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Process

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These pages tell you about the process of writing your paper and getting it into print.  They contain information on:

• Getting a ms ID, which must be used for all correspondence about your paper.

• How to e-mail your paper to the editor.

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• Tips for clear writing, to help your paper get accepted and to encourage readers to read it.  This section is vital for both native and non-native writers.  Including:  There, clauses.

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• The peer review process, and how to help the reviewer to help you.

• Coaching review process.

• Responding to reviewers.

• A copy of the ms evaluation form sent to reviewers.

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• Getting permission from other publishers to reproduce material in your paper.

• Sending the author agreement to the publisher, once your paper has been accepted.

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• Publication.

• Follow-up.  Getting your article read and cited.

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• Etiquette (for newcomers, and maybe others)

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• Advice.  You are strongly urged to consult Prof Tanya Golash-Boza's blog on how to succeed in academia and have a life too.  http://getalifephd.blogspot.fr/

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The other broad areas in this Guide for S&G Authors are:

Overview.  The scope of S&G, the substance of articles, the types of paper published in S&G.  It also contains special author guides for reviews and for ready-to-use games.

Structure:  The things that you must include in your ms, to get your it into shape for review and publication, such as laying out your ms in certain ways or including certain elements (abstract, keywords, etc.).

Guest editing:  Notes to help you prepare a proposal to guest edit a symposium issue of S&G.