Important Steps of Journal Production Services

Journal production services revolve around processing manuscripts and sharing published papers across platforms. These services mainly focus on helping the community in the reading and research sectors. Manuscripts accepted for publication will often be checked by copyeditors. They ensure that standards are adhered to, and the articles have readable content before publication.

If you’re not a native English speaker, getting your work edited by a native speaker can help ensure your work is clear and concise. You will also need to establish stages to be used by your editors during the journal production before publishing the article. The whole process from receiving, accepting a manuscript to its final release should be managed in a simple and efficient way.

Here are the steps of journal production services

Copyediting

Copyeditors should review the manuscript to ensure it complies with the journal-style guide, alt-text writing, and publisher guidelines for punctuation, grammar, and style. All journals adhere to specific standards with regard to the presentation of the content. It’s the copyeditor’s job to ensure manuscripts adhere to these styles. This process is quite labor-intensive, so it helps if you have a big editing team to work with.

Proofreading and typesetting

This step involves formatting the documents into either PDF or HTML articles and generating machine-legible XML metadata files to submit to discovery services. The use of XML metadata and full-text format enables published articles to be included in major indexing and abstracting services. Thereafter typeset articles move to proof review so editors and authors can perform final checks. At times, the author is asked to provide clarifications with their comments and corrections.

Online publishing

Once typesetting and proofreading are done, it’s time to get the manuscript to the readers. Many authors decide which journal to submit to depending on how fast their publication time is. For most journals, publishing services tend to come with a slew of technical issues. If your site requires code to make updates, it will be likely that only one of your editors can post their work. This will slow down your progress, and you reduce your writers. Improving your publication time can dramatically improve both readership and collaborations.

Indexing

This is the final phase of the journal production service. Here, writers submit their published articles to relevant indexes and discovery services to help readers find them. Indexing is vital to the reputation and reach of journal production. Once your journal has prioritized indexing, there will be an increase in the reach of the articles and better servicing of researchers. Another thing to be aware of in indexing is that many platforms will need or prefer that post details be presented in XML format. This will help you achieve the broadest indexing reach and meet the highest technical indexing standards.

 While it may seem difficult for journal production services to get the most impact, all you need is good collaboration and workflow among your editors. Let them familiarize themselves with the different production stages to improve your publishing outcomes.