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Chapter 13 - What Should We Do before Submitting a Manuscript?

from Part V - Strategies of Publishing Journal Articles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2020

Zheng Yan
Zheng Yan
Affiliation:
University at Albany, State University of New York
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Summary

This chapter addresses various issues that authors will have to deal with before manuscripts are submitted. It discusses how students initially thought about pre-submission work, how students and researchers experienced in the real world through three cases, and three major concepts related to what the pre-submission phase means, how to pass the initial editorial screen, and how an online journal management system works. It ends with three practical suggestions, including preparing a mature and well-developed manuscript so that it can pass the desk rejection and enter the peer review process, emailing the journal editor the pre-submission inquiry and checking the fit, and asking good colleagues or even senior faculty members to have a pre-submission review.

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Pre-submissioninitial editorial screeningonline journal management systemsdesk rejectioncitation counts
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Publishing Journal Articles
A Scientific Guide for New Authors Worldwide
 , pp. 145 - 156
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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