How to publish your paper to domestic authors faster and better, besides the academic value of the article itself and the author's English level, the key is to do a good job in market analysis, choose appropriate publications and be targeted, so as to increase the competitiveness of the manuscript and be accepted by more international academic journals. In recent years, with the continuous enhancement of China's comprehensive national strength and the unremitting efforts of countless people of insight, China's scientific research level is booming, and more and more scientific research achievements have reached the international advanced level. At the same time, in the international publishing market, there are more and more publications (including books and articles) from China. However, compared with China's huge scientific research team and achievements, its number is still quite small. The reason is that the language barrier is one thing, but it is more because the authors in China don't know enough about the publishing procedures of international English periodicals and books, which increases the difficulty of submission or the probability of rejection. On the other hand, even if the article is accepted by the publication, there are still many points worthy of attention in order to turn the paper into a high-quality publication as soon as possible. Based on the author's more than ten years' experience in editing English sci-tech journals in Britain, this paper will introduce in detail the three main stages in the publishing process of international English academic journals, and the problems that China authors should pay special attention to in each related stage. As the saying goes, choosing a publication and writing an article is difficult at the beginning, and choosing the right contributor is an important first step. If you want to win the bid with one arrow, you should not only know yourself and yourself. The selection and acceptance of manuscripts by international academic journals are not exactly the same as those in China. Details are as follows. International English academic journals are the main editors, not restricted by other administrative orders, and publishers have no right to interfere in the selection of manuscripts. One journal is edited by a well-known scholar with high academic status, and there are two or more. Under the editor-in-chief, it is decided whether to set up a regional editor-in-chief according to the popularity and popularity of the subject. If there is such a setting, in most cases, the contribution is also divided by region, and the editor of a region is responsible for listening to the contribution. Otherwise, all the manuscripts will be collected in the hands of the editor-in-chief for preliminary review. Below the regional editor is the editorial board, which is generally composed of 10-30 famous scholars. Most of them are the main reviewers, not for reviewing journals, not for the development of journals, not for the progress of disciplines, and of course not for personal popularity. In addition to the editorial board, the editor-in-chief himself will occasionally invite reviewers, especially when several reviewers have serious differences on the same manuscript, the editor-in-chief will ask the invited reviewers for advice. The general process of review/peer review is primary selection, submission, modification and final review. When the manuscript is handed over to the editor-in-chief or regional editor, it must first pass the primary election to see if it is worth considering publishing in this journal. Wan Li's article, a thousand words off the topic, was shot on the spot; If the editor-in-chief thinks it conforms to the publication policy, he will enter the submission stage; If the article is good, but it is not in line with the scope of the publication, the editor-in-chief will also reject it, but will actively recommend a publication that is more relevant to the author. Articles decided to be submitted for review shall be reviewed by 3-4 editors or reviewers at the same time according to different publications, and a reply shall be given on schedule. If the manuscript is approved by everyone or most people give the green light, it will be accepted, but this is rare and most of them are conditionally accepted. The author needs to revise the first draft according to the reviewers' opinions. In most cases, it is a small change, but sometimes it is necessary to supplement the data, reanalyze the results, and even redesign the experiment. Whether it is a major change or a minor change, the revised manuscript should be returned to the editor-in-chief within the specified time, and the first round of reviewers will review whether it is qualified. In most cases, the manuscript can be passed after one revision, but there are also many revisions before it is finally submitted to the publishing house. It is worth mentioning that it is entirely the author's own business whether to accept the opinions of reviewers to modify the manuscript when publishing articles in foreign journals. Often some authors are unwilling to modify the manuscript or can't accept the opinions of the reviewers, so they will propose to cancel the submission. They just need to write a note to the owner. In some journals, authors can recommend reviewers to the editor-in-chief, but the number of such journals is limited. All articles that pass the final review will be included in the publication plan of the journal, and the manuscript will be quickly sent to the publishing house that published the journal and enter the next publishing procedure. The whole process of reviewing manuscripts, from the first draft to the final submission to publishers, different publishers and different editors, takes a lot of time, and it also depends