Timeline for When/whether to do pre-submission inquiry at high impact journals
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| Sep 24, 2014 at 19:31 | vote | accept | vector07 | ||
| Sep 24, 2014 at 19:31 | comment | added | vector07 | Interesting about them not caring about formatting exactly the first submission. Will take that into consideration. I should add -- PNAS is one journal that does not allow that; on submission, the full manuscript has to be at most a 7 page pdf, no exceptions. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 16:53 | comment | added | Bitwise | @vector07 From my experience (biology journals), in the first round of reviews format is largely ignored by the reviewers and editor. If you are invited to make a revision, the editor then will also tell you to make sure you follow the formatting guidelines. Also, many journals have multiple formats (e.g. Article, Letter, Brief Correspondence) and manuscripts may be directed by the editor into a specific format. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 16:27 | comment | added | vector07 | We agree on the latter point. In my experience, switching journals is rarely as easy as reformatting references. There are wildly different length requirements among journals we apply to. There are also topic considerations.. at a high impact journal, the focus (at least in intro/conclusion) should be on broad implications. At a subject journal, less general background is needed. | |
| Sep 22, 2014 at 20:17 | history | answered | Bitwise | CC BY-SA 3.0 |