When you submit your manuscript to a journal for publication, you need to submit it according to the journal’s editorial and style standards. These can be very different from journal to journal.
Manuscript submission, Open Access, data archives
DGM Research & Consulting is committed to making research accessible as freely and as widely as possible. We fully support the Open Access model. There are several points to consider before submitting your manuscript for publication:
- Does your [funding body, employer, organization, regulatory body, or someone else] allow or require you to post your research protocol to Open Access resources, for example, the Open Science Framework registry at the Center for Open Science (OSF at COS)?
- Does your funding body [etc.] allow or require you to post your pre-publication manuscripts to Open Access resources, for example, Europe PubMed Central or medRxiv?
- Does your funding body [etc.] allow or require you to publish your peer-reviewed, final manuscript in an Open Access journal, for example, BMC Medical Genomics?
- Does your funding body [etc.] allow or require you to archive your data in a public repository, for example, the European GDI?
These questions only scratch the surface, and they are worth considering before you begin your project. Let us help you contextualize and operationalize these considerations up front so that you will not have to figure it out along the way.
EndNote for citation management
We recommend that you commit to a citation manager before you begin your research. This will allow you to keep track of every resource you consult: journal articles, databases, websites, legal documents, email messages, personal interviews, and more. We recommend EndNote as an excellent citation manager. EndNote creates a database of virtually every type of information resource you can think of. You can link your articles to EndNote, and you can integrate EndNote with Word to write your manuscript. In Word, you click to insert a citation; Word pulls the citation from EndNote; it will insert it into your manuscript; it will format it according to your formatting choices; and it will automatically create your list of references. And if you want to change the format from AMA to APA, for example, you select the new format from a drop-down menu, and Word will automatically reformat all your in-text citations and your reference list with one click.
We use EndNote to manage all of the results we come up with when conducting your online research. EndNote can also deduplicate your references, saving you time on the back end when you’re collecting articles to evaluate them. We can supply your references in any format and any style you would like. But if you would like to control the formats and styles yourself, please consider purchasing your own copy of EndNote. We will provide you with the entire EndNote library of the results from your search to customize as you please.
EndNote training
If you’re new to EndNote, we offer one-on-one training to get you started. There are plenty of EndNote how-to videos on the internet, but if you want focused instruction on just the features you need, consider hiring us for a half-hour or an hour to get you set up and customized to meet your specific needs
If you would like to know more about our fees for these services, please see our Menu of Services & Fees.