Strengthening Your Submissions to HRDQ: Advice from the Managing Editor

• Published date: 01 March 2014
• Date: 01 March 2014
• Author: Mary Lynn Lunn
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21179

Strengthening Your Submissions

to HRDQ: Advice from the

Managing Editor

Mary Lynn Lunn

This Forum piece is intended to offer some practical and prescribed guidelines

for submitting manuscripts to HRDQ. This advice from the HRDQ Managing

Editor is shared in order to help clarify the contributor guidelines and

improve the chances of submissions, of both new and previous contributors,

being placed under review at HRDQ. This article explains the peer-review

process and describes the characteristics of a successful submission.

Key Words: Human Resource Development Quarterly (HRDQ), HRDQ

Contributor Guidelines, submitting manuscripts to HRDQ, peer-review process,

refereed research articles

The mission of Human Resource Development Quarterly (HRDQ) is to provide

an avenue for disseminating empirical research addressing HRD issues. The

editorial team of HRDQ relies on high-quality contributions from scholars and

practitioners, with expertise in HRD, from within the HRD fi eld and other

related disciplines such as HRM, management, psychology, and organization

behavior, to sustain the journal. We would like to take this opportunity to

thank all of the authors, reviewers, and editorial board members who have

contributed their time and expertise to HRDQ over the years and hope that

our team can rely on your continued support of the journal.

As a new year begins, we would like to encourage all of you who have

previously submitted manuscripts to HRDQ and those who may be less famil-

iar with HRDQ to consider HRDQ as a publication venue for your research.

Recently, we have received a number of queries from prospective authors

regarding the guidelines for submission and the types of articles that are of

interest to and considered by HRDQ. As managing editor for HRDQ, I would

like to offer some advice for both prospective and previous contributors with

the intention of helping to improve the chances of a submission being placed

FORUM

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