Submitting the paper

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Submitting the paper
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Ready to submit?

• First, send it out for review among your
  colleagues.
• 1. Members of your lab
• 2. All authors (OF COURSE)
• 3. To a colleague outside of your direct field
• 4. An expert in English

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Get feedback!

• Ask colleagues what is clear/confusing
• Ask people outside your lab

Did my introduction make sense?
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Ready? How do I do it?

• Look at the Instructions for authors
• Submission instructions (website)
• What to include
• Who to send it to
• If hard copies are required, how many copies,
  etc.

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How to submit?

• Journals require
• 1) electronic versions as well as hard copies
  that must be sent by mail
• OR
• 2) electronic submission only online
• Check the instructions to authors

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What to include

• USE A CHECKLIST
• Cover letter
• Hard copy
• Electronic copy
• Signatures from all authors
• Address, email, phone number, and fax for
  corresponding author

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Final copy Title page

• Include title and authors
• Running title (shorter version with a limited
  number of characters)
• Include contact information for the corresponding
  author
• Include affiliation and addresses for each author

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Final copy Abstract

• Include list of key words (3 to 10)
• Example key words malaria, PCR, drug resistance,
  chloroquine, sulfadoxine, pyrimethamine.

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Final copy Figures

• Each on its own separate page
• Do not include the figure title or legend on that
  page
• Just label the figure by its , for example
  Figure 1
• Put the figure legends together on their own
  separate page
• Check size of figure

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Final copy Tables

• Each table on its own separate page
• In footnote, explain all abbreviations
• Check size of table
• Table heading included above the table

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Final copy Text

• Check margins and spacing
• Use spell-check
• Figure out your total words
• -Word count in Microsoft Word
• Check your references
• -Do the references in the text match the
  reference list?

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"The cover letter"Muy importante!

• Helps orient the reader
• States your main point and why it is important
• States that the work is novel and not published
  elsewhere
• Says who will be the corresponding author

Ref K. LaMarco R. Ward
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Cover letter Details

• Identify the journal name
• Suggested reviewers
• Maybe--List of competing scientists you do not
  want to have as reviewers

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Which editor?

• Often there are various editors for a journal
• You can send it to an editor that you know is
  familiar with your work or field of work.

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Go over the checklist

• Go over the checklist one last time
• Look at the example of instructions to
  
• authors in the binder
• Send it off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!