Posts Tagged ‘abstracts’

Long abstracts — still a problem

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Not getting the message applies to more than the risks discussed in my earlier posting. If your abstract significantly exceeds our 1,500-character limit (and I’d call 3,000 “significant!”), the probability is 100 percent you will be asked to shorten it. I tentatively accepted 5 papers this morning , all of them on condition of a shorter abstract.

The size limit is not just a bureaucratic whim, something to help page layout. Including extraneous information hurts your chances of being read and cited! Less is more!

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing News

Friday, April 30th, 2010

You can tell a lot about people by what they are reading. So, to give you some insight into what I think (scary?!) as an editor, I want to call your attention to a blog by our publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing News.

Along with stuff only a geek editor could love, there is some good info. Take a look at “Optimizing Abstracts for Search Engines.” Advice along these lines appeared in this bolg on Marcy 17, 2009 and subsequent postings. This, however, adds some sound advice for fine-tuning to suit search engines.