Abstract

In this editorial for the latest issue of the journal, the Editor-in-Chief offers some advice to first time authors approaching publication for the first time. In particular, he stresses the need to consider your audience, engage with editors ahead of submission, the facility of critical academic friends and steps to dealing with peer-review in a timely and non-emotive manner. The article continues with a correction and then an overview of the articles contained within the main body of the journal. Following a reminder of the various formats in which authors can contribute work for consideration in future issues. Finally, the editorial closes with a look forward to future regular and special issues, alongside highlighting the various ways readers and potential authors can engage with the journal's wider activities.

Highlights

  • Gareth J JohnsonYou may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use

  • Welcome to the eighteenth edition of Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, and our first regular issue of the year. If this is your first issue of Exchanges, welcome, it is always lovely to have new readers

  • More recently in March this year, I enjoyed the pleasure of chairing a panel discussion bringing together a number of speakers to talk about their own routes to success in publication

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Summary

Gareth J Johnson

You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.’ (Adams, quoted in Simpson, 2003)

Introduction
Heeding Good Advice
To Begin at the Beginning
Writing is Rewriting
Critical Reflections
Advice for Prospective Authors
Forthcoming Issues
Continuing the Conversation
The Exchanges Discourse
Editorial Board Members

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