FAQ Journal

FAQ

Submission

• A Thematic Issue associated with a specific event or conference was recently announced. Can I submit to the Thematic Issue even if I didn’t attend the event?
  • Yes. The submission must be thematically appropriate to the issue (e.g., a submission to the thematic issue for the PEG 2017 conference should be about pegmatites), but you don’t have to have attended the conference to submit to the issue.
• I’m not sure if my article is appropriate for publication in The Canadian Mineralogist. Should I submit anyway?
  • If you’re not sure if your article is a good fit for our audience, we suggest you contact the Managing Editor to ask if it is appropriate. You can submit regardless, but if the article is determined to be not appropriate for our audience, it will rejected without review.

Publication

• How long is your submission to publication time?
  • The two most significant influences on sub to pub time are reviewer response time and author revision time. Assuming that the reviewers take 30 days to deliver their evaluation and that authors take 30 days to deliver their revision, the current estimated sub to pub time is ~3-4 months for online publication. Print publication depends on when the next available issue is scheduled.
• I need my article published by a specific date because I am applying for a job / tenure / merit. Can you help?
  • If you have a specific publication deadline for your article, please inform us as early as possible in the review or editorial process. We will do everything we can to accommodate deadlines, and will inform your if it is not achievable. Please notify us of a deadline even if you think there is plenty of time.