Steps in Getting Published



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Steps in Getting Published

  • Steps in Getting Published

    • Decide on a topic
    • Choose a journal
    • Prepare the manuscript
    • Submit manuscript for review
    • Revise following feedback
  • The Editorial Process

  • Considerations for Students



If you can talk, you can write (you just need something to say)

  • If you can talk, you can write (you just need something to say)

  • You can do it!



    • Relevance of topic/research method
    • Type of audience
    • Editorial board composition
    • Review process
    • Length and style requirements
    • Average time to process manuscripts


Check “author guidelines”

  • Check “author guidelines”

    • Font; Spelling (Canadian vs. American); length; etc.
  • Structure the paper

    • Definitions; logical presentation of ideas
  • Professional presentation

  • APA style - Perfect!

  • Seek out a mentor

  • Proof read manuscript



Choice of co-author(s)

  • Choice of co-author(s)

  • First vs. second authorship

  • Agreement re: subsequent use of article content



Review submission instructions

  • Review submission instructions

    • Method of submission
    • Nearly every journal now requires on-line submission
  • Submit to one journal at a time



If your manuscript is rejected, you need to consider another journal.

  • If your manuscript is rejected, you need to consider another journal.

  • Maintain a positive relationship with the Journal.



If it needs revision (the most typical outcome), revise where this will enhance the paper and explain if you did not heed certain requests.

  • If it needs revision (the most typical outcome), revise where this will enhance the paper and explain if you did not heed certain requests.

  • Let the editor know where the changes were made.



Process can take many months

  • Process can take many months

    • Depends on topic, availability of reviewers, time of the year
  • Initial review of manuscript by Editor:

    • Reject outright
    • Sent for 2 -3 blind reviews
  • Reviewers are chosen based on

    • Interests/Areas of specialization
    • Preferred research methodology


Reviewers complete

  • Reviewers complete

  • Reviews are considered by Editor

    • Accept
    • Revise (with deadline)
    • Reject


Editors need:

  • Editors need:

    • Authors
    • Reviewers
  • Must listen to reviewers

  • Change in editorship of Journal likely means change in focus



Who owns copyright?

  • Who owns copyright?

  • Once accepted date of publication is usually provided

  • Authors can get copies of their article from the Journal webpage



Becoming more common

  • Becoming more common

  • Are considered scholarly and high quality

  • Manuscript submission, reviewing and publishing are all conducted through Internet

  • Allow for easier inclusion of pictures, sound, video, raw data, etc.

  • Manuscript length is not critical



CJCP became only on-line in January 2010.

  • CJCP became only on-line in January 2010.



Acknowledge others appropriately

  • Acknowledge others appropriately

  • Informed consent re: research reports

  • Recognition of study sponsors

  • Age of data

  • Multiple articles on same study



Published articles are of interest to

  • Published articles are of interest to

    • Counsellor Educators
    • Counselling Practitioners
    • Field of counselling
  • Published quarterly by Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association

    • January, April, July, and October
  • Distributed to over 4,000 inds.& orgs.



Research reports of relevance to counselling

  • Research reports of relevance to counselling

  • Description of new techniques or innovative programs or practices

  • Discussion of current scientific issues

  • Professional issues or the role of CCPA in society



Critical summaries of published research and/or current issues related to counselling practice

  • Critical summaries of published research and/or current issues related to counselling practice

  • Brief rebuttals or commentaries

  • Papers appropriate for Special Issues



Online manuscript submission

  • Online manuscript submission

    • http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/
      • Register as a user to obtain username and password
      • Click on “submit” and follow instructions
  • APA Publication manual, 6th Ed.

  • Length of French and English articles

    • Full length 25 pages
    • Fieldwork 14 pages
    • Brief Reports 10 pages


Require French and English Titles and Abstracts

  • Require French and English Titles and Abstracts

  • On-line submission required



Special issue proposals are submitted to Editor by potential Guest Editor(s)

  • Special issue proposals are submitted to Editor by potential Guest Editor(s)

  • Can be French and/or English

  • If approved, Guest Editor(s) prepare “Call for Papers”

  • Guest Editor(s) manage review process



Writers write because they must, not because someone else (even their supervisor) tells them to . . . The wish to see your work in print must come from you, in the first instance. Writing for publication is hard work, it takes patience, persistence, and humility.

  • Writers write because they must, not because someone else (even their supervisor) tells them to . . . The wish to see your work in print must come from you, in the first instance. Writing for publication is hard work, it takes patience, persistence, and humility.

  • H. Crago



Inadequate lit review (too

  • Inadequate lit review (too

  • much/little)

  • Unclear introduction or description

  • of the topic

  • Inadequate description of

  • methodology

  • Discussion section that goes

  • beyond or is not connected to data



Substance

  • Substance

  • - the core of the manuscript

  • (the issue being addressed)

  • Methodology

  • - fully defined & described

  • Style

  • - editorial/writing style

  • Calfee & Valencia, APA



Area of research/practice interests

  • Area of research/practice interests

  • Involvement with a professor’s

  • project

  • Must have something

  • [interesting] to say



Co-author with an experienced

  • Co-author with an experienced

  • professor/writer.

  • Seek a writing mentor.

  • Decide upon a journal and shape your

  • manuscript around their audience and

  • guidelines.

  • Develop an intimate relationship with the

  • APA Manual (or with someone who does).

  • Get feedback from friends, family, peers,

  • and professors.



Work with the Editor to move your manuscript forward (if invited to do so).

  • Work with the Editor to move your manuscript forward (if invited to do so).

  • Take regular “time outs” (particularly after receiving the peer reviews).



Finding the time.

  • Finding the time.

  • Length of time it takes to get a

  • response.

  • Managing your response to

  • Editor/Peer review comments.

  • Deciding how to re-write or edit the

  • manuscript.

  • Finding the time to rewrite.



Sharing your work

  • Sharing your work

  • Connections made with others

  • CV



The Practitioner’s Notebook

  • The Practitioner’s Notebook

  • Instructions at http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca

  • Brief reports

  • Case studies

  • Book reviews

  • Watch for “Call for Papers”

  • - Proposals



Literature review paper

  • Literature review paper

    • Be comprehensive.
    • Tell the reader what we know about the topic and what we don’t know.
    • First analyze critically, then synthesize the findings.


What directions should future researchers take?

    • What directions should future researchers take?
    • Implications of the literature review for counselling practice?
  • Writing a manuscript based on your thesis.



  • I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

  • -E.B. White



  • Email: rcc@ucalgary.ca

  • Address:

  • Kevin Alderson

  • Editor, Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy

  • EdT 322, University of Calgary

  • 2500 University Dr. NW

  • Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4



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