Guidelines for prospective authors to submit acceptable manuscripts to the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Abstract

The Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) has recently compiled a list of problems in the manuscripts submitted to JASA that often lead to an outright rejection by the Associate Editors handling their review. These problems often occur during submission and writing of a manuscript. They include selecting a title, listing the authors, composing an abstract, defining the scope of work, presenting the background and significance of the research, reporting and discussing the major discovery, ideas and results, showing the work and results that have been published by others in other journals already, drawing concise conclusions, citing references, displaying equations, figures, tables, etc. Last but not the least is the English writing that should be grammatically correct and easy to understand by someone with a similar background. This talk gives a quick overview of these potential problems, which are frequently shown in the manuscripts submitted by authors overseas. The goal of this talk is to provide helpful suggestions and guidelines to the prospective authors whose native language is not English to submit manuscripts that can pass the initial screening and ultimately get published in JASA. Disguised examples of some problematic manuscripts are discussed and analyzed.