I may be singularly unlucky but my experience in publishing in APA journals has been a detailed focus by editors on every period, comma and semi-colon for reference citations! After being asked on a couple of occasions to review and revise to correct format I try really hard to get it right the first time but invariable fail and have it pointed out to me each and every single time. So, when I hear people claim that they leave it to editors, I wonder how the experiences can be so diverse.
Of course, years ago I was told at a workshop on writing for publication in APA journals, held at an APA annual convention, that they typically find a couple of differences between men and women when it comes to submissions. Number 1: author submits article and gets a rejection notice with detailed information why. Man's response: Hot damn! I've got a publication, let me clean it up and resubmit. Woman's response: Damn! Another one for the trash can. Let me start over. Number 2: women spend a much larger amount of time and effort on addressing every single critique; men pick out the ones they find most important and address only those. At that time (maybe 15 or so years ago--and I have to say it resonated loudly with me!) there was a disproportionate number of publications by men, relative to the number of first submissions. I don't know if that has changed, nor how one would know....one clear trend is away from single author papers in psychology but at least not to the ridiculous number of authors many medical papers have. I wonder what it means to have a publication on your vita if you are 23rd author? or even the 5th or 6th? And how can you tell across disciplines who was primary on the study as I understand that in many medical studies the LAST author is the primary author. Sigh. So many games, so many more important things to do. Annette Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=18727 or send a blank email to leave-18727-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
