In several recent editorial articles in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (Ahlstrom, 2010a, 2010b, 2010c), I noted that we receive numerous submissions to APJM that are potentially of interest, but often have improperly organized and undersold arguments, or simply lie outside of the aims and scope of this journal (Ahlstrom, 2011). These problems hurt otherwise interesting papers as it can be difficult to see their specific value and contribution. Those articles also provided several recommendations to prospective authors in terms of crafting their papers, avoiding desk rejections, and responding to reviewers. Interested authors should look carefully at those APJM articles as well as this journal’s aims and scope, which can be found on APJM’s website along with other instructions and helpful information on writing for scholarly publication (Ahlstrom, 2010a, b, c, 2011; Huff, 1999, 2008; Machi & McEvoy, 2008; Sutton & Staw, 1995). This article seeks to provide a summary of some of that information by supplying a quick checklist of a few key items to which authors should pay particular attention in preparing their papers for APJM (see Table 1). This checklist, while not exhaustive, provides some essential guidelines for a prospective author to check before submitting a manuscript to APJM. In addition, authors should take note of the different types of papers published in APJM (e.g., Ahlstrom, Chen, & Yeh, 2010; Ahlstrom, Lamond, & Ding, 2009; Dieleman, 2010; Peng, Li, Xie, & Su, 2010) as well as the books and articles cited here as they provide some additional helpful information on possible research as well as an array of researchand publishingrelated topics for authors (e.g., Ahlstrom, 2010c; Huff, 1999, 2008). Asia Pac J Manag (2011) 28:449–452 DOI 10.1007/s10490-011-9260-x