Scholarly Communication Support: Planning, Conducting, Sharing, Promoting, & Assessing Research

While it's true that you don't have complete control over where you publish -- an editor may or may not accept your manuscript for various reasons -- you should nevertheless choose a publishing venue to target from the beginning.

1. Use your project's subject matter, scope, and intended audience to identify several potential journals (or book publishers) that would be a good fit.
2. Choose one journal/publisher to target first according to any other factors that are important in your context (e.g., open access, lower/higher acceptance rate, promptness of publishing, reputation/prestige, and so forth).

Knowing your intended target will ensure that you are able to write and format your manuscript according to their requirements from the beginning: from the tone you use and the audience you address, to the citation style of your references or footnotes.

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