Getting Published in JME: Top 10 Tips From the Co-Editors

We are excited to welcome you to our first issue of 2022! We hope that all our readers (and reviewers!) have enjoyed a restful break over the holiday season. As we discussed in our closing editorial last year, 2021 was a challenging year for everyone, and we hope that the coming 12 months will be relatively less stressful as we continue to adjust to “the new normal.” As we move toward more face-to-face interactions, we are looking forward to seeing more of you in person at conferences and workshops throughout the year, especially at the MOBTS meetings in Mannheim, Germany, and Cal Poly Pomona in the United States in June. If you are interested in publishing in JME, our “Meet The Editors” workshops held at various conferences are an excellent way to meet members of the editorial team and discuss manuscript ideas. Building on this point, in this editorial, we wanted to revisit a question that we receive most frequently at such workshops: What can authors do to increase the likelihood that their manuscript will be accepted for publication? Previous JME editor Jon Billsberry addressed a slightly different (related) question in one of the most popular JME editorials to date entitled, “Desk-Rejects: Top 10 Tips to Avoid the Cull.” We encourage all authors to review this article while preparing their manuscripts for submission, as Jon included some excellent suggestions to help manuscripts “survive” the initial review process. As a reminder, the JME Co-Editors review all submissions 1062591 JMEXXX10.1177/10525629211062591Journal of Management EducationEdwards and Leigh editorial2021