Submission a paper to a journal for publishing

 

 

 

 

 

Submission a paper to a journal for publishing

The authors can submit their works to selected a journal by following the journal submission guidelines. And to make the article just in the desired style and formatting (some journals have document templates setting out title and subtitle conventions, paragraph style, and font size and style) and the submission process.

The editors of the journal usually are dependent academic experts in the field who may be a researcher or teacher within a university.

However, the editors usually consider some various factors, including but not limited to:

– Originality of the ideas,

– Significance of the ideas,

– Quality of the writing.

The followings are the general steps about how an author can publish an article in an online journal. As online journals are becoming more dominant nowadays for academic work.

– Choosing a journal and online services.

– Choose a journal in the suitable subject area, then check out its description on the journal page.

– Then, sign up and log in as an author on the journal website, and follow the instructions to submit the manuscript to the journal, proceed to the publishing portal (if it exist).

 

– Checking out guidelines for manuscript preparation and filling in the copyright.

– The author should completely follow the guidelines for manuscript preparation and submission, and make the article just as the journal editor wants.

– Then, the author should download a copyright transfer agreement then fill it and collect the signatures of all co-authors. If the editor rejects the manuscript, then, the agreements will not come into force.

 

– Manuscript preparation and submission.

– Again, the author should check out technical requirements in the manuscript preparation guidelines, and submission, then submit, and wait for a reply from the editorial board.

 

– Manuscript acceptance or acceptance with revision, or rejection.

However, there are few probabilities of responses from the journal:

-Acceptance without amendment: Well done, no problem then.

– Acceptance with revisions: In this case, the editor may ask to improve the article. And the author should follow the editor’s instruction and notes carefully and resubmit, again, then send a short statement explaining or summarizing the changes that he has made.

– Rejection: In this case, the author should learn from that experience, and try with another journal.

– Publishing house confirmation, working with a galley proof, and receipt of a published article in electronic form.

The author will get an e-mail message with an approximate date that the galley proof will be sent to the authors. All necessary instructions will be attached to the e-mail message, including the receipt of a published article in electronic form, like in PDF format

Note, in this stage, the author can not make any changes in the article except the critical errors, like the errors that may occur in the author’s name or scientific data.

 

 

 

 

The importance of article publishing in the relevant Journals

The author needs to find a suitable journal to publish his article in it. But. Unfortunately, there are many fake journals and publishers ( called a predatory journal or publisher), waiting to exploit your talents.

So, the author to check will to see if the journal is fake or not, and the author should consider the reputation of the journals, like if the journal allow open access sources or not, or if the journal is indexed in the Web of Science (ISI) or not.

In-spite submission in multiple journals can be helpful, but author should not submit a manuscript more than one journal at the same time, as this action is against ethics in publishing.

Also, submission to an unsuitable journal will result in rejection, So, the author should save his time and editor’s time and choose the suitable or to most relevant journal at first.

As, in open access sources, all the visitors can free access to the research articles. This strategy begets more popularity and citations. like if a journal is indexed in the Web of Science (ISI) is used to be called an ISI journal, or indexed in SCOPUS, so it will be called SCOPUS journal. However, the highest quality peer-reviewed publications are in ISI or/and Scopus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 8 questions

Q1. A…………… is a survey of scholarly sources (such as books, journal articles, and theses) related to a specific topic or research question, in order to situate your work in relation to existing knowledge.

1. literature review
2. meta analysis
3. systematic review
4. clinical trial

A1= A. literature review

 

Q2. The ……..provides a short summary or description of the article.

1. Introduction
2. Discussion
3. Abstract
4. Title

A2= C. Abstract

 

Q3. In the introduction section of the article, we can read:

1. Statement of the problem
2. Result summary
3. Recommendations of the study
4. None of the above are true

A3= A. Statement of the problem

Q4. A type of abstracts which can be used, like:

1. Ordinal
2. Informative
3. Ratio
4. Logical

A4= B. Informative

 

Q5. In the ………. section, in the article, we can compare your results to previous studies, published values or expected findings.

1. Introduction
2. Results
3. Abstract
4. Discussion

A5= D. Discussion

Q6. In the ………. section, in the article, we can briefly acknowledge limitations in the work.

1. Introduction
2. Conclusion
3. Abstract
4. Discussion

A6= B. Conclusion

Q7. The highest quality peer-reviewed publications are indexed in:

1. The local universities
2. Web of Science (ISI)
3. SCOPUS
4. Both B and C are true

A7= D. Both B and C are true

 

Q8. A………is a concise and coherent summary of your proposed research.

It sets out the central issues or questions that you intend to address.

1. Research Article
2. Clinical trial
3. Research proposal
4. Literature review

A8=C. Research proposal

 

Q9. A………presents the details of real patient cases from medical or clinical practice.

1. Research Article
2. Clinical case study
3. Research proposal
4. Literature review

A9= B. Clinical case study

 

Q.10 The instructions which should be followed by the author of the research to submit the research into a scientific journal, called……

1. Committee guidelines
2. Author guide lines
3. Journal formula
4. None of the above

A10= B. Author guidelines