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Code4Lib Journal Guest Editor Policy

2021-12-08T22:29:53Z

EricHanson:

1. An Editorial Committee (EC) member claims an article as a primary editor and decides that outside expertise is required for a proper review. The EC member reaches out as soon as possible to a potential guest editor so they can participate in the full review process. Ideally, a request is made to a potential guest editor before the acceptance is sent to the author.

2. If the EC member finds the paper covers topic(s) that necessitates expertise outside of the EC, they notify the author of the finding and the guest editor process. The author is also informed that if the guest editor process pushes past the issue deadline, the article will automatically have a preliminary acceptance for the next issue.

3. When requesting a guest editor’s assistance, we emphasize the committee’s volunteer status and that we are requesting their time and energy in the same way that the EC members donate their time and energy. We lay out the expectation that this is not a single read-through but rather a dialogue between them and the author in response to their feedback.

4. After a guest editor accepts, they become a more active second reader for review and editing. The EC member serves as the primary editor, handling the initial author contact, facilitating communication between the author and guest editor, tracking deadlines, and following EC norms.

5. If the guest editor vetoes the article after working with the author, that decision is final in the same way as if an EC member vetoes an article when they are the primary editor. We make it clear to guest editors that the EC will not overrule their recommendation when they do a full review where they are in dialogue with the author.

6. Guest editors will be acknowledged in the editorial of the corresponding issue. Guest editors' participation will also be described in an "Journal Editor's Note" immediately below the "About the Author" section. A Guest editor will not be listed as an article author without the explicit consent of all article authors.

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Code4Lib Journal Guest Editor Policy

2021-12-08T22:26:05Z

EricHanson: Initial policy 12/8/2021

Code4Lib Journal

2021-12-08T22:15:19Z

EricHanson:

* [http://journal.code4lib.org/ Code4Lib Journal] (homepage)
* [[Code4Lib Editorial Committee Introduction]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal Deadlines]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal Voting]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal Guest Editor Policy]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal Publicity Venues]]
* [[Code4Lib Style Guide]]
* [[Code4Lib Corrections]]
* [[Code4Lib Contact and Mailing List Setup]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal Email Templates]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal WordPress Input Guidelines]]
* [[Code4lib Journal Republication Guidelines]]
** [[COinS (layman's description)]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal WordPress Customizations]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal Email Life of an Article]]

<br/>

[[Code4Lib Journal Entries in Directory of Open Access Journals]]

[[Code4Lib Journal PDFs]]

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Code4Lib Journal

2021-12-06T20:25:02Z

EricHanson:

* [http://journal.code4lib.org/ Code4Lib Journal] (homepage)
* [[Code4Lib Editorial Committee Introduction]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal Deadlines]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal Voting]]
* [[Code4Lib Guest Editor Policy]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal Publicity Venues]]
* [[Code4Lib Style Guide]]
* [[Code4Lib Corrections]]
* [[Code4Lib Contact and Mailing List Setup]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal Email Templates]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal WordPress Input Guidelines]]
* [[Code4lib Journal Republication Guidelines]]
** [[COinS (layman's description)]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal WordPress Customizations]]
* [[Code4Lib Journal Email Life of an Article]]

<br/>

[[Code4Lib Journal Entries in Directory of Open Access Journals]]

[[Code4Lib Journal PDFs]]

[[Category: Code4Lib Journal]]

Code4Lib Journal WordPress Input Guidelines

2021-02-10T19:04:11Z

EricHanson:

Please follow the guidelines below when creating or editing Code4Lib Journal articles in WordPress. Enter all articles as "Posts".

==The WP Admin Interface==
To get to WordPress interface for entering an article, choose 'Site Admin' from the footer of any Journal page, login if necessary, and then choose Write//Write Post from the WP admin menus. (Alternatively, go to http://journal.code4lib.org/wp-admin/). If you don't have a WordPress editor login and need one, talk to our web admin (Tom Keays).

==Proofs for Authors==
A read-only login that is shared with authors can be found in the 'Administrivia' tab/worksheet of our Google Docs article tracking spreadsheet.

==Title==
Title, including the subtitle, goes in the "Title" field.

Article titles are in Title Case -- all major words capitalized. The title is followed by an abstract, which will be pulled from the excerpt section lower on the post page, and byline of the form "by Author" or "by Author 1, Author 2, and Author 3".

==Article Content==
The body of the article goes in the "Post" field. Use HTML markup appropriately and semantically, ''e.g.'', <code><em></code> for emphasized text, <code><strong></code> for strongly emphasized text, <code><blockquote></code> when quoting blocks of text. Avoid such monstrosities as <code><font></code> and <code><blink></code>.

===Headings===
The top-level header (<code><h1></code>) is used for the title of the post, so start with second-level headers (<code><h2></code>) for sections of the article,
<code><h3></code> for sub-sections, <code><h4></code> if you need a lower level. <code><h2></code> are in "Title Case" -- all words capitalized, short words (the, a, in, up, over, about) should not be. <code><h3></code> and <code><h4></code> are in "Sentence case" -- only the first word is capitalized. Any header from second- to sixth-level may be used as appropriate.

===Pasting from Word===

If you just paste content from Word into WP, it ends up with REALLY BAD html.
Fortunately, WP has a built-in feature to help with this.
Open the 'advanced toolbar' in editing GUI (right-most link), then click on the paste-from-word icon.
This transforms Word's html into really nice pretty html.
Alternatively, use the [http://www.textfixer.com/html/convert-word-to-html.php Word DOC to HTML converter].

===Figures & Tables===
Figures and tables are centered, placed inside a P or DIV with class of "caption". In general, we bold the figure / table label using the strong tag.

For example:
<pre>
<p class = "caption">
<img src = "....">
<strong>Figure X.</strong> How to Caption an Image.
</p>

<div class = "caption">
<strong>Table X.</strong> How to Caption a Table.
<table>
<tr>...</tr>
</table>
</div>
</pre>
Captions for figures appear beneath the figure, centered, with "Figure X:" in bold, the descriptive text in sentence case, plain text.

Captions for tables and code appear above the table, centered, with "Table X:" in bold, the descriptive text in sentence case, plain text.

===Images and Attached Content===
In-line images should be no wider than 500px. See above section for captioning and image

'''Uploading files manually'''

To upload images or other attached media / files, you will need to upload the content to our ibiblio host site manually.

To do that, sftp to login.ibiblio.org. See the Administrivia tab in the shared "C4LJ Article Tracking" doc for the username and password.

Change directory to:
/public/vhost/c/c4lj/html/media

in there you'll find an "issue1" subdir (or issueX subdir--if you don't, create one or ask for help creating one!). Inside THERE, create a subdir with the last name of the first author, and put all your image and other attached content in there. This sort of url will be used in the "<img src>" tag:
/media/issue1/smith/imagename.png

Add to your img src or a href's as desired. You can use this not just for images, but for extended code attachments, etc. (see below)

'''Uploading media via WordPress'''

Before uploading files to WordPress, you will need to change permissions on the directory where you are putting the files.
# Login to c4ljeditor@login.ibiblio.org. Ask Tom Keays for the password for the c4ljeditor account (or see this [http://groups.google.com/group/c4lj-articles/msg/fad004416f12ac25 post] on c4lj-articles).
# Change the directory to /public/vhost/c/c4lj/html/wp-content/uploads/
# WordPress tries to write the files to /public/vhost/c/c4lj/html/wp-content/uploads/[current year]/[current month]. If the current year or month directory does not yet exist, create them, "mkdir [current year]" or mkdir "[current month]" in the appropriate directory. Creating the directory while logged in makes the owner and group of the directory c4ljeditor and c4lj respectively. Wordpress will create the directories as nobody/nobody.
# Change the permissions on the [current month] directory from 755 to 777, "chmod 777 [current month]".
# In the WordPress editor, click the "Add an Image" button.
# Browse to and select your image/file.
# Click the Upload button.
# File in the Alternate text and Caption fields.
# Select the size of the image you want to display in the article.
# Click "Insert into Post".
# On the ibiblio.org server, change the permissions on the current month's directory back to 775, "chmod 775 [current month]"

==== Video ====

We haven't had too much video, but we just had one (a screencast). The option we used was hosting on archive.org. Upload the video, click on the IA 'pillars' icon on the resulting video on the archive.org page to get an 'iframe' embed code, which works fine in our wordpress html source, and I believe the archive.org infrastructure will take care of translating the video to multiple formats and delivering in the proper format for a given browser. Very convenient.

