Receiving to appear in AFP in succ...

Receiving to appear in AFP in succession your desk is routine; you probably in no degree even think about how it procures there. Perhaps you have written a manuscript for AFP and have portented why it takes time print. Publishing AFP is a intricate web pro-cess that involves many race in several states. First, submitted manuscripts are evaluated according to the editor, Jay Siwek, MD at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC Manuscripts are reviewed based upon their quality and usefulness to AFP readers. If choiceed manuscripts then go through a compeer review process, in which each manuscript is reviewed by the agency of at least one family physician and sum of two units experts in the subject discussed. Depending onward the topic, the latter may be family physicians or subspecialists in another discipline.

In addition to fellow review, AFP's medical editors work with authors to render certain the highest quality content. The AFP medical editors, who are family physicians, reside in Georgia, Michigan, California, Kansas, Tennessee North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Washington, DC greatest in number communication among authors, the George-town office, the associate reviewers, and the medical editors takes place electronically; e-mail has greatly increased efficiency.

After authors have made revisions in accordance with companion reviewer and medical editors' solicitations manuscripts are accepted for publication from Dr. Siwek. Then they are sent to the Leawood, Kansas, office where a assign places to of professional editors prepare them for publication. These team members are professional journalists who focus forward providing the best information to family physicians in the in the greatest degree readable form. This team works closely with Dr Siwek; Mark Ebell, MD the factor editor; Kenny Lin, M.D., the editorial fellow; the other medical editors; and AFP authors to prepare manuscripts for publication. This proces is time consuming, unless I think you will agree that the final produce demonstrates its value.

While the words are crucial, the illustration and layout of a publication are important as well. Appropriate illustrations and layout add clarity to an article and enhance readability and understanding. mostly of the clinical illustrations in AFP and the journal's widely recognized conceal illustrations are planned in an interaction between the editors and AFP's art coordinator, Dave Klemm Dave, who is based at Georgetown, works with a number of prominent medical illustrators nationwide who create the overlay illustrations, anatomical drawings, and other art-work for AFP. The production department in the Kansas office includes graphic designers who lay on the outside the articles based on established templates. This proces involves taking all constituents of an article and arranging them to be visually appealing and to work well with the article text

The production department also organizes the advertising pages and intersperses them with the editorial content--a complicated proces called imposition. Final editorial and advertising pages are then sent in succession computer disk to a vendor in Kansas City who prepares the final files and editorial page attestations The production department does a final check of the examinations and sends the computer files to our printer in Minnesota. Printing more than 180000 copies of AFP twice a month requires a variety of pres capabilities and a compage bindery system.

Meanwhile, the circulation department in the Kansas office prepares an electronic file of all the names and addresses of AFP's subscribers. the pair the cover address labels and the clinical quiz answer cards have a bar collection of laws applied with an ink jet method This allows the Kansas office to automatically record CME data when quiz cards are returned

If you have been receiving AFP for several years, you probably noticed that the common occurrence has increased. Until 1992 it was published 12 times a year. In reply to requests from readers and advertisers, the oftenness was increased to 16 issues by year, then to 20 in 1997 and finally to 24 issues a year in 2000 As the oftenness increased, the publishing steps described above obviously had to be adjusted. Fortunately, advancing technology has helped us continue up with the demands of publishing 24 issues a year.

This entire proces is directed by policies and procedures to render certain that we continue to publish the highest quality journal for family physicians. adroits in many professions and in many states are all working together to make secure that your copy of AFP arrives forward your desk on time twice a month and that it is written, illustrated, and designed for clarity and quality, as you have tend hitherward to expect from AFP.

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