on the quality of the manuscript and the speed of revision by the author. In addition, in some international English academic journals, some special issues are often published, with different publishing purposes, but the process is similar. The topic of a special issue is mostly decided by the editor-in-chief or members of the editorial board, and sometimes it is a compilation of academic conference papers. The special issue was edited, summarized and reviewed by 1-3 special guests. The procedure is relatively simple and the time is relatively short. However, whether to adopt a special issue or a general manuscript depends on whether the content of the manuscript conforms to the publishing policy and the academic and written quality of the manuscript, and the key person who decides these factors is the author himself. Once the author decides to publish an article, it is a key step to find the publication that the general will contribute according to the subject and research content. Domestic writers are often afraid of their poor English, and spend a lot of time on writing from the beginning, ignoring the investigation and understanding of the market. At present, there are many English academic journals in the western market, and the academic and publishing quality is uneven, which can be roughly divided into three categories: upper, middle and lower. It is almost well known that first-class is the best. Published articles have great influence and contribution to scientific research, such as Science and Nature. The number of such publications is very small, and the number of articles published each year is limited. It would be a blessing if an article could be published in such a famous journal. The second category is less well-known, but it is often the main carrier of a good article on a subject, and the content of the article is also very demanding. There are many publications at this level, almost in every subject; The last category has the largest number of publications, and some disciplines have more than two such publications. The level of published articles is relatively low, but they are all original scientific research achievements of the author, which is the basis or paving stone for further research in the future. To sum up, once the author decides to publish an article, he must first have a correct position on his scientific research level. It is of course good to be published in a first-class journal, but unrealistic comparison is equal to wasting both sides' time. After positioning correctly, it is also important to choose periodicals. Be sure to clearly understand the publishing purpose and academic scope of different publications (usually on the inside cover or the back of the first page of the publication, and also on the webpage), and then choose the most suitable publication as the first submission object according to your own article content. Once the publication is determined, the next step is to study the submission requirements of the publication (/GIUDE FOR AUTHORS), see its specific requirements for the format, charts, references and other aspects of the manuscript, and start designing the first draft. Words are important, but charts can't be ignored. For the author of China, two points in the manuscript are particularly important, one is the name, and the other is the contact address. China's author's name is expressed in the form of Chinese Pinyin in English publications, usually in two ways: first, the surname comes first, and the first name comes last; The other is first name and last name. There is nothing wrong with either way: one is from China and the other is from the West. The key is that once you decide to adopt one, you must keep doing it and don't change it. In addition, the author's contact address must be written accurately. If there is no email, you can put a Chinese communication label on the manuscript to ensure the accurate delivery of the receipt. The address of the first page of the article should be the unit where the author is engaged in this research, not the mailing address when submitting the manuscript. For the main author (contact author), if there is any difference, the contact address after submission should be indicated to show the difference (generally in the lower footnote of the first page in the proof). After the manuscript is completed, it can be sent out in different ways. At present, many publications accept online submission, which is convenient and quick, and you can check the progress of the manuscript at any time; Both fax and email are acceptable, but be sure to find out who to send it to, the editor-in-chief or the regional editor, so as to avoid wasting time by passing it around afterwards. Once the manuscript is issued, it is the first step to the success of the Long March. No matter what the result is, it is a good learning process. If you miss a shot, you don't have to be discouraged. You can modify it and try again later, but the most taboo is to submit more than one manuscript. In order to save time, some authors put their own manuscripts in several publications at the same time, with the aim of "the east is not bright, and the west is bright." Everyone knows that this move has more advantages than disadvantages, especially it is easy to damage the author's reputation and should be eliminated. Publishing academic articles in journals is another important step. The author has a lot of work to do at this stage, and its progress will directly affect the quality and speed of publishing online and printed publications. 