Include a visible link to the archive.org URL for the individual video page as a caption, so printed or otherwise captured versions of the article will always have that link.

You don't need to use archive.org if you or we figure out a better way, it's just one option that worked very conveniently so far.

===Code===

If code is attached as a file, follow the directions above for attached images, except:

* If there is not a folder for the author, create it, according to the guidelines above for images
* Create a subfolder under the author's folder for "code". Insert code files here
* In the article link to the files using the path format http://path-to-the-server/media/issueNumber/authorname/code/filename (e.g., http://journal.code4lib.org/media/issue1/smith/code/something.pl)

ibiblio also has a PHPS extension, so if you an "s" on the end of .php files it will display the code rather than try to interpret the page:
<filename>.phps

Put all inline code in <code><pre></code> tags.

====Code Highlighting====
If the code is in a supported language, we can do syntax highlighting.

Code samples entered as preformatted text, as in the following example, are automagically color highlighted in Wordpress by the [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/ SyntaxHighlighter] plugin:

<pre>
[sourcecode language='php']
RAW HTML/PHP/XML/Etc. code goes here; change language (in above line) as needed
[/sourcecode]
</pre>

If the language parameter is not set, it will default to "text" (no syntax highlighting). Supported languages include <tt>cpp, c, c++, c#, c-sharp, csharp, css, delphi, java, js, jscript, javascript, pascal, php, py, python, rb, ruby, rails, ror, sql, vb, vb.net, xml, html, xhtml, and xslt</tt>. Pretty much everything except <tt>perl</tt>. For a full list consult: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/

Note: do not surround code with <tt><pre></tt> tags, as the <tt>[sourcecode]</tt> tag itself will generate the necessary HTML.

For more subtleties of code formatting, see this gist from editor Péter Király https://gist.github.com/pkiraly/c48193925ad3806c31ef010b58e8600f

====Ampersand Issues====
We've had some problems with ampersand handling in the sourcecode sections. If you notice extra amp;s in your article, such as "&amp;amp;" and "&amp;amp;amp;", and you're comfortable using only the HTML editor for article entry, try checking the "Disable the visual editor when writing" box on your profile page in the admin.

==Abstract==

Abstracts should be placed in the Excerpt box, displayed a little ways below the "Post" field. If you do not see the Excerpt box, look under "Screen Options" in the top right of the page. Selecting the down arrow will display fields to show on the screen. Make sure that 'Excerpt' is selected. This will display the Excerpt (abstract) input box on the page.

Use HTML markup as appropriate. What you put in this field is what will be distributed in our syndication feed and what will appear before the article as the abstract.

Assigned editors are ultimately responsible for a good abstract. Authors aren't always the best at writing good abstracts for their articles, you should probably revise or even write a new one from scratch as necessary, even when the author has provided one. Some of the abstracts for my assigned articles haven't even mentioned what I consider the most significant features of the article.

Since indexes (like EBSCO) may end up indexing abstracts and not full text (and even full text indexes may weigh abstracts more highly), the abstract should probably include any important terms that should 'hit' on the article, such as key technologies or concepts.

I've found that extracting sentences or clauses from the article itself is a good way to build an abstract that will represent the article as the authors intended. The conclusion section is often a good place to look for such key sentences/clauses.

Final abstracts should be passed by the authors for approval.

==Bibliographies/Endnotes==
Items in a bibliography should be linked to the resource whenever possible.

===Endnotes style and HTML coding===
* Endnote number in text: The number is the link which appears in square brackets. Square brackets themselves are not part of the link. HTML coding for the text: '''[<a id="ref1" href="#note1">1</a>]'''

* The link should work both ways. So, the endnote will link back to the text. HTML coding for the endnote: '''[<a id="note1" href="#ref1">1</a>]'''

==Author Information==

Start off each article with a paragraph stating the name(s) of the author(s). Something simple like "By Jonathan Rochkind". If desired, the author's name can be a link to something appropriate.

End each article with a second-level header that says "About the Author(s)", with class="abouttheauthor" set. Then give a short paragraph about each author. Italicize the author's name when it is first used (for example, "''Foo Bar'' is a librarian at..."). We do want to have some kind of contact information published (personal web page, email address (obscured if desired), etc.) for each author.

There is a box beneath the article-editing box with the label "Author(s)". Anything you put in this field will be treated as the author of the article. This will show up in the ToC and in the syndication feeds. If you don't populate this field, WordPress will use the username of the editor, instead.

==Categories/Tags==
Posts will have "Uncategorized" checked by default. Uncheck that box, and check the box next to the current issue, which will be a subcategory of "Issues." Do not check the "Issues" category. We generally do not add tags, except for Conference reviews

==WordPress Buttons==

;Save
:Saves the article, sets the post status to whatever option is selected in the Publish Status form.
;Publish
:Saves the article, sets the post status to Pending Review and assigns a timestamp to the article.

If an issue is not yet published, setting the post status to "Published" or clicking the "Publish" button will set the article to "Pending Review" status. If the issue is already published, this would actually publish the article.

==WordPress Post Status==
An article has four possible statuses. However, only the first three statuses are available to editors.
;Draft
:Use for not yet complete articles. Only editors can see these.
;Pending Review
:Use for sharing the article with authors. Editors and anyone logged in with user ID 17 (i.e., the author account) can see these. See this [http://groups.google.com/group/c4lj-articles/browse_thread/thread/1231b06c09f1289f post] on c4lj-articles for the login information for the author account (username: author).
;Private
:We don't use this option anymore.
;Published
:A published post is visible to everyone. It is part of the RSS feed. If you're editing an already published post, don't select anything in the post status form, just hit Save.

==Publishing an Issue==

# Let everyone on the c4lj-articles list know you are getting ready to publish (so they can save and close any open articles).
# Log in to WordPress
# Make sure that all articles for the issue have the correct issue category selected and have been set to 'Pending Review'. Make sure that the "Uncategorized" and "Issues" categories are unchecked (only the specific issue should be selected).
# Sanity check: count the number of posts which should appear in the publish list
# Click on Posts -> Issues (on the left side)
# Click on "Publish" for the issue you'd like to publish.
## You'll get a list of every "Pending Review" article in that issue. Make sure the number of articles in the list matches your previous count. Don't see all the articles you think you should see? They could be still in Draft status, or not in the correct Issue category, or still have "Uncategorized" selected, or someone may still have it in edit mode. Go back to the posts list and make any necessary changes, and start from #5 again.
# Drag and drop the article titles until they're in the order you want. The order you see there is the order you'll see on the home page (and probably the opposite of the order you'll see in your feed reader).
## Note: It's the coordinating editor's responsibility to decide what order he or she would like the articles to show up in, and order them appropriately when publishing the issue. In general, we try to put the articles with the widest appeal first, and special types (columns, special reports, book reviews, etc.) at the end.
# Click on Posts -> Categories (on the left side)
# Make sure all three fields for the current issue are filled in and correct:
## The human-readable name of the issue goes into the Name field -- e.g., "Issue 15".
## The date of publication goes into the Description field -- e.g., "2011-10-31".
## The URL name goes into the Slug field -- e.g., "issue15" would give the URL of the issue, http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue15
# Click "Publish Issue" (optionally setting the publication time, first). Setting the time should only have an impact on readers who are not logged into the c4lj site. Editors will be able to see the published articles.
# Go to the Journal front page; check the number of articles is correct (again) and that they are in the right order. If there is a problem, go back to the admin interface, click on Posts -> Issues and click Unpublish for the issue. Make whatever corrections are needed and proceed from #5 again.
# Once the issue is finally published, go to [[Code4Lib_Journal_Entries_in_Directory_of_Open_Access_Journals]] and follow the directions to upload the issue metadata to DOAJ.
# Submit URLS to Internet Archives for harvest ([https://gist.github.com/ruthtillman/fa7562989f299e4904c7fb0448d1fc83#file-waybacksubmit-py Wayback Submission Script] )
# In the article tracking spreadsheet, cut the article rows from the current issue sheet and paste them at the bottom of the "Published" sheet. Delete current issue sheet now that it is empty.
# Send out announcements (see [[Code4Lib_Journal_Publicity_Venues]])
# Update [http://journal.code4lib.org/editorial-committee#coordinating Coordinating Editor] on the Editorial Committee page to state the name of the editor for the next issue.

