Editors, Your Authors Are the Experts on Their Own Names
We editors should all listen to our authors when they tell us how their names should appear on what we edit. I think that in the USA it's purely privilege—both…
Dear Newly Self-Employed Editors . . . Here's an Update
Back in 2014, I wrote a blog post because I "wanted newbies to know that I have hard days too—and that I love freelancing despite those days." Well, it's 2021 and…
What Non-Native English Speakers Need When Submitting Manuscripts to Western Science Journals
This article from The Scientist is right that language problems aren't always what get international authors' research manuscripts rejected by English-language science journals. Most often, there is a problem with…