AIC's 46th Annual Meeting

This 90-minute pre-meeting session is open to all with an interest in scholarly publications, including those with experience publishing that may wish to offer advice to others.

PROGRAM

Julio M. del Hoyo-Meléndez, Editor-in-Chief JAIC, “Introduction: Why publish in JAIC?” and will cover:

• Aims and scope of the journal
• Preparing your paper (content and format)
• References
• Checklist before submission
• Peer review

Robin Hanson, Associate Editor for Textiles JAIC, “The outline and the importance of a writing a compelling abstract”

• Creating and developing your article (the outline)
• The abstract seen as the initial “sales tool” for a good paper
• How Figures and Tables support the results presented in a manuscript

George Cooper, Managing Editor, Journals Anthropology, Conservation, Museum Studies & Heritage, Taylor & Francis, "How to get published and the benefits of being published: the publisher's perspective” 

Bonnie Naugle, JAIC Managing Editor, "Postprint to JAIC"

Roundtable discussion: What do JAIC editors look for? - Work which will stand up to peer review (quality / language),  - novel to the conservation community, - original research, - research that is interesting to the journal’s readership. Q&A + Examples of common mistakes found in articles (15 min)