==Corrections==
See [http://groups.google.com/group/c4lj-articles/browse_thread/thread/8eaabcff2d9c000d/a0aeeb9367fcea5f?lnk=gst&q=errata#a0aeeb9367fcea5f|the editors' list] for how to make corrections. Generally, use an Errata or Correction section at the end with information about the change that was made and have the actual text link down to that section. See also [[Code4Lib_Corrections]]

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Code4Lib Journal WordPress Input Guidelines

2021-02-10T19:03:16Z

EricHanson:

Please follow the guidelines below when creating or editing Code4Lib Journal articles in WordPress. Enter all articles as "Posts".

==The WP Admin Interface==
To get to WordPress interface for entering an article, choose 'Site Admin' from the footer of any Journal page, login if necessary, and then choose Write//Write Post from the WP admin menus. (Alternatively, go to http://journal.code4lib.org/wp-admin/). If you don't have a WordPress editor login and need one, talk to our web admin (Tom Keays).

==Proofs for Authors==
A read-only login that is shared with authors can be found in the 'Administrivia' tab/worksheet of our Google Docs article tracking spreadsheet.

==Title==
Title, including the subtitle, goes in the "Title" field.

Article titles are in Title Case -- all major words capitalized. The title is followed by an abstract, which will be pulled from the excerpt section lower on the post page, and byline of the form "by Author" or "by Author 1, Author 2, and Author 3".

==Article Content==
The body of the article goes in the "Post" field. Use HTML markup appropriately and semantically, ''e.g.'', <code><em></code> for emphasized text, <code><strong></code> for strongly emphasized text, <code><blockquote></code> when quoting blocks of text. Avoid such monstrosities as <code><font></code> and <code><blink></code>.

===Headings===
The top-level header (<code><h1></code>) is used for the title of the post, so start with second-level headers (<code><h2></code>) for sections of the article,
<code><h3></code> for sub-sections, <code><h4></code> if you need a lower level. <code><h2></code> are in "Title Case" -- all words capitalized, short words (the, a, in, up, over, about) should not be. <code><h3></code> and <code><h4></code> are in "Sentence case" -- only the first word is capitalized. Any header from second- to sixth-level may be used as appropriate.

===Pasting from Word===

If you just paste content from Word into WP, it ends up with REALLY BAD html.
Fortunately, WP has a built-in feature to help with this.
Open the 'advanced toolbar' in editing GUI (right-most link), then click on the paste-from-word icon.
This transforms Word's html into really nice pretty html.
Alternatively, use the [http://www.textfixer.com/html/convert-word-to-html.php Word DOC to HTML converter].

===Figures & Tables===
Figures and tables are centered, placed inside a P or DIV with class of "caption". In general, we bold the figure / table label using the strong tag.

For example:
<pre>
<p class = "caption">
<img src = "....">
<strong>Figure X.</strong> How to Caption an Image.
</p>

<div class = "caption">
<strong>Table X.</strong> How to Caption a Table.
<table>
<tr>...</tr>
</table>
</div>
</pre>
Captions for figures appear beneath the figure, centered, with "Figure X:" in bold, the descriptive text in sentence case, plain text.

Captions for tables and code appear above the table, centered, with "Table X:" in bold, the descriptive text in sentence case, plain text.

===Images and Attached Content===
In-line images should be no wider than 500px. See above section for captioning and image

'''Uploading files manually'''

To upload images or other attached media / files, you will need to upload the content to our ibiblio host site manually.

To do that, sftp to login.ibiblio.org. See the Administrivia tab in the shared "C4LJ Article Tracking" doc for the username and password.

Change directory to:
/public/vhost/c/c4lj/html/media

in there you'll find an "issue1" subdir (or issueX subdir--if you don't, create one or ask for help creating one!). Inside THERE, create a subdir with the last name of the first author, and put all your image and other attached content in there. This sort of url will be used in the "<img src>" tag:
/media/issue1/smith/imagename.png

Add to your img src or a href's as desired. You can use this not just for images, but for extended code attachments, etc. (see below)

'''Uploading media via WordPress'''

Before uploading files to WordPress, you will need to change permissions on the directory where you are putting the files.
# Login to c4ljeditor@login.ibiblio.org. Ask Tom Keays for the password for the c4ljeditor account (or see this [http://groups.google.com/group/c4lj-articles/msg/fad004416f12ac25 post] on c4lj-articles).
# Change the directory to /public/vhost/c/c4lj/html/wp-content/uploads/
# WordPress tries to write the files to /public/vhost/c/c4lj/html/wp-content/uploads/[current year]/[current month]. If the current year or month directory does not yet exist, create them, "mkdir [current year]" or mkdir "[current month]" in the appropriate directory. Creating the directory while logged in makes the owner and group of the directory c4ljeditor and c4lj respectively. Wordpress will create the directories as nobody/nobody.
# Change the permissions on the [current month] directory from 755 to 777, "chmod 777 [current month]".
# In the WordPress editor, click the "Add an Image" button.
# Browse to and select your image/file.
# Click the Upload button.
# File in the Alternate text and Caption fields.
# Select the size of the image you want to display in the article.
# Click "Insert into Post".
# On the ibiblio.org server, change the permissions on the current month's directory back to 775, "chmod 775 [current month]"

==== Video ====

We haven't had too much video, but we just had one (a screencast). The option we used was hosting on archive.org. Upload the video, click on the IA 'pillars' icon on the resulting video on the archive.org page to get an 'iframe' embed code, which works fine in our wordpress html source, and I believe the archive.org infrastructure will take care of translating the video to multiple formats and delivering in the proper format for a given browser. Very convenient.

Include a visible link to the archive.org URL for the individual video page as a caption, so printed or otherwise captured versions of the article will always have that link.

You don't need to use archive.org if you or we figure out a better way, it's just one option that worked very conveniently so far.

===Code===

If code is attached as a file, follow the directions above for attached images, except:

* If there is not a folder for the author, create it, according to the guidelines above for images
* Create a subfolder under the author's folder for "code". Insert code files here
* In the article link to the files using the path format http://path-to-the-server/media/issueNumber/authorname/code/filename (e.g., http://journal.code4lib.org/media/issue1/smith/code/something.pl)

ibiblio also has a PHPS extension, so if you an "s" on the end of .php files it will display the code rather than try to interpret the page:
<filename>.phps

Put all inline code in <code><pre></code> tags.

====Code Highlighting====
If the code is in a supported language, we can do syntax highlighting.

Code samples entered as preformatted text, as in the following example, are automagically color highlighted in Wordpress by the [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/ SyntaxHighlighter] plugin:

<pre>
[sourcecode language='php']
RAW HTML/PHP/XML/Etc. code goes here; change language (in above line) as needed
[/sourcecode]
</pre>

If the language parameter is not set, it will default to "text" (no syntax highlighting). Supported languages include <tt>cpp, c, c++, c#, c-sharp, csharp, css, delphi, java, js, jscript, javascript, pascal, php, py, python, rb, ruby, rails, ror, sql, vb, vb.net, xml, html, xhtml, and xslt</tt>. Pretty much everything except <tt>perl</tt>. For a full list consult: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/

Note: do not surround code with <tt><pre></tt> tags, as the <tt>[sourcecode]</tt> tag itself will generate the necessary HTML.

For more subtleties of code formatting, see this gist from editor Péter Király https://gist.github.com/pkiraly/c48193925ad3806c31ef010b58e8600f

====Ampersand Issues====
We've had some problems with ampersand handling in the sourcecode sections. If you notice extra amp;s in your article, such as "&amp;amp;" and "&amp;amp;amp;", and you're comfortable using only the HTML editor for article entry, try checking the "Disable the visual editor when writing" box on your profile page in the admin.

