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Journals and Manuscript SubmissionsSlide2
Overview
Finding
the right journal and the
MLA Directory of
Periodicals
How to write a cover letter for a journal submission
Where
to find calls for special
issues
What
editors are looking for
Readers
' reports: types of forms, types of
responses
How
to respond to a "revise and
resubmit”
Electronic
submissions, bibliographic database software, and other technical mattersSlide3
How do you find the right journal?
What journals are cited in the articles you read?
What journals seem a good fit if you read them regularly?
MLA Directory of Periodicals
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/flatbrowse?sid=7aa79d47-6a3d-4855-a43e-4152ed10fbc8%40sessionmgr11&vid=2&hid=19
AAUP Directory
(for books)Slide4
Cover Letters
Address the editor.
Mention your title.
Write a sentence or two explaining the subject matter (and implicitly saying why it’s a good fit for the journal).
Provide contact information.
Thank the editor.Slide5
Where to find Calls for Papers and Special Issues
The U Penn list:
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/
Specialized
listservs
: VICTORIA, H-
Amstdy
, etc.
Specialized websites:
HASTAC:
http://hastac.org/
SSAWW:
http://www.ssaww.org
Modernist Studies:
http://msa.press.jhu.edu/
Twitter and
FacebookSlide6
What do Editors Want to See in a Manuscript?
Get to the point.
Make a clear argument.
Show familiarity with previous work.
Describe how your work differs from that of other critics.
Good readings of the works but not JUST readings of the works.
Good writing style and organization.
Don’t double-submit. No
simultaneous submissions.Slide7
The Editor’s Choices
Decides that the piece is within the scope of the journal, makes an original argument, and is solid enough to interest the journal’s readers -
send out to readers
Decides that the piece is out of the scope of the journal’s mission, underdeveloped, simply a close reading, or not sufficiently original -
send it back without sending it to readers
At some journals, only 2/5 get sent out to reviewers.Slide8
Readers’ Reports
What they see (forms). They do NOT see your name; you will be evaluated anonymously.
Editor will send it to a knowledgeable and sympathetic reviewer.
More journals are moving to online submissions and review. Example:
Modernism/Modernity
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/
modernismSlide9
What will the editor’s letter and your readers’ reports tell you?
It’s accepted. Hooray! It may still need minor corrections.
It’s provisionally accepted but the readers may want you to address certain points.
It receives a revise and resubmit. (See next slide)
It’s rejected. Typical reasons:
Essay doesn’t fit the scope of the journal.
Journal has already published something on the subject recently.
Essay doesn’t make a sufficient contribution to the field.
Essay doesn’t engage sufficiently with the critical discourse surrounding the topic. Slide10
“Revise and Resubmit”
A “revise and resubmit” response is very common.
Read the reviewers’ comments carefully and the editor’s contextualization of those comments.
Revise with those guidelines in mind.
Send the revision back with a narrative or letter outlining how you responded.
“Revise and Resubmit” is a positive
sign.Slide11
Submissions
Via email (as at
ESQ
)
http://libarts.wsu.edu/english/Journals/ESQ/manuscript.html
Via central portal:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/exp
http://www.editorialmanager.com/al/
By postal mail:
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/alr/alrsubmissions.htmlSlide12
Bibliographic Software
Research citation (reference manager) software.
Research
citation software isn't social networking or a communications technology, but it can make the process of sharing research citations easier for researchers collaborating on a project.
Most of these programs can format your references and generate a bibliography automatically.
If you're in a research field and haven't tried a reference manager yet, I encourage you to look into them; they will save you time.
Scientific journals will sometimes accept a reference library in one of these forms, but humanities journals won’t. Slide13
Citation Managers
Endnote
and Endnote Web. Endnote can download citations and format them. It's a stand-alone product, meaning that you don't need to be online to use it. It's a powerful program, but it isn't free. WSU has a
subscription to Endnote Web
,
Sente
is like Endnote, but for Mac/
iPad
.
CiteULike.
CiteULike
is a free medium for sharing references.
BibTex
and
LaTEX
.
BibTeX
is used in conjunction with the
LaTEX
document formatting system; it requires more knowledge of formatting codes than the others. Slide14
Citation Managers, continued
Zotero.
Zotero
is a free, web-based citation and notes manager. This
page at MIT
will show you some of what it can do; here's a page comparing various forms:
http://libguides.mit.edu/references.
Mendeley
.
Mendeley
is free (like
Zotero
) and is optimized for sharing resources.
See
this article
at
The Chronicle of Higher Education
by Julie
Meloni
, a WSU
grad
,
or this one:
http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=55486&sid=
427307
RefWorks
.
RefWorks
is another web-based citation software package. Slide15
Questions?