Tailoring Your Scientific or Academic Article for a Scholarly Journal
The best strategy for earning publication in one of those top-tier academic or scientific journals is to conduct innovative research within the journal’s area of specialisation, achieve meaningful results and report them accurately and insightfully for the readers who will make the best use of your work. However, even such a challenging combination of elements can be enhanced by ensuring that the manuscript you submit to the acquisitions editor is carefully tailored to suit the journal’s needs in every detail and to appeal to both that editor and the journal’s readers. I have gathered four online resources here that outline strategies for giving your scholarly paper that custom fit.
Among the many sound strategies for successfully publishing your paper in a scholarly journal are writing in formal prose with an effective structure, using any terminology specific to your discipline with care, aiming for clear and precise communication, and avoiding errors and ambiguities. This post also focuses on the need to follow the journal’s guidelines or author instructions and explores the benefits of consulting articles already published by the journal when formatting your paper and finalising citations.
The guidelines or author instructions provided by scientific and academic journals may not seem terribly important as you are working to wrestle your research into words and sentences. As this resource argues, however, every detail noted in such guidelines must be attended to in relation to your manuscript, even when those details are not as clear as might be desirable. Length requirements, titles and headings, special fonts, tables and figures, documentation styles and more are discussed.
As the first of the resources I list here suggests, citing articles already published by a scholarly journal is an excellent means of tailoring your paper to fit that journal. This resource discusses intra-journal citations in greater detail, emphasising how beneficial they can be for your paper, the journal, its readers and the kind of debates that lead to the advancement of knowledge in a field. Such citations, however, must always be used with intellectual integrity.
With your paper custom tailored to fit the journal of your choice perfectly, a final proofread is advisable, and it will prove most productive if your eyes are focussed on certain elements of your manuscript. This post lists ten separate aspects of scientific and academic articles that often require an extra check due to the complexity of either the material or the journal guidelines for presenting it. It is an invaluable tool for scholars rushing to complete a manuscript submission.
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