==Abstract==

Abstracts should be placed in the Excerpt box, displayed a little ways below the "Post" field. If you do not see the Excerpt box, look under "Screen Options" in the top right of the page. Selecting the down arrow will display fields to show on the screen. Make sure that 'Excerpt' is selected. This will display the Excerpt (abstract) input box on the page.

Use HTML markup as appropriate. What you put in this field is what will be distributed in our syndication feed and what will appear before the article as the abstract.

Assigned editors are ultimately responsible for a good abstract. Authors aren't always the best at writing good abstracts for their articles, you should probably revise or even write a new one from scratch as necessary, even when the author has provided one. Some of the abstracts for my assigned articles haven't even mentioned what I consider the most significant features of the article.

Since indexes (like EBSCO) may end up indexing abstracts and not full text (and even full text indexes may weigh abstracts more highly), the abstract should probably include any important terms that should 'hit' on the article, such as key technologies or concepts.

I've found that extracting sentences or clauses from the article itself is a good way to build an abstract that will represent the article as the authors intended. The conclusion section is often a good place to look for such key sentences/clauses.

Final abstracts should be passed by the authors for approval.

==Bibliographies/Endnotes==
Items in a bibliography should be linked to the resource whenever possible.

===Endnotes style and HTML coding===
* Endnote number in text: The number is the link which appears in square brackets. Square brackets themselves are not part of the link. HTML coding for the text: '''[<a id="ref1" href="#note1">1</a>]'''

* The link should work both ways. So, the endnote will link back to the text. HTML coding for the endnote: '''[<a id="note1" href="#ref1">1</a>]'''

==Author Information==

Start off each article with a paragraph stating the name(s) of the author(s). Something simple like "By Jonathan Rochkind". If desired, the author's name can be a link to something appropriate.

End each article with a second-level header that says "About the Author(s)", with class="abouttheauthor" set. Then give a short paragraph about each author. Italicize the author's name when it is first used (for example, "''Foo Bar'' is a librarian at..."). We do want to have some kind of contact information published (personal web page, email address (obscured if desired), etc.) for each author.

There is a box beneath the article-editing box with the label "Author(s)". Anything you put in this field will be treated as the author of the article. This will show up in the ToC and in the syndication feeds. If you don't populate this field, WordPress will use the username of the editor, instead.

==Categories/Tags==
Posts will have "Uncategorized" checked by default. Uncheck that box, and check the box next to the current issue, which will be a subcategory of "Issues." Do not check the "Issues" category. We generally do not add tags, except for Conference reviews

==WordPress Buttons==

;Save
:Saves the article, sets the post status to whatever option is selected in the Publish Status form.
;Publish
:Saves the article, sets the post status to Pending Review and assigns a timestamp to the article.

If an issue is not yet published, setting the post status to "Published" or clicking the "Publish" button will set the article to "Pending Review" status. If the issue is already published, this would actually publish the article.

==WordPress Post Status==
An article has four possible statuses. However, only the first three statuses are available to editors.
;Draft
:Use for not yet complete articles. Only editors can see these.
;Pending Review
:Use for sharing the article with authors. Editors and anyone logged in with user ID 17 (i.e., the author account) can see these. See this [http://groups.google.com/group/c4lj-articles/browse_thread/thread/1231b06c09f1289f post] on c4lj-articles for the login information for the author account (username: author).
;Private
:We don't use this option anymore.
;Published
:A published post is visible to everyone. It is part of the RSS feed. If you're editing an already published post, don't select anything in the post status form, just hit Save.

==Publishing an Issue==

# Let everyone on the c4lj-articles list know you are getting ready to publish (so they can save and close any open articles).
# Log in to WordPress
# Make sure that all articles for the issue have the correct issue category selected and have been set to 'Pending Review'. Make sure that the "Uncategorized" and "Issues" categories are unchecked (only the specific issue should be selected).
# Sanity check: count the number of posts which should appear in the publish list
# Click on Posts -> Issues (on the left side)
# Click on "Publish" for the issue you'd like to publish.
## You'll get a list of every "Pending Review" article in that issue. Make sure the number of articles in the list matches your previous count. Don't see all the articles you think you should see? They could be still in Draft status, or not in the correct Issue category, or still have "Uncategorized" selected, or someone may still have it in edit mode. Go back to the posts list and make any necessary changes, and start from #5 again.
# Drag and drop the article titles until they're in the order you want. The order you see there is the order you'll see on the home page (and probably the opposite of the order you'll see in your feed reader).
## Note: It's the coordinating editor's responsibility to decide what order he or she would like the articles to show up in, and order them appropriately when publishing the issue. In general, we try to put the articles with the widest appeal first, and special types (columns, special reports, book reviews, etc.) at the end.
# Click on Posts -> Categories (on the left side)
# Make sure all three fields for the current issue are filled in and correct:
## The human-readable name of the issue goes into the Name field -- e.g., "Issue 15".
## The date of publication goes into the Description field -- e.g., "2011-10-31".
## The URL name goes into the Slug field -- e.g., "issue15" would give the URL of the issue, http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue15
# Click "Publish Issue" (optionally setting the publication time, first). Setting the time should only have an impact on readers who are not logged into the c4lj site. Editors will be able to see the published articles.
# Go to the Journal front page; check the number of articles is correct (again) and that they are in the right order. If there is a problem, go back to the admin interface, click on Posts -> Issues and click Unpublish for the issue. Make whatever corrections are needed and proceed from #5 again.
# Once the issue is finally published, go to [[Code4Lib_Journal_Entries_in_Directory_of_Open_Access_Journals]] and follow the directions to upload the issue metadata to DOAJ.
# Submit URLS to Internet Archives for harvest ([https://gist.github.com/ruthtillman/fa7562989f299e4904c7fb0448d1fc83#file-waybacksubmit-py Wayback Submission Script] )
# In the article tracking spreadsheet, cut the article rows from the current issue sheet and paste them at the bottom of the "Published" sheet. Delete the empty sheet for the current issue.
# Send out announcements (see [[Code4Lib_Journal_Publicity_Venues]])
# Update [http://journal.code4lib.org/editorial-committee#coordinating Coordinating Editor] on the Editorial Committee page to state the name of the editor for the next issue.

==Corrections==
See [http://groups.google.com/group/c4lj-articles/browse_thread/thread/8eaabcff2d9c000d/a0aeeb9367fcea5f?lnk=gst&q=errata#a0aeeb9367fcea5f|the editors' list] for how to make corrections. Generally, use an Errata or Correction section at the end with information about the change that was made and have the actual text link down to that section. See also [[Code4Lib_Corrections]]

[[Category:Code4Lib Journal]]

Code4Lib Journal Deadlines

2019-03-08T19:44:29Z

EricHanson:

''See also [[Code4Lib Journal Voting]]''

== Formula for calculating deadlines ==

A rough guideline based on recent issues:

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|-
! Weeks before
! Task
! Day offset
! On
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-18'''
| Call for proposals
| style="text-align:right" | -126
| Monday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-14'''
| Proposals due
| style="text-align:right" | -94
| Friday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-13'''
| Publication of previous issue
| style="text-align:right" | -91
| Monday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-13'''
| Finish voting on proposals; notify authors
| style="text-align:right" | -87
| Friday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-9'''
| First draft due
| style="text-align:right" | -59
| Friday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-5'''
| Second draft due
| style="text-align:right" | -31
| Friday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''0'''
| Publication
| style="text-align:right" | 0
| Monday
|}

'''Note:''' Week numbers assume week begins on Monday.

