Once you contribute to a journal, usually, your paper will go through the following steps:
1. Preliminary review draft:
After the paper is submitted, the editor or assistant editor will make a preliminary review of your manuscript to check whether your paper meets the publication scope and standards of the journal. If your paper does not meet the requirements, it may be returned or asked for revision.
2. Invited by reviewers:
If your manuscript passes the preliminary examination, the editor will begin to invite experts and scholars in related fields as reviewers to review your paper.
3. Summary of the paper:
The reviewers carefully read, evaluate and annotate your paper according to the evaluation criteria of the journal, and give corresponding evaluation opinions and suggestions, so as to determine whether your paper meets the publication criteria.
4. Edit decision:
After receiving the reviewer's comments, the editor will make an in-depth evaluation of the reviewer's feedback, and decide whether your paper is accepted, rejected or required to be further revised according to the journal policy and publishing standards.
5. Reply to the author:
If your paper is accepted, the editor will contact you to inform you of the requirements for determining the publication date of the journal and the revision and format of the paper. If your paper is not accepted, the editor will contact you and tell you the reason for rejection and whether it is allowed to be revised and resubmitted according to the feedback.
Generally speaking, it takes a series of complicated processes to contribute to journals and get published, which is to ensure the accuracy, reliability and repeatability of scientific research work.
As follows:
Every newspaper and magazine has its own specific policy and purpose (periodical) and its own readers. Before submitting a manuscript, we must first understand it, find out its publishing cycle, and choose a suitable publishing house or cooperative publishing unit.
Pay attention to control the time. There is a time limit for the publication of the paper, which requires a certain amount of time. How early is the paper submitted? Different publishers have different regulations, which need to be understood in detail in advance.