JAWRA Blog » abstracts http://awramedia.org/jawra Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:11:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Long abstracts — still a problem http://awramedia.org/jawra/2010/05/03/long-abstracts-still-a-problem/ http://awramedia.org/jawra/2010/05/03/long-abstracts-still-a-problem/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 19:02:14 +0000 Ken Lanfear http://awramedia.org/jawra/?p=294 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> 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!

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]]> http://awramedia.org/jawra/2010/05/03/long-abstracts-still-a-problem/feed/ 2 Wiley-Blackwell Publishing News http://awramedia.org/jawra/2010/04/30/wiley-blackwell-publishing-news/ http://awramedia.org/jawra/2010/04/30/wiley-blackwell-publishing-news/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:38:18 +0000 Ken Lanfear http://awramedia.org/jawra/?p=282 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> 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.

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