The Submission Process: Dos and Donts

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The Submission Process Dos and Donts

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• Kathleen Berecek, Ph.D.    Univ. of Alabama at
  Birmingham
• 2001 Women in Physiology/Pharmacology Workshop

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Submission Process

• 1) read and follow Instructions For Authors
  provided by the journal
• 2) provide everything requested by the journal
  at the time of submission

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Submission Process

• a) manuscript submission fee (processing fee)
• b) number of copies of paper and figures/tables
  requested
• c) Mandatory Submission Form (AJP) / Authorship
  Responsibility Financial Disclosure and Copy
  Right Transfer Form (JPET)
• d) Conflict of Interest Form

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Submission Process

• 3) follow instructions and guidelines and meet
  all requirements demanded by the journal for
  organization of the manuscript, citations of
  references, presentation and form of
  illustrations and tables, mathematical equations
  and modeling
• a) observe word and/or page limitations for
  title, abstract, sections of the paper and
  references imposed by the journal
• b) utilize accepted and standard
  abbreviations or include in the manuscript a
  list of new or special abbreviations with
  spelled out form or definitions

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Submission Process

• 4) resolve authorship issues prior to submission
• a) mandatory submission form/ authorship
  responsibility form is a legal contract
• b) each author signing the document assumes
  responsibility for the originality and integrity
  of the information contained in the paper

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Submission Process

• 5) resolve pre-publication of data issues prior
  to submission of the paper
• a) pre-publication of data in the form of
  figures and tables in abstracts longer than
  400 words, proceedings volumes, widely
  circulated internal reports, book chapters and
  electronic media is considered duplicate
  publication

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Submission Process

• 6) carefully edit the paper
• a) for accuracy
• b) for spelling and grammatical construction
• c) that all figures and tables referred to in
  the paper are submitted and correctly and
  clearly labeled
• d) ask other colleagues to read your paper
  prior to submission