'''See also:''' [[Code4Lib_Journal_Email_Templates]] (formerly at [http://groups.google.com/group/c4lj-articles/web/templates-for-email-responses Templates for Email Responses])

== Deadlines for Issues ==
Editors: see also http://tomkeays.com/library/c4ljpubdate/ for Tom's calculator

===Forty-sixth issue===

Coordinating Editor: Sara Amato
* Call for proposals: Monday, July 1, 2019
* Second call for proposals: Monday, July 22, 2019 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, August 2, 2019
* Proposals accepted: Friday, August 9, 2019
* First draft due: Friday, September 6, 2019
* Second draft due: Friday, October 4, 2019
* Publication date: Monday, November 4, 2019

===Forty-fifth issue===

Coordinating Editor: Eric Hanson
* Call for proposals: Monday, April 1, 2019
* Second call for proposals: Monday, April 22, 2019 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, May 3, 2019
* Proposals accepted: Friday, May 10, 2019
* First draft due: Friday, June 7, 2019
* Second draft due: Friday, July 5, 2019
* Publication date: Monday, August 5, 2019

===Forty-fourth issue===

Coordinating Editor: Junior Tidal
* Call for proposals: Monday, December 31, 2018
* Second call for proposals: Monday, January 21, 2019 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, February 1, 2019
* Proposals accepted: Friday, February 8, 2019
* First draft due: Friday, March 8, 2019
* Second draft due: Friday, April 5, 2019
* Publication date: Monday, May 6, 2019

===Forty-third issue===

Coordinating Editor: Peter Murray
* Call for proposals: Monday, October 1, 2018
* Second call for proposals: Monday, October 22, 2018 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, November 2, 2018
* Proposals accepted: Friday, November 9, 2018
* First draft due: Friday, December 7, 2018
* Second draft due: Friday, January 11, 2019
* Publication date: Monday, February 11, 2019

===Forty-second issue===

Coordinating Editor: Andrew Darby
* Call for proposals: Monday, July 2, 2018
* Second call for proposals: Monday, July 23, 2018 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, August 3, 2018
* Proposals accepted: Friday, August 10, 2018
* First draft due: Friday, September 7, 2018
* Second draft due: Friday, October 5, 2018
* Publication date: Monday, November 5, 2018

===Forty-first issue===

Coordinating Editor: Ron Peterson
*Call for proposals: Monday, April 17, 2017
*Second call for proposals: Monday, April 30, 2017 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, May 11, 2017
*Proposals accepted: Friday, May 18, 2017
*First draft due: Friday, June 8, 2017
*Second draft due: Friday, July 6, 2017
*Publication date: Monday, August 6, 2018

===Fortieth issue===

Coordinating Editor: Ruth Kitchin Tillman
*Call for proposals: Friday, December 29, 2017
*Second call for proposals: Friday, January 19, 2018 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Tuesday, January 30, 2018
*Proposals accepted: Tuesday, February 6, 2018
*First draft due: Tuesday, March 6, 2018
*Second draft due: Tuesday, April 3, 2018
*Publication date: Friday, May 4, 2018

===Thirty-ninth issue===
Coordinating Editor: Terry Reese
*Call for proposals: Monday, September 25, 2017
*Second call for proposals: Monday, October 16, 2017 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, November 3, 2017
*Proposals accepted: Friday, November 17, 2017
*First draft due: Friday, December 8, 2017
*Second draft due: Friday, January 5, 2017
*Publication date: Monday, January 29, 2018

===Thirty-eighth issue===
Coordinating Editor: Carol Bean
*Call for proposals: Monday, June 12, 2017
*Second call for proposals: Monday, July 3, 2017 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, July 14, 2017
*Proposals accepted: Friday, July 21, 2017
*First draft due: Friday, August 18, 2017
*Second draft due: Friday, September 15, 2017
*Publication date: Monday, October 16, 2017

===Thirty-seventh issue===
Coordinating Editor: Sara Amato
*Call for proposals: Monday, March 13, 2017
*Second call for proposals: Monday, April 3, 2017 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, April 14, 2017
*Proposals accepted: Friday, April 21, 2017
*First draft due: Friday, May 19, 2017
*Second draft due: Friday, June 16, 2017
*Publication date: Monday, July 17, 2017

===Thirty-sixth issue===
Coordinating Editor: Peter Murray
*Call for proposals: Thursday, December 15, 2016
*Second call for proposals: Thursday, January 5, 2017 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Tuesday, January 17, 2017
*Proposals accepted: Monday, January 23, 2017
*First draft due: Monday, February 20, 2017
*Second draft due: Monday, March 20, 2017
*Publication date: Monday, April 17, 2017

===Thirty-fifth issue===

Coordinating Editor: Ruth Kitchin Tillman

* Call for proposals: Monday, September 26, 2016
* Second call for proposals: Monday, October 17, 2016 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, October 28, 2016
* Proposals accepted: Friday, November 4, 2016
* First draft due: Friday, December 2, 2016
* Second draft due: Friday, December 30, 2016
* Publication date: Monday, January 30, 2017

===Thirty-fourth issue===
Coordinating Editor: Andrew Darby

* Call for proposals: Monday, June 20, 2016
* Second call for proposals: Monday, July 11, 2016 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, July 22, 2016
* Proposals accepted: Friday, July 29, 2016
* First draft due: Friday, August 26, 2016
* Second draft due: Friday, September 23, 2016
* Publication date: Monday, October 24, 2016

===Thirty-third issue===
Coordinating Editor: Ron Peterson

* Call for proposals: Monday, March 14, 2016
* Second call for proposals: Monday, April 4, 2016 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, April 15, 2016
* Proposals accepted: Friday, April 29, 2016
* First draft due: Friday, May 20, 2016
* Second draft due: Friday, June 17, 2016
* Publication date: Monday, July 18, 2016

===Thirty-second issue===
Coordinating Editor: Meghan Finch
* Call for proposals: Monday, December 14, 2015
* Second call for proposals: Monday, January 4, 2016 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, January 15, 2016
* Proposals accepted: Friday, January 22, 2016
* First draft due: Friday, February 19, 2016
* Second draft due: Friday, March 18, 2016
* Publication date: Monday, April 25, 2016

===Thirty-first issue===
Coordinating Editor: Terry Reese
* Call for proposals: Monday, September 21, 2015
* Second call for proposals: Thursday, October 8, 2015 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, October 23, 2015
* Proposals accepted: Friday, October 30, 2015
* First draft due: Monday, November 23, 2015
* Second draft due: Monday, December 21, 2015
* Publication date: Monday, January 25, 2016

===Thirtieth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #30: Carol Bean

* Call for proposals: Thursday, June 11, 2015
* Second call for proposals: Thursday, July 2, 2015 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Monday, July 13, 2015
* Proposals accepted: Monday, July 20, 2015
* First draft due: Monday, August 17, 2015
* Second draft due: Monday, September 14, 2015
* Publication date: Monday, October 19, 2015

===Twenty-ninth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #29: Sara Amato

* Call for proposals: Wednesday, March 11, 2015
* Second call for proposals: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, April 10, 2015
* Proposals accepted: Monday, April 20, 2015
* First draft due: Monday, May 18, 2015
* Second draft due: Monday, June 15, 2015
* Publication date: Monday, July 13, 2015

===Twenty-eighth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #28: Heidi Dowding

Special issue on diversity in library technology.

* Call for proposals: Wednesday, December 10, 2014
* Second call for proposals: Monday, January 5, 2015 (if necessary, adjusted from 31-Dec-2014)
* Proposals due: Monday, January 12, 2015
* Proposals accepted: Monday, January 19, 2015
* First draft due: Monday, February 16, 2015
* Second draft due: Monday, March 16, 2015
* Publication date: Wednesday, April 15, 2015

===Twenty-seventh issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #27: Terry Reese

*Call for proposals: Monday, September 27, 2014
*Second call for proposals: Monday, October 6, 2014 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, October 24, 2014
*Proposals accepted: Friday, October 31, 2014
*First draft due: Friday, November 21, 2014
*Second draft due: Friday, December 19, 2014
*Publication date: Monday, January 19, 2015

===Twenty-sixth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #26: Kelley McGrath

*Call for proposals: Monday, June 9, 2014
*Second call for proposals: Monday, June 30, 2014 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, July 11, 2014
*Proposals accepted: Friday, July 18, 2014
*First draft due: Friday, August 15, 2014
*Second draft due: Friday, September 12, 2014
*Publication date: Monday, October 20, 2014

===Twenty-fifth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #25: Dan Scott

*Call for proposals: Monday, March 10, 2014
*Second call for proposals: Monday, March 31, 2014 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, April 11, 2014
*Proposals accepted: Friday, April 18, 2014
*First draft due: Friday, May 16, 2014
*Second draft due: Friday, June 13, 2014
*Publication date: Monday, July 14, 2014

