Guidelines for Editors

A checklist of tasks for editors of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice

Please be aware of what the current version of Call for Paper says.
At first contact, ask authors to read the Author Guidelines
If appropriate, invite them to email a 150 word abstract to
When you receive this, upload it to the Abstracts Gallery and/or deal with it yourself
If appropriate, invite them to submit a full article and ask them to follow the Author Checklist
When you receive a full paper, immediately upload it to the Unedited Articles Gallery
Announce this to other/s or work on it yourself (make it know to everyone what you have done)
Before inviting an Editorial Board member to referee a paper, please link them to the Reviewer Guidelines
Whenever a paper is refereed and/or edited please ensure the following:

That all comments are highlighted using WORD's 'Track Changes' facility (under Tools)
That you have written the editor's/reviewer's name and date on the top of the article
That you have recorded the latest word-count in the Gallery notes field

Ensure the author returns a signed paper version of the Copyright Consent Form to Ann Schlachter
When an article has been refereed, notify us and move it from the Unedited Articles Gallery to the Edited Articles Gallery, etc.
Some style issues are outlined in our guidelines
If there are unresolved issues, download the publisher's style guide

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