More worryingly, about one out of every 1000 of
the submitting authors copied the equivalent of a paragraph's worth of text from other people's papers without citing them.
Not exact matches
Copies of any papers by any subset of the
authors that are related to the
submitted manuscript and are under consideration or in press at other journals must be included with the submission of the original and / or revised version of the paper.
The paper's corresponding
author, Karim Nayernia, told ScienceInsider that the
copied text was part of an old version of the paper, which the first
author, a postdoc named Jae Ho Lee, mistakenly
submitted.
Prospective
authors should
submit an electronic
copy of their complete manuscript through the SpringerOpen submission system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/epjq/default.aspx according to the submission schedule.
After the
author revises the manuscript and the second manuscript is
submitted, the editor line - edits, or
copy edits, the work.
The
author (in most categories) must be an American citizen, the book must be available for sale in print, it must have first been published that year, and the person
submitting the book has to send four
copies of the book and a... [Read more...]
Do you recommend that
authors have their manuscripts professionally edited before
submitting, or is content and
copy editing part of your normal process?
Authors submit a 50,000 + word book to Scout, with cover
copy, logline, bio, etc..
The
author (in most categories) must be an American citizen, the book must be available for sale in print, it must have first been published that year, and the person
submitting the book has to send four
copies of the book and a fifty dollar entry fee.
It is very apparent that a very tiny population of ACX users are potentially abusing the program, where they sign up as an «
author» and then
submit recordings of their «books», and in exchange are given a bunch of vouchers they can use to gift people
copies of their book for free for review purposes.
Both print and ebooks are accepted, but ebook
authors must
submit print
copies.
Leaving Home, a 43 - page story by Jodi Picoult, the well - known
author with 14 million
copies of her previous books in print,
submitted to Kindle Singles by Picoult's agent Laura Gross Literary Agency and reported among the top 20 bestsellers of all Kindle Books.
If an
author isn't smart enough to read over their own work before
submitting their final
copy, then whose fault is that?
In conclusion, I'd have to say that the biggest error
authors make in
submitting their manuscripts is not to have them
copy edited.
This is a «safety net» idea I came up with so that we could provide some modicum of value to
authors or publishers who made an investment in
submitting a
copy of their book to us.
After the manuscript has been edited, and the
author has made the corrections they felt best served the book, we strongly encourage all of our
authors to have their final manuscript proofread before
submitting it to a market or self - publishing it - preferably by someone who has not previously read the book (or who hasn't seen a
copy of the manuscript in a while).
I would
submit that trad publishing could do worse than adopt the Baen Free Library concept for ebooks and to allow bookstores to «remainder» midlist
authors for one or two
copies to local libraries.
An indie
author submitted his series for publication, but he was already self - published, with excellent reviews and a decent fanship, but lousy covers and lackluster
copy.
When you
submit information about your book we will take it and turn it into professional, marketable material that will appear on your back cover
copy, hardcover dust jacket flaps (if applicable),
author bio, and any other areas you would like it to appear.
And, as a first - time novelist, I've already taken Anne's advice and started an
author website and blog (https://kathleenjones.org/) First - time novelists who are serious about publishing their work should probably consider hiring substantive and
copy editors to polish it before
submitting their manuscripts.
The three best abstracts are identified by the committee and the
authors are asked to
submit full
copies of their dissertations.
For any extensive quotation (more than 500 words) used in the manuscript,
authors must obtain a letter of permission for its use and
submit a
copy of that letter with the manuscript.