===Twenty-fourth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #24: Ron Peterson

*Call for proposals: Monday, December 9, 2013
*Call for proposals #2: Monday, December 30, 2013 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, January 10, 2014
*Proposals accepted: Friday, January 17, 2014
*First draft due: Friday, February 14, 2014
*Second draft due: Friday, March 14, 2014
*Publication date: Monday, April 14, 2014

===Twenty-third issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #23: Shawn Averkamp
* Call for proposals: Monday, September 9, 2013
* Call for proposals #2: Monday September 30, 2013 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, October 11, 2013
* Proposals accepted: Friday, October 18, 2013
* First draft due: Friday, November 15, 2013
* Second draft due: Friday, December 13, 2013
* Publication date: Monday, January 13, 2014

===Twenty-second issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #22: Sara Amato
* Call for proposals: Monday, June 10, 2013
* Call for proposals #2: July 5, 2013 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, July 12, 2013
* Proposals accepted: Friday, July 19, 2013
* First draft due: Friday, August 16, 2013
* Second draft due: Friday, September 13, 2013
* Publication date: Monday, October 14, 2013

===Twenty-first issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #21: Terry Reese
* Call for proposals: Monday, March 11, 2013
* Call for proposals #2: Monday, April 1, 2013
* Proposals due: Friday, April 12, 2013
* Proposals accepted: Friday, April 19, 2013
* First draft due: Friday, May 17, 2013
* Second draft due: Friday, June 14, 2013
* Publication date: Monday, July 15, 2013

===Twentieth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #20: [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]]
* Call for proposals:     Monday, December 10, 2012
* Call for proposals #2: Monday, January 7, 2013 (if necessary)
* Proposals due:          Friday, January 18, 2013
* Proposals accepted:     Friday, January 25, 2013
* First draft due:        Friday, February 22, 2013
* Second draft due:       Friday, March 22, 2013
* Publication date:       Monday, April 15, 2013

===Nineteenth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #19: Andrew Darby
* Call for proposals: Monday, September 10, 2012
* Proposals due: Friday, October 12, 2012
* Proposals accepted: Friday, October 19, 2012
* First draft due: Friday, November 16, 2012
* Second draft due: Friday, December 14, 2012
* Publication date: Monday, January 14, 2013

===Eighteenth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #18: Ron Peterson
* Call for proposals: Monday, May 28, 2012
* Proposals due: Friday, June 29, 2012
* Proposals accepted: Friday, July 6, 2012
* First draft due: Friday, August 3, 2012
* Second draft due: Friday, August 31, 2012
* Publication date: Monday, October 1, 2012

===Seventeenth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #17: Tim Lepczyk
* Call for proposals: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
* Proposals due: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
* Proposals accepted: Tuesday, March 6, 2012
* First draft due: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
* Second draft due: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
* Publication date: Friday, June 1, 2012

===Sixteenth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #16: Carol Bean
* Call for proposals: Monday, September 26, 2011
* Proposals due: Friday, October 28, 2011
* Proposals accepted: Friday, November 4, 2011
* First draft due: Friday, December 2, 2011
* Second draft due: Friday, December 30, 2011
* Publication date: Monday, January 30, 2012

===Fifteenth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #15: Tod Olson
* Call for proposals: Monday, June 27, 2011
* Proposals due: Friday, July 29, 2011
* Proposals accepted: Friday, August 5, 2011
* First draft due: Friday, September 2, 2011
* Second draft due: Friday, September 30, 2011
* Publication date: Monday, October 31, 2011

===Fourteenth issue===

* Call for proposals: Monday, March 21, 2011
* Proposals due: Friday, April 22, 2011
* Proposals accepted: Friday, April 29, 2011
* First draft due: Friday, May 27, 2011
* Second draft due: Friday, June 24, 2011
* Publication date: Monday, July 25, 2011

===Thirteenth issue===

* Call for proposals: Monday, December 6, 2010
* Proposals due: Friday, January 7, 2011
* Proposals accepted: Friday, January 14, 2011
* First draft due: Friday, February 11, 2011
* Second draft due: Friday, March 11, 2011
* Publication date: Monday, April 11, 2011

===Twelfth issue===

* Call for proposals: Monday, August 16, 2010
* Proposals due: Friday, September 17, 2010
* Proposals accepted: Friday, September 24, 2010
* First draft due: Friday, October 22, 2010
* Second draft due: Friday, November 19, 2010
* Publication date: Monday, December 20, 2010

===Eleventh issue===

* Call for proposals: Monday, May 17, 2010
* Proposals due: Friday, June 18, 2010
* Proposals accepted: Friday, June 25, 2010
* First draft due: Friday, July 23, 2010
* Second draft due: Friday, August 20, 2010
* Publication date: Monday, September 20, 2010

=== Tenth issue ===

* Call for proposals: Monday, February 15, 2010
* Proposals due: Friday, March 19, 2010
* Proposals accepted: Friday, March 26, 2010
* First draft due: Friday, April 23, 2010
* Second draft due: Friday, May 21, 2010
* Publication date: Monday, June 21, 2010

=== Ninth issue ===

* Monday, November 9, 2009 -- Call for proposals
* Friday, December 11, 2009 -- Proposals due
* Friday, December 18, 2009 -- Finish voting on proposals, notify authors
* Friday, January 15, 2010 -- First draft due
* Friday, February 12, 2010 -- Second draft due
* Monday, March 15, 2010 -- Publication date

=== Eighth issue ===

* Monday, July 27 -- call for proposals
* Friday, August 14 -- proposals due
* Friday, August 21 -- finish voting on proposals; notify authors
* Friday, September 25 -- first draft due
* Friday, October 23 -- second draft due
* Monday, November 23 -- publication

=== Seventh issue ===

* Monday, February 16 -- call for proposals
* Friday, March 20 -- proposals due
* Monday, March 30 -- publication of issue 6
* Friday, March 27 -- finish voting on proposals; notify authors
* Friday, April 24 -- first draft due
* Friday, May 22 -- second draft due
* Monday, June 22 -- publication

=== Sixth issue ===

* Monday, November 10 -- call for proposals
* Friday, December 12 -- proposals due
* Monday, December 15 -- publication of issue 5
* Friday, December 19 -- finish voting on proposals; notify authors
* Friday, January 23 -- first draft due
* Friday, February 20 -- second draft due
* Monday, March 30 -- publication (originally scheduled for March 23)

=== Fifth issue ===

* Monday, August 18 -- call for proposals
* Friday, September 12 -- proposals due
* Friday, September 19 -- finish voting on proposals; notify authors
* Monday, September 22 -- issue 4 published
* Friday, October 17 -- first draft due
* Friday, November 14 -- second draft due
* Monday, December 15 -- publication

=== Fourth issue ===

* Friday, May 16 -- call for proposals
* Friday, June 20 -- extended proposal deadline (originally 6/13, before issue 3 is published)
* Friday, July 18 -- first draft due
* Friday, August 15 -- second draft due
* Monday, September 22 -- publication

=== Third issue ===

* Wednesday February 13th -- call for proposals
* Friday March 14th -- proposals due (after con, before issue 2)
* Friday April 25 -- first draft due
* Saturday June 21 -- publication (tentative)

=== Second issue ===

* Friday November 9th -- call for proposals
* Friday January 11 -- article draft deadline (or Thurs Jan 21, from EM)
* Thursday February 21 -- revisions/second draft deadline
* Friday March 21 -- publication (tentative)

=== First issue ===

* Friday August 31st -- call for proposals
* Friday October 12th -- article draft deadline
* Monday December 17th -- publication

[[Category: Code4Lib Journal]]

Code4Lib Journal Deadlines

2019-03-08T19:44:04Z

EricHanson:

''See also [[Code4Lib Journal Voting]]''

== Formula for calculating deadlines ==

A rough guideline based on recent issues:

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|-
! Weeks before
! Task
! Day offset
! On
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-18'''
| Call for proposals
| style="text-align:right" | -126
| Monday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-14'''
| Proposals due
| style="text-align:right" | -94
| Friday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-13'''
| Publication of previous issue
| style="text-align:right" | -91
| Monday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-13'''
| Finish voting on proposals; notify authors
| style="text-align:right" | -87
| Friday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-9'''
| First draft due
| style="text-align:right" | -59
| Friday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''-5'''
| Second draft due
| style="text-align:right" | -31
| Friday
|-
| style="text-align:right" | '''0'''
| Publication
| style="text-align:right" | 0
| Monday
|}

'''Note:''' Week numbers assume week begins on Monday.