1. manuscript registration At present, in the publishing process of sci-tech periodicals, most of the publishing process is computerized, and the most prominent performance is the distribution of manuscripts and the processing of proofs. Compared with the working procedures and means more than ten years ago, today's publishing industry can be said to have undergone earth-shaking changes. First of all, this change is manifested in the different communication channels of the original. In the past, the basic transmission methods were mail and fax, so the opening remarks of editing a day's work at that time were dealing with mail. Not only that, the early manuscript registration method was primitive, and there was no computer, let alone a computer database. The new manuscript is printed on a paper card by the boarding officer with a printer, registered with the number and submitted to the editor. Today, the situation is very different. Many publications have begun to accept online contributions. The accepted manuscript can be sent to the publishing house by e-mail. The manuscript registrar inputs all the information, including the title of the manuscript, the author's name, the date when the editorial department received the manuscript, the page number, the chart, the detailed address to contact the author and the communication method. Access to the computer database of the publishing system has greatly improved the speed and efficiency. Once the manuscript is registered, the author will receive a receipt soon, indicating that the manuscript has been registered. In the process of manuscript registration, if the format and chart of the manuscript do not meet the requirements or are in short supply, the publishing society will send a letter to the author for requirements. At the same time, the copyright agreement of the article and the order form of OFFPRINTS will also be sent to the author at this time. If there are colored pictures in the article, colored letters will be attached for the author's consideration and choice. All these letters, except copyright and printed copies, must be answered immediately by the author, otherwise the manuscript will not be sent to the factory for typesetting in time and will be put on hold in the database, with delays ranging from weeks to months. For domestic authors, the biggest trouble is that the mailing address is wrong and they can't be contacted. Some authors change their addresses and often forget to inform the publishing house, thus losing a lot of valuable time. In addition, once you receive these letters, you should read them carefully and reply in time as required. You should make up the missing charts as soon as possible, and try to change the quality or format that does not meet the requirements. As for color maps, of course, if there is money, printing color maps is better. If the color map cannot be printed, the publishing house shall be notified to print it into a black and white map as soon as possible. Now, many publications can publish WEB COLOUR online for free if the author can provide the electronic original. In addition, there are two issues worthy of attention during this period. One is the copyright agreement, which is a legal contract between the publisher and the author. Once signed, it must be done according to the contract, otherwise it will bear legal responsibility. In addition, if you want to quote the charts in other people's published articles, you must obtain the written permission of the copyright owner (publishing house or academic group) at the time of publication, otherwise you can't quote them. Theoretically, this work should be handled well in the manuscript stage, but in fact, due to many aspects involved, it is often dragged to the manuscript and sent to the publishing house. If the author himself has difficulty in dealing with this matter, he can ask the publishing house for help. Because the publishing house has a department in charge of copyright, it can directly contact another related publishing house or group to solve the problem quickly. Moreover, many big publishing houses have copyright agreements, which allow the other's publications to quote the charts in their own publications conditionally or unconditionally, saving the authors a lot of time and energy. What needs to be emphasized is the manuscript itself. Any manuscript sent to the publishing house must be the final version. All the scrutiny of the manuscript text and the retouching of the chart should be completed before the finalization. Once the manuscript is sent to the publishing house, it can't be changed. This is a basic publishing principle. However, some authors always send a new manuscript to the publishing house after receiving the registration notice from the publishing house, requesting to replace the original manuscript. This attitude of striving for perfection is valuable, but it is too late. If it is a minor change, the publishing house generally ignores it; If there is a big change, the publishing society will send the manuscript just received back to the editor-in-chief, ask for his opinion and make the final approval. This will often delay a lot of time, get twice the result with half the effort, and do more harm than good. In short, in the process of manuscript registration, the author should provide the required materials to the publishing house quickly and inform the change of contact address in time, and don't take this opportunity to modify and polish the manuscript. However, it is undeniable that after the manuscript is issued, in order to improve the accuracy of the academic content of the article, it is sometimes necessary to make some minor changes to the academic content. Such changes are allowed, but most of them must be made in the next publishing process, that is, the proof stage. Proofreading is like registering a manuscript. The typesetting work in the publishing process is not what it used to be. The computer has completely replaced the old type typesetting, and the speed and quality have been greatly improved. Now, it takes