The guidelines, see
http://www.journalofj.com/index.php/contributors
request Word or plain text.
As for content (my $0.02) I would appreciate a more
conversational and personal article than is typical
for (so-called) scholarly journals.
Cheers,
-Dan
On 18 Apr 2014, at 12:37, Dan Bron wrote:
> mikel paternain wrote:
>> Remenber, the deadline for the first issue is May-31.
>> Please, visit www.journalofj.com for more information.
>
> For a non-academic person who's never published a paper in a journal
> before, can you outline what's expected of a submission?
>
> Or maybe it's better to turn the questions around and outline my concerns.
>
> I know J fairly well, and I could (probably) find a topic of general
> interest to the J community, but, for example, I don't know how to format
> PS or (La)TeX, and my tone tends to be more personal and less clincal.
> Also, I'd probably focus on dicussing a well-known topic (in a new, and
> hopefully illuminating) way, rather than publish new results or research.
>
> Could I submit something more along the lines of what you see me typically
> post to these Forums (though more self-contained and less
> "conversational")? Could I submit it in plain old ASCII?
>
> -Dan
>
> PS: I considered mailing mikel privately on this topic, but I figured if
> the answered turned out to be that the barrier to entry isn't so high, it
> might encourage other laypersons like myself to consider contributing to
> the JoJ.
>
>
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