2015 Conference

Workshop

Getting Published: Preparing Manuscripts for Journal Submission.

Length:   Half-day, Wednesday

Organizers:

Walter (Tony) Rosenbaum
Tonyros@ufl.edu
 University of Florida

 Kim Smith

ksmith@carleton.edu

Carleton College

This will repeat a workshop first held at the Vermont conference and repeated at the Pittsburgh conference.  It is intended for graduate students and young professional desiring on opportunity prepare articles and have manuscripts reviewed as they would for submission the Journal for Environmental Studies and Sciences, or other professional publication. How the workshop will be organized:

• Each prospective participant will be asked to submit a draft manuscript at least a month to six weeks in advance of the workshop.
• The manuscripts will be reviewed by the workshop organizer(s) and those submissions in satisfactory preparation will each be read by the workshop organizer(s) and at least two other workshop participants (the organizer(s) will divided the manuscripts among the participants. so that each participant will have no more than two articles to review.
• Before the session, the participants will be divided into small groups, each consisting of 2-4 workshop participants and a Journal editor or otherwise qualified reviewer. Each small group participant’s submission will be read by the other group members in advance of the meeting.
• The workshop will consist of several activities
  • a brief explanation of the journal’s editorial policy and the review process;
  • a division into the small working groups were the manuscripts will be reviewed and discussed among the members;
  • a final collective meeting to discuss issues and ideas from the review sessions.

  One purpose of the workshop is to identify and encourage prospective submissions to JESS. Additionally, the workshop should help the participants to anticipate issues commonly associated with journal article reviews and to prepare their manuscripts with greater professional skill.

Confirmed presenters and co-organizers:

•  Walter Rosenbaum, Editor-in-Chief, Journal for Environmental Studies and Sciences

• Kim Smith, Carleton College

•  Several Associate Editors of JESS to be selected.

•  Several members of the JESS Editorial Board to be selected.