only a few weeks on average for a manuscript to go from publishing house to proof, which is only a few days faster. Moreover, the form and way of the author's acceptance of the proof have also changed. It used to be mostly paper samples and ordinary mail. Now, as long as the author has e-mail, proofs are sent in the form of e-mail (PDF), and the author can receive them in an instant. When reviewing English proofs, Chinese authors should first check the author's name, not just the first page, footnotes, thank-you letters, references and so on. And find out the names of China's authors one by one. In addition, typographical errors and necessary revisions in the article should be sent back to the publishing house as soon as possible. As for the proofreading requirements and feedback channels, publishers generally have detailed explanations in proofreading cover letters, so authors had better follow the rules and not be creative. If a picture needs to be changed, it is best to attach the changed picture together, which can save a lot of time. In a word, in the process of manuscript distribution and revision, the author should cooperate with the publishing house as much as possible, and should not always give orders or never hear from him. These two extremes are not conducive to the high-speed and high-quality publication of articles, and are by no means the original intention of the author or publishing house. On the contrary, publishers and authors are willing to see the article published as soon as possible. If the two sides cooperate effectively and make full use of the current technical means, the article can be published in the shortest time, the publishing house will benefit and the author will be named. Why not? In the traditional publishing concept, publishing articles has only one meaning, that is, editing the proofs after the nuclear red into periodicals and printing and publishing them. But now, the significance of publishing an article is twofold, that is, publishing it on the Internet and printing it. To be sure, the emergence of the Internet has completely broken the single publishing form of traditional paper printing. 1. An article was published on the Internet. Nowadays, before the printed version, electronic publishing on the Internet has become a quick and simple publishing method for many academic journals. The main form of this method is to publish the article on the website of the journal, and all the proofs revised by the author can be published online in the form of a single article at a very fast speed. These articles are collectively referred to as articles to be printed, which means published articles waiting for editing and publishing. This new form of online publication of a single article before the printed version greatly speeds up the publication of the article. Once the author's opinions on the revision of the proof are fed back to the publishing house, the proof can be revised in the typesetting workshop (computer room) in a few days, and can be published on the website of the publication after necessary technical treatment to meet all readers. Compared with printed periodicals, this will advance the publication time by at least one to two months, or even more. In addition, this form of electronic publishing has many advantages that printed periodicals do not have. First of all, it is reflected in the processing of color pictures. In the past, because of the cost problem, many color pictures could only be printed in black and white, and their academic quality was inevitably compromised. On the internet, as long as the author can provide the electronic version of the original picture, all the color pictures in the manuscript can be published free of charge in the form of color pictures. Secondly, the charts and references in the article are interrelated, so you can see the detailed information related to them by clicking, and you can also attach a short video or audio-visual material to the article. Third, online publishing only involves a single article, which can be published after proofreading once, and is not limited by publishing frequency and the number of pages published in each issue, which is also the most fundamental difference between online publishing and printed edition. Finally, there is another popular function of online publishing, that is, the author can check the progress of the manuscript online at any time, regardless of office hours and regional time difference. Unfortunately, in the early days of the rise of online publishing, many publications allowed authors or designated libraries to download articles for free, but now this situation is becoming less and less. At the same time, articles published online are no different from printed articles in legal sense, and once published, they cannot be changed. If the author makes great changes to the proof when verifying the proof, he can ask the publishing house to check the revised proof. Whether this requirement can be met is different for each publishing house, and each publishing house has different regulations. The author may consult the editor-in-chief or publishing house if he wishes. In order to save time and speed, some publishers no longer encourage authors to review proofs, but this is a minority after all. However, with the continuous innovation and progress of the publishing industry, whether this niche will become the mainstream depends on its development and market requirements. 