'''See also:''' [[Code4Lib_Journal_Email_Templates]] (formerly at [http://groups.google.com/group/c4lj-articles/web/templates-for-email-responses Templates for Email Responses])

== Deadlines for Issues ==
Editors: see also http://tomkeays.com/library/c4ljpubdate/ for Tom's calculator

===Forty-sixth issue===

Coordinating Editor: Sara Amato
* Call for proposals: Monday, July 1, 2019
* Second call for proposals: Monday, July 22, 2019 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, August 2, 2019
* Proposals accepted: Friday, August 9, 2019
* First draft due: Friday, September 6, 2019
* Second draft due: Friday, October 4, 2019
* Publication date: Monday, November 4, 2019

===Forty-fifth issue===

Coordinating Editor: '''Eric Hanson'''
* Call for proposals: Monday, April 1, 2019
* Second call for proposals: Monday, April 22, 2019 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, May 3, 2019
* Proposals accepted: Friday, May 10, 2019
* First draft due: Friday, June 7, 2019
* Second draft due: Friday, July 5, 2019
* Publication date: Monday, August 5, 2019

===Forty-fourth issue===

Coordinating Editor: Junior Tidal
* Call for proposals: Monday, December 31, 2018
* Second call for proposals: Monday, January 21, 2019 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, February 1, 2019
* Proposals accepted: Friday, February 8, 2019
* First draft due: Friday, March 8, 2019
* Second draft due: Friday, April 5, 2019
* Publication date: Monday, May 6, 2019

===Forty-third issue===

Coordinating Editor: Peter Murray
* Call for proposals: Monday, October 1, 2018
* Second call for proposals: Monday, October 22, 2018 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, November 2, 2018
* Proposals accepted: Friday, November 9, 2018
* First draft due: Friday, December 7, 2018
* Second draft due: Friday, January 11, 2019
* Publication date: Monday, February 11, 2019

===Forty-second issue===

Coordinating Editor: Andrew Darby
* Call for proposals: Monday, July 2, 2018
* Second call for proposals: Monday, July 23, 2018 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, August 3, 2018
* Proposals accepted: Friday, August 10, 2018
* First draft due: Friday, September 7, 2018
* Second draft due: Friday, October 5, 2018
* Publication date: Monday, November 5, 2018

===Forty-first issue===

Coordinating Editor: Ron Peterson
*Call for proposals: Monday, April 17, 2017
*Second call for proposals: Monday, April 30, 2017 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, May 11, 2017
*Proposals accepted: Friday, May 18, 2017
*First draft due: Friday, June 8, 2017
*Second draft due: Friday, July 6, 2017
*Publication date: Monday, August 6, 2018

===Fortieth issue===

Coordinating Editor: Ruth Kitchin Tillman
*Call for proposals: Friday, December 29, 2017
*Second call for proposals: Friday, January 19, 2018 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Tuesday, January 30, 2018
*Proposals accepted: Tuesday, February 6, 2018
*First draft due: Tuesday, March 6, 2018
*Second draft due: Tuesday, April 3, 2018
*Publication date: Friday, May 4, 2018

===Thirty-ninth issue===
Coordinating Editor: Terry Reese
*Call for proposals: Monday, September 25, 2017
*Second call for proposals: Monday, October 16, 2017 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, November 3, 2017
*Proposals accepted: Friday, November 17, 2017
*First draft due: Friday, December 8, 2017
*Second draft due: Friday, January 5, 2017
*Publication date: Monday, January 29, 2018

===Thirty-eighth issue===
Coordinating Editor: Carol Bean
*Call for proposals: Monday, June 12, 2017
*Second call for proposals: Monday, July 3, 2017 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, July 14, 2017
*Proposals accepted: Friday, July 21, 2017
*First draft due: Friday, August 18, 2017
*Second draft due: Friday, September 15, 2017
*Publication date: Monday, October 16, 2017

===Thirty-seventh issue===
Coordinating Editor: Sara Amato
*Call for proposals: Monday, March 13, 2017
*Second call for proposals: Monday, April 3, 2017 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, April 14, 2017
*Proposals accepted: Friday, April 21, 2017
*First draft due: Friday, May 19, 2017
*Second draft due: Friday, June 16, 2017
*Publication date: Monday, July 17, 2017

===Thirty-sixth issue===
Coordinating Editor: Peter Murray
*Call for proposals: Thursday, December 15, 2016
*Second call for proposals: Thursday, January 5, 2017 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Tuesday, January 17, 2017
*Proposals accepted: Monday, January 23, 2017
*First draft due: Monday, February 20, 2017
*Second draft due: Monday, March 20, 2017
*Publication date: Monday, April 17, 2017

===Thirty-fifth issue===

Coordinating Editor: Ruth Kitchin Tillman

* Call for proposals: Monday, September 26, 2016
* Second call for proposals: Monday, October 17, 2016 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, October 28, 2016
* Proposals accepted: Friday, November 4, 2016
* First draft due: Friday, December 2, 2016
* Second draft due: Friday, December 30, 2016
* Publication date: Monday, January 30, 2017

===Thirty-fourth issue===
Coordinating Editor: Andrew Darby

* Call for proposals: Monday, June 20, 2016
* Second call for proposals: Monday, July 11, 2016 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, July 22, 2016
* Proposals accepted: Friday, July 29, 2016
* First draft due: Friday, August 26, 2016
* Second draft due: Friday, September 23, 2016
* Publication date: Monday, October 24, 2016

===Thirty-third issue===
Coordinating Editor: Ron Peterson

* Call for proposals: Monday, March 14, 2016
* Second call for proposals: Monday, April 4, 2016 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, April 15, 2016
* Proposals accepted: Friday, April 29, 2016
* First draft due: Friday, May 20, 2016
* Second draft due: Friday, June 17, 2016
* Publication date: Monday, July 18, 2016

===Thirty-second issue===
Coordinating Editor: Meghan Finch
* Call for proposals: Monday, December 14, 2015
* Second call for proposals: Monday, January 4, 2016 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, January 15, 2016
* Proposals accepted: Friday, January 22, 2016
* First draft due: Friday, February 19, 2016
* Second draft due: Friday, March 18, 2016
* Publication date: Monday, April 25, 2016

===Thirty-first issue===
Coordinating Editor: Terry Reese
* Call for proposals: Monday, September 21, 2015
* Second call for proposals: Thursday, October 8, 2015 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, October 23, 2015
* Proposals accepted: Friday, October 30, 2015
* First draft due: Monday, November 23, 2015
* Second draft due: Monday, December 21, 2015
* Publication date: Monday, January 25, 2016

===Thirtieth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #30: Carol Bean

* Call for proposals: Thursday, June 11, 2015
* Second call for proposals: Thursday, July 2, 2015 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Monday, July 13, 2015
* Proposals accepted: Monday, July 20, 2015
* First draft due: Monday, August 17, 2015
* Second draft due: Monday, September 14, 2015
* Publication date: Monday, October 19, 2015

===Twenty-ninth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #29: Sara Amato

* Call for proposals: Wednesday, March 11, 2015
* Second call for proposals: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, April 10, 2015
* Proposals accepted: Monday, April 20, 2015
* First draft due: Monday, May 18, 2015
* Second draft due: Monday, June 15, 2015
* Publication date: Monday, July 13, 2015

===Twenty-eighth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #28: Heidi Dowding

Special issue on diversity in library technology.

