ABSTRACT

Now in its second edition, this internationally 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, the first book to address the subject, Abby Day explains how to overcome these obstacles and create publishable papers for journals most likely to publish them. She shows how to identify a suitable journal and how to plan, prepare and compile a paper that will satisfy its requirements. She pays particular attention to the creative aspects of the process. As an experienced journal editor and publisher, Dr Day is well placed to reveal the inside workings of the reviewing procedure - and the more fully you understand this, the greater the chance that what you submit will be accepted and published. For academic and research staff, in whatever discipline, a careful study of Dr Day's book could be your first step on the road to publication.

part |2 pages

Part I Setting Your Objectives

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|8 pages

Why publish?

chapter 3|8 pages

Why not publish?

chapter 4|8 pages

A sense of purpose

chapter 5|10 pages

So what?

chapter 6|8 pages

Making sense of the literature

part |2 pages

Part II Knowing Your Audience

chapter 7|8 pages

Who are the editors and reviewers?

chapter 8|8 pages

Through the reader’s eyes

chapter 9|10 pages

Targeting journals

part |2 pages

Part III From Draft to Print

chapter 10|10 pages

Seven days to a finished paper

chapter 11|10 pages

Writing the draft

chapter 12|12 pages

Points of style

chapter 13|8 pages

Managing the process

chapter 14|12 pages

Keeping it going