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Now in its second edition, this international best-selling book has been revised and updated. It focuses on helping people overcome some of the most common obstacles to successful publication. Lack of time? An unconscious fear of rejection? Conflicting priorities? In this book Abby Day explains how to overcome these obstacles and create publishable papers for journals most likely to publish them.
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How to Get Research Published in Journals The book is dedicated with love and thanks to the four people who have taught me the most important things in my life: my parents, Gwen and Stockwell Day and my children, Jake and Alex. How to Get Research Published in Journals Second Edition ABBY DAY © Abby Day 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Gower Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England Gower Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington VT 05401-4405 USA Abby Day has asserted her moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Peters, Abby Day, 1956How to get research published in journals. - New ed. 1. Academic writing - Publishing I. Title 808'.066 ISBN-13: 9780566088155 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peters, Abby Day, 1956How to get research published in journals / by Abby Day. -- 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-566-08815-5 ISBN-10: 0-566-08815-0 1. Authorship--Marketing. 2. Report writing. 3. Research. I. Title. PN161.D39 2007 070.5'2--dc22 2007027823 Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ Internation Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall. Contents Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface vii ix xi Part I Setting Your Objectives 1 Chapter 1 Introduction 3 Chapter 2 Why publish? 11 Chapter 3 Why not publish? 19 Chapter 4 A sense of purpose 27 Chapter 5 So what? 35 Chapter 6 Making sense of the literature 45 Part II Knowing Your Audience 53 Chapter 7 Who are the editors and reviewers? 55 Chapter 8 Through the reader’s eyes 63 Chapter 9 Targeting journals 71 Part III From Draft to Print Chapter 10 Seven days to a finished paper 83 Chapter 11 Writing the draft 93 Chapter 12 Points of style 103 Chapter 13 Managing the process 115 Chapter 14 Keeping it going 123 References Index 81 135 137 v This page intentionally left blank List of Figures List of Figures Figure 5.1 Issue and problem 39 Figure 9.1 RAE quality criteria 77 Figure 11.1 AIDA pyramid 97 Figure 14. 1 Success through relationship publishing 124 vii This page intentionally left blank M any people have been generous with their time in helping this book through its first and second editions. My thanks to the many anonymized sources in this book for taking the time to reflect on my questions about writing, editing and reviewing. I have greatly benefited from the ideas, questions, suggestions and experiences shar