{"id":1650,"date":"2013-11-11T10:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T10:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/what-editors-want-advice-on-winning-the-publishing-game\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:34:40","slug":"what-editors-want-advice-on-winning-the-publishing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/what-editors-want-advice-on-winning-the-publishing-game","title":{"rendered":"What Editors Want: advice on winning the publishing game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Few books come this close to providing sound advice on the intricacies of the publishing game as<em>\u00a0What Editors Want: an author\u2019<\/em><em>s guide to scientific journal publishing<\/em>\u00a0[1]. (The title of the chapter on preparing a manuscript for publication includes the phrase \u2018What editors wish you knew\u2019.) The first chapter makes it clear who the book is for and why they should read it: \u2018many young researchers have almost no idea of what obstacles they\u2019ll encounter, and how to get to the finish line\u2014a published paper\u2014as quickly and painlessly as possible. The aim of this book is to address the needs of these novice authors.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The authors make it clear early on that their book is not about writing research papers but about getting published. Accordingly, the book begins by assuming that researchers have completed their research and have analysed the results and that the findings are new and valid, and takes it up from there. The early chapters tell readers how to judge whether their research is new and how to choose the right journal.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">An innovative feature of the book are mini essays by other \u2018officials in the publishing game\u2019: journal editors, publishers and publication managers, librarians, media experts, and so on. You can read what the Executive Editor of<em>\u00a0Science<\/em>, for example, has to say on honesty in authorship and that of\u00a0<em>PNAS (Proceedings of the [US] National Academy of Sciences<\/em>\u00a0on ethics in scientific publishing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The book will prove particularly useful to non-native speakers of English since it is based on the workshop the authors gave in mainland China. Several useful appendixes point readers to additional resources, up to date and carefully chosen, on advice on writing, databases that offer free access to articles and abstracts, free or low-cost sources of images, and so on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">All in all, a welcome addition indeed to the already impressive series titled Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">[1] Benson P J and Silver S C. 2013.<em>\u00a0What Editors Want: an author\u2019s guide to scientific journal publishing<\/em>. University of Chicago Press. 178 pp. [The year given in citations and references is the year that appears in the copyright notice; the book under review has already been published.]\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few books come this close to providing sound advice on the intricacies of the publishing game as\u00a0What Editors Want: an author\u2019s guide to scientific journal publishing\u00a0[1]. (The title of the chapter on preparing a manuscript for publication includes the phrase \u2018What editors wish you knew\u2019.) 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