2. Articles edited for publication are published on the Internet and printed. According to the size of the publication, the number of manuscript sources and the frequency of publication, the articles published on the Internet are sorted and published in turn. Some articles have to wait a few weeks, others have to wait longer. As for the position of an article in a periodical, it is determined by many factors. Some journals are sorted according to the severity of academic content, some are sorted according to disciplines, and most of them are sorted according to the time when manuscripts are accepted. If there are different articles by the same author in a manuscript, most of them are arranged together, and most of the work of editing into periodicals is done by the publishing house. Except for special issues, the author and editor-in-chief do not interfere. The publishing order of the special issue has been determined by the guest editor of the special issue when the manuscript is sent to the publishing house, and the publishing house only needs to publish and print step by step. After the first manuscript is arranged, it will be sent to the typesetting workshop together with four letters (front cover and back cover). Now this step is also electronic, and the publishing house has finalized it, and the relevant materials will arrive at the typesetting workshop immediately, regardless of the distance and time difference. After the four proofs are discharged, they will be returned to the publishing house for approval, mainly to check the catalogue and related information of this issue, such as issue number and date. After the four papers are approved, they will immediately return to the typesetting workshop, and together with all the articles in the journal, they will be summarized into an electronic document, which will be published online after technical treatment. Once an article appears in the online edition of a journal, it will automatically disappear from the article column to be printed on the Internet. The contents of the first issue of this publication published online are exactly the same as the printed version. However, it was published several weeks before the print edition, which accelerated the publication speed. After the publication was published on the Internet, the typesetting workshop completed the work of this manuscript, and the printing plant was responsible for the later printing process. In foreign countries, the typesetting workshop (compositor) and the printing factory (printer) are separate, usually two independent manufacturers, and have no affiliation with the publishing house, but an ordinary employment and employment relationship. If typesetting and printing are of high quality, fast speed, reasonable price and low cost, the publishing house will cooperate with it for a long time, otherwise it will be in danger of being fired. Nowadays, the printing factory is highly computerized, and the quality and speed of printing are much higher than before. After the first issue of the magazine is printed and bound, it will soon be sent to subscribers all over the world to meet readers. Shortly after the publication of the printed publication, the author's free printed copy and supplement will also be sent to the contact author. In the final stage of this publishing process, China should pay special attention to two aspects. One is the final confirmation of the name. If there are any errors in the articles published online, they should immediately notify the publishing house to correct them. As long as the time is up, the publishing house can correct the mistakes in the names of online authors and avoid mistakes in the printed version. The second is to ensure that the publishing house has the latest mailing address to contact the author. If there is any change in the unit, road name and postal code, it should inform the publishing house in time, and indicate the title of the article and the number of the article in the publishing house in the letter. Without the correct address, the author's free printed copies and supplements cannot be mailed to the author. Generally speaking, when the author receives the printed manuscript, the publishing process of the article will generally come to an end, individual publications will be published in electronic version, and the article will be engraved into a CD. But this is mostly just a technical treatment, which has nothing to do with the author. In a word, today's academic journal publishing industry is in a historic period of change, which is mainly reflected in the diversification of publishing forms and the computerization of publishing process. This change not only expanded the scope of academic exchange, but also accelerated the speed of information transmission, which played a positive role in the progress and development of human scientific research. However, this change has not affected the basic operating mechanism and structure of academic journals at present. The editor-in-chief is responsible for academic journals, and the publishing house is responsible for publishing. Therefore, for a long time to come, if researchers want to publish articles, they must deal with editors and publishers. For domestic authors, in addition to the academic value of the article itself and the author's English level, the key to publishing articles in international English journals is to do a good job in market analysis, choose appropriate publications and be targeted, so as to increase the competitiveness of the manuscript and be accepted by more international academic journals. After the manuscript is accepted, the author should respond to the requirements of the publishing house quickly and accurately, which can effectively speed up the publication of the article and ensure the final publication quality. "Once reborn, ten years cooked", "Failure is the mother of success", as time goes by, with the continuous expansion and deepening of academic exchanges between China scholars and the international community, there will surely be more and more articles from China in western academic journals, and the quality will also be continuously improved.