PMN Journals Review Process

Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to the journals of PMN are subjected to peer-review, except Industry News, Perspectives, Letters, and Turfgrass Science and Industry Trends, which are published at the discretion of the editors.

Upon submission, the manuscript to be reviewed is forwarded to the appropriate Technical or Senior Editor who distributes the manuscript to qualified reviewers. Reviewers have 3 weeks to review the submissions and to recommend to the Technical/Senior Editor acceptance, rejection, or acceptance with revisions.

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Applied Turfgrass Science

Crop Managment

Forage and Grazinglands

Plant Health Progress

If a manuscript is rejected, the author may ask the Technical/Senior Editor to reconsider the decision and, if not satisfied with the Technical/Senior Editor's response, may appeal to the Editor/Editor-in-Chief , whose decision is final.

If the manuscript is accepted with revision, the Technical/Senior Editor returns the manuscript to the author. Authors should then make any suggested changes in the article and return it to the Technical/Senior Editor by email or on diskette, fully formatted with italics, subscripts, etc. within 8 weeks. In a cover letter or email message, the author should explain how major criticisms were dealt with and why, if any, criticisms were not accepted. Unless authors have permission from the Technical/Senior Editor for a brief delay in revision, a manuscript requiring more than 8 weeks for revision should be sent to the Editorial Office as a new submission.

The revised article will be reviewed by the Technical/Senior Editor and, if judged acceptable for publication, will be forwarded to the Editorial Office. A staff editor will copyedit the article and prepare an online proof and a list of queries. The URL for the proof and the list of queries will be e-mailed to the author. When a reply to the queries is received by the Editorial Office, the article will be posted to the PMN journal. The date of posting, which will be listed on the article with the digital object identifier, will be the official publication date.

Authors who wish to publish in a journal of PMN must be willing to act on the recommendations of reviewers and editors. The editors provide competent and fair review for every manuscript and aid authors in presenting information in a style appropriate to our audience. Suggested revisions that substantially change the author's intent or appear to be in error may be rebutted with documented explanation in an e-mail or cover letter to the editor when the revised manuscript is returned.