JLME Submission Guidelines

Authors will be consulted during the editing stage about any editorial changes to their texts. Minor standardizations — headings, alignments, references, minor punctuation revisions, applications of our stylebook, and so forth — will not be discussed. Authors will also receive final-stage proofs for review, at which time only significant corrections will be permitted. Because of the constraints of publishing, authors will be given only a brief window of time (typically, two business days) to respond to editing changes and then, later on in the process, the final-stage proof.

Once a manuscript has been accepted, authors are expected to be aware of specific impediments to their ability to be reached by email and to respond to editing changes or the final-stage proof (e.g., vacation, conference traveling) within the timeframe mentioned above. They must alert the managing editor of these impediments when the final manuscript is submitted (if they are aware of the impediments at that time) or at least two weeks prior to the time when they will be unreachable or unable to give the article’s review their immediate attention. Otherwise, an author’s failure to respond to the editing changes and/or the final-stage proof during the time provided will be deemed an acknowledgment by the author that the changes and/or final proof is/are acceptable for publication.