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Journal & Professional Editors


Journal Editors

If you are an editor of a professional journal, you probably have a cadre of qualified reviewers who review the papers submitted to you, and an editorial board whose chores include a detail editing of accepted papers prior to publication. A portion of their job is to assure that the citations are valid and that the references are well formed. That part of the job is tedious and error-prone, and can consume a great deal in doing a rote task. CiteRefs' analysis can provide assistance and reduce their work.

Probably the simplest way of proceeding is to have the reviewers submit the papers they are reviewing for CiteRefs analysis. This presumes they have an electronic copy.

Another approach to have authors submit their manuscripts for analysis to CiteRefs. A copy of the annotated, analyzed document produced by CiteRefs is sent, as usual, to the author, and a copy can be "cc:" e-mailed to you or a designate at the journal (there is a field on the submission form for this). The CiteRefs annotations then are passed on to the reviewers.

In any case, your reviewers are relieved of the chore of checking citations known to be correct - in most cases, the large majority of them - and are pointed straight to the problem ones.

If you have other ideas or constraints, please contact me for a discussion.

We adhere to the same strict standards of confidentiality as any ethical reviewer. The founder, Neil Webre, has the academic qualifications of many reviewers (see About Us), and could be added to your reviewer pool as a special reviewer. Again, we are willing to explore arrangements.

You might want to look at our page on security and privacy.

Professional Editors

Professional editors are those who accept APA formatted papers from individuals for review and charge on a per-page or per-hour basis. The productivity benefits of CiteRefs' analysis to you is obvious. It can save you a great deal of time and focus your attention on those cases that actually have a problem. Then too, we have analyzed documents after they have been professionally edited and have found that we still catch errors, though mostly minor ones. No human professional is a perfect practitioner. CiteRefs' computer software does not forget the APA rules embedded in its code, nor do the smallest details escape it's unflagging attention.

Contact Us

You can contact me at:

nwebre@citerefs.com

 

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