journals use the Forthcoming plugin, or make a dummy issue for the purpose.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team