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Top 10 Tips to Publish Your Research Work

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Dr. David Martinsen

Publications Division,

ACS

Esther Ober

Journals Editing

Manager, ACS

Dr. William B. Tolman

Editor-in-Chief, Inorganic

Chemistry, ACS

TOP 10 TIPS TO PUBLISH

YOUR RESEARCH WORK IN

ENGLISH LANGUAGE JOURNALS

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Bill Tolman is a Distinguished McKnight University

Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at

the University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities.

He was Associate Editor (2007-2012) and is now (2013-

present) Editor-in-Chief of the ACS journal Inorganic

Chemistry.

Current research in his group encompasses synthetic

bioinorganic and organometallic/polymer chemistry.

Copyright (c) 2014 American Chemical Society 13

Esther Ober

Esther Ober is the Journals Editing Manager at the

American Chemical Society. She is responsible for the

technical editing and publication for 13 of the 40+ ACS

journals and the production and publication for the ACS

Books Symposium Series.

She has worked in the Journal Publishing Group of the

ACS for 31 years, first as a technical editor and now in

her current role.


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Have you submitted a manuscript to a

scientific journal?

• Yes, and it was accepted.

• Yes, but it was rejected.

• Yes, I have been both accepted/rejected

in the past.

• No, I have never submitted.


Audience Question


The Review Process

1. Author submits via ParagonPlus.

2. Manuscript checked by staff (author emails,

appropriate files included, etc.).

3. Editor-in-Chief assigns handling editor or rejects

with editorial review (without external reviews).

4. Handling editor chooses reviewers and asks for

reviews.

5. Reviews in hand, handling editor makes

decision, and informs corresponding author.

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Tip #1: DO GOOD SCIENCE

Do work of highest technical quality

Address significant problem(s)

Do work that is truly novel

Adhere to highest ethical standards in

performing and reporting the research


Tip #2: CHOOSE A JOURNAL CAREFULLY

Top criteria: suitable audience for work

Proper scope

Journal excellence (manuscript handling,

publication quality, reviewer process,

reputation in field, etc.)

Bottom criteria (last!): impact factor

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Tip #3: READ AND FOLLOW AUTHOR

GUIDELINES

Every ACS journal has author guidelines that are

specific to that journal (and they often differ!)

For best results: follow the guidelines EXACTLY

Author information and guidelines available on

the web. . . .


http://pubs.acs.org/pa

ge/inocaj/submission/i

ndex.html

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http://pubs.acs.org/page/inocaj/submission/authors.html


Tip #4: TELL A STORY

Important to have a main theme and a punchline

Avoid “data dumping”

Introduction should address: What’s the

problem/question? Why is it important? How

have others addressed it? What is your approach

to addressing it? What is significant/novel about

what you have done?

Conclusion: concise statement summarizing key

findings/results and their significance.

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Tip #5: WRITE IT WELL

English language assistance:

Practice! Speak with native english speakers. Read

english language publications for style as well as

content. Listen to recordings of scientific talks.

Send draft to native english speaker/writer

colleague

Use Language Editing Service

http://pubs.acs.org/page/4authors/tools/language_editi

ng.html


http://pubs.acs.org/page/p

ublish-research/episode-

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If someone helped to translate your article

to English, should you list him or her as an

author?

• Yes

• No


Audience Question


Tip #6: DRAW FIGURES WITH CARE

Schemes and Figures matter (A LOT)

Ensure consistent style, proper line widths &

fonts (arial family best), axis labels, appropriate

size. Modify software default settings!

www.mrl.ucsb.edu/~seshadri/PreparingFigures.pdf

Good: Bad:

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Tip #7: FOLLOW ETHICS GUIDELINES

http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/ethics/index.html



-Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research

Plagiarism is not acceptable in ACS journals. ACS journals adhere to the

U.S. National Science Foundation definition of plagiarism as “the

appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words

without giving appropriate credit” (45 Code of Federal Regulations, Section

689.1). Authors should not engage in plagiarism - verbatim or near-

verbatim copying, or very close paraphrasing, of text or results from

another’s work. Authors should not engage in self-plagiarism (also known

as duplicate publication) - unacceptably close replication of the author’s

own previously published text or results without acknowledgement of the

source. ACS applies a “reasonable person” standard when deciding

whether a submission constitutes self-plagiarism/duplicate publication. If

one or two identical sentences previously published by an author appear in

a subsequent work by the same author, this is unlikely to be regarded as

duplicate publication. Material quoted verbatim from the author’s previously

published work must be placed in quotation marks. In contrast, it is

unacceptable for an author to include significant verbatim or near-verbatim

portions of his/her own work, or to depict his/her previously published

results or methodology as new, without acknowledging the source.

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-Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research

Plagiarism is not acceptable in ACS journals. ACS journals adhere to the

U.S. National Science Foundation definition of plagiarism as “the

appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words

without giving appropriate credit” (45 Code of Federal Regulations, Section

689.1). Authors should not engage in plagiarism - verbatim or near-

verbatim copying, or very close paraphrasing, of text or results from

another’s work. Authors should not engage in self-plagiarism (also known

as duplicate publication) - unacceptably close replication of the author’s

own previously published text or results without acknowledgement of the

source. ACS applies a “reasonable person” standard when deciding

whether a submission constitutes self-plagiarism/duplicate publication. If

one or two identical sentences previously published by an author appear in

a subsequent work by the same author, this is unlikely to be regarded as

duplicate publication. Material quoted verbatim from the author’s previously

published work must be placed in quotation marks. In contrast, it is

unacceptable for an author to include significant verbatim or near-verbatim

portions of his/her own work, or to depict his/her previously published

results or methodology as new, without acknowledging the source.

Audience Question

Is it plagiarism if you use the same

experimental method as one of your

previously published papers, and just copy

the methods section?

• Yes

• No


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Tip #8: SUBMIT CAREFULLY

Make sure correct files are uploaded

Carefully input all author email addresses and

contact information

Check to make sure edits/comments do not appear

Write cover letter carefully; provide brief reason

why work is novel/significant and will appeal to

journal readership

Recommend reviewers carefully; provide reason(s)

if asking for certain people to not be chosen as

reviewers


Tip #9: RESPOND TO DECISION

APPROPRIATELY

Hesitate before hitting “send” on an email

Write carefully; provide detailed point-by-point

responses to all reviewer comments

Editors decisions may be appealed; carefully

reasoned argument necessary!

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Tip #10: CORRECT GALLEYS

CAREFULLY AND QUICKLY

Gather input from ALL authors before responding

with corrections.

Address all author queries included with the galley.

Avoid rewriting/rephrasing: alterations should be

restricted to serious changes in interpretation or

corrections of data.

Extensive/important changes are subject to

Editorial review.


The Technical Editing Process

1. Accepted paper is forwarded to Production

office.

2. File and graphics are prepared for the editing

process.

3. File is edited for grammar, punctuation, spelling,

and overall consistency and readability.

4. All technical editors have a chemistry degree or

a degree in a related field.

5. Author queries are added during the editing

process as needed.

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Additional Resources

Author and Reviewer Resource Center

http://pubs.acs.org/page/4authors/index.html

ACS Video Series

http://pubs.acs.org/page/publish-research/index.html





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Dr. David Martinsen


ACS

Esther Ober

Journals Editing

Manager, ACS



Chemistry, ACS


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