One of our goals as JCMS editors (that’s me and Liz Ellcessor, co-editors, and our fabulous masthead team) is to increase transparency around the journal’s operations. We also want to make the journal a welcoming place for a wide variety of scholars to submit their work.
As part of that effort, we and the fabulous Assistant Editors (Mel Monier and Jennessa Hester) have put together this helpful flowchart, “The Life of a JCMS Article Submission.” We distributed it at an info session about publishing with JCMS at SCMS this spring – and now it’s available online.
The flowchart walks you through the steps of: preparing your article, submitting, undergoing desk review, undergoing peer review, doing revisions, working through developmental edits and production, and more. We hope it helps demystify what is admittedly a long and complicated academic publishing process!
