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Notes for Contributors: Timescale

Folk Music Journal is published annually in December. The content is decided at a meeting held thirteen months before publication. In some cases submissions are returned for revision and reconsideration at a subsequent meeting; or, for lack of space, may be held over for a year despite acceptance.

Reviews and other matter are dealt with in a shorter timescale over eleven months.

Material received between September and March can be circulated to the Board for preliminary assessment, so that any comments made can be taken into account before a full assessment is made and decisions taken in November.

March	Any articles received circulated to Board for preliminary feedback
April	Board consider articles
May	Board's comments returned to authors with invitation to submit revised version in September

September	All articles received circulated to Board
October	Board consider articles
November	Editorial Board meeting: decisions made on articles and other content (reviews, obituary)
December	Results (acceptance, rejection, revision) communicated to authors; instruction to provide final copy in March
January	Reviews/obituaries commissioned
March	Final articles sent to Editor
April	Articles prepared for printing
May	Articles sent for printing
June	Reviews etc. sent to Editor; article proofs arrive and sent to authors
July	Article proofs returned to Editor and to printer; reviews etc. sent for printing; cover commissioned
August	Review etc. proofs arrive and sent to authors; second article proofs arrive
September	Review etc. proofs and second article proofs returned to printer, cover artwork delivered; final matter prepared and sent for printing
October	Final proofs arrive and returned
November	Printing and delivery
December	Publication and distribution

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