* Call for proposals: Wednesday, December 10, 2014
* Second call for proposals: Monday, January 5, 2015 (if necessary, adjusted from 31-Dec-2014)
* Proposals due: Monday, January 12, 2015
* Proposals accepted: Monday, January 19, 2015
* First draft due: Monday, February 16, 2015
* Second draft due: Monday, March 16, 2015
* Publication date: Wednesday, April 15, 2015

===Twenty-seventh issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #27: Terry Reese

*Call for proposals: Monday, September 27, 2014
*Second call for proposals: Monday, October 6, 2014 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, October 24, 2014
*Proposals accepted: Friday, October 31, 2014
*First draft due: Friday, November 21, 2014
*Second draft due: Friday, December 19, 2014
*Publication date: Monday, January 19, 2015

===Twenty-sixth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #26: Kelley McGrath

*Call for proposals: Monday, June 9, 2014
*Second call for proposals: Monday, June 30, 2014 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, July 11, 2014
*Proposals accepted: Friday, July 18, 2014
*First draft due: Friday, August 15, 2014
*Second draft due: Friday, September 12, 2014
*Publication date: Monday, October 20, 2014

===Twenty-fifth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #25: Dan Scott

*Call for proposals: Monday, March 10, 2014
*Second call for proposals: Monday, March 31, 2014 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, April 11, 2014
*Proposals accepted: Friday, April 18, 2014
*First draft due: Friday, May 16, 2014
*Second draft due: Friday, June 13, 2014
*Publication date: Monday, July 14, 2014

===Twenty-fourth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #24: Ron Peterson

*Call for proposals: Monday, December 9, 2013
*Call for proposals #2: Monday, December 30, 2013 (if necessary)
*Proposals due: Friday, January 10, 2014
*Proposals accepted: Friday, January 17, 2014
*First draft due: Friday, February 14, 2014
*Second draft due: Friday, March 14, 2014
*Publication date: Monday, April 14, 2014

===Twenty-third issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #23: Shawn Averkamp
* Call for proposals: Monday, September 9, 2013
* Call for proposals #2: Monday September 30, 2013 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, October 11, 2013
* Proposals accepted: Friday, October 18, 2013
* First draft due: Friday, November 15, 2013
* Second draft due: Friday, December 13, 2013
* Publication date: Monday, January 13, 2014

===Twenty-second issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #22: Sara Amato
* Call for proposals: Monday, June 10, 2013
* Call for proposals #2: July 5, 2013 (if necessary)
* Proposals due: Friday, July 12, 2013
* Proposals accepted: Friday, July 19, 2013
* First draft due: Friday, August 16, 2013
* Second draft due: Friday, September 13, 2013
* Publication date: Monday, October 14, 2013

===Twenty-first issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #21: Terry Reese
* Call for proposals: Monday, March 11, 2013
* Call for proposals #2: Monday, April 1, 2013
* Proposals due: Friday, April 12, 2013
* Proposals accepted: Friday, April 19, 2013
* First draft due: Friday, May 17, 2013
* Second draft due: Friday, June 14, 2013
* Publication date: Monday, July 15, 2013

===Twentieth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #20: [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]]
* Call for proposals:     Monday, December 10, 2012
* Call for proposals #2: Monday, January 7, 2013 (if necessary)
* Proposals due:          Friday, January 18, 2013
* Proposals accepted:     Friday, January 25, 2013
* First draft due:        Friday, February 22, 2013
* Second draft due:       Friday, March 22, 2013
* Publication date:       Monday, April 15, 2013

===Nineteenth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #19: Andrew Darby
* Call for proposals: Monday, September 10, 2012
* Proposals due: Friday, October 12, 2012
* Proposals accepted: Friday, October 19, 2012
* First draft due: Friday, November 16, 2012
* Second draft due: Friday, December 14, 2012
* Publication date: Monday, January 14, 2013

===Eighteenth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #18: Ron Peterson
* Call for proposals: Monday, May 28, 2012
* Proposals due: Friday, June 29, 2012
* Proposals accepted: Friday, July 6, 2012
* First draft due: Friday, August 3, 2012
* Second draft due: Friday, August 31, 2012
* Publication date: Monday, October 1, 2012

===Seventeenth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #17: Tim Lepczyk
* Call for proposals: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
* Proposals due: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
* Proposals accepted: Tuesday, March 6, 2012
* First draft due: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
* Second draft due: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
* Publication date: Friday, June 1, 2012

===Sixteenth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #16: Carol Bean
* Call for proposals: Monday, September 26, 2011
* Proposals due: Friday, October 28, 2011
* Proposals accepted: Friday, November 4, 2011
* First draft due: Friday, December 2, 2011
* Second draft due: Friday, December 30, 2011
* Publication date: Monday, January 30, 2012

===Fifteenth issue===
Coordinating editor for issue #15: Tod Olson
* Call for proposals: Monday, June 27, 2011
* Proposals due: Friday, July 29, 2011
* Proposals accepted: Friday, August 5, 2011
* First draft due: Friday, September 2, 2011
* Second draft due: Friday, September 30, 2011
* Publication date: Monday, October 31, 2011

===Fourteenth issue===

* Call for proposals: Monday, March 21, 2011
* Proposals due: Friday, April 22, 2011
* Proposals accepted: Friday, April 29, 2011
* First draft due: Friday, May 27, 2011
* Second draft due: Friday, June 24, 2011
* Publication date: Monday, July 25, 2011

===Thirteenth issue===

* Call for proposals: Monday, December 6, 2010
* Proposals due: Friday, January 7, 2011
* Proposals accepted: Friday, January 14, 2011
* First draft due: Friday, February 11, 2011
* Second draft due: Friday, March 11, 2011
* Publication date: Monday, April 11, 2011

===Twelfth issue===

* Call for proposals: Monday, August 16, 2010
* Proposals due: Friday, September 17, 2010
* Proposals accepted: Friday, September 24, 2010
* First draft due: Friday, October 22, 2010
* Second draft due: Friday, November 19, 2010
* Publication date: Monday, December 20, 2010

===Eleventh issue===

* Call for proposals: Monday, May 17, 2010
* Proposals due: Friday, June 18, 2010
* Proposals accepted: Friday, June 25, 2010
* First draft due: Friday, July 23, 2010
* Second draft due: Friday, August 20, 2010
* Publication date: Monday, September 20, 2010

=== Tenth issue ===

* Call for proposals: Monday, February 15, 2010
* Proposals due: Friday, March 19, 2010
* Proposals accepted: Friday, March 26, 2010
* First draft due: Friday, April 23, 2010
* Second draft due: Friday, May 21, 2010
* Publication date: Monday, June 21, 2010

=== Ninth issue ===

* Monday, November 9, 2009 -- Call for proposals
* Friday, December 11, 2009 -- Proposals due
* Friday, December 18, 2009 -- Finish voting on proposals, notify authors
* Friday, January 15, 2010 -- First draft due
* Friday, February 12, 2010 -- Second draft due
* Monday, March 15, 2010 -- Publication date

=== Eighth issue ===

* Monday, July 27 -- call for proposals
* Friday, August 14 -- proposals due
* Friday, August 21 -- finish voting on proposals; notify authors
* Friday, September 25 -- first draft due
* Friday, October 23 -- second draft due
* Monday, November 23 -- publication

=== Seventh issue ===

* Monday, February 16 -- call for proposals
* Friday, March 20 -- proposals due
* Monday, March 30 -- publication of issue 6
* Friday, March 27 -- finish voting on proposals; notify authors
* Friday, April 24 -- first draft due
* Friday, May 22 -- second draft due
* Monday, June 22 -- publication

=== Sixth issue ===

* Monday, November 10 -- call for proposals
* Friday, December 12 -- proposals due
* Monday, December 15 -- publication of issue 5
* Friday, December 19 -- finish voting on proposals; notify authors
* Friday, January 23 -- first draft due
* Friday, February 20 -- second draft due
* Monday, March 30 -- publication (originally scheduled for March 23)

=== Fifth issue ===

* Monday, August 18 -- call for proposals
* Friday, September 12 -- proposals due
* Friday, September 19 -- finish voting on proposals; notify authors
* Monday, September 22 -- issue 4 published
* Friday, October 17 -- first draft due
* Friday, November 14 -- second draft due
* Monday, December 15 -- publication

=== Fourth issue ===

* Friday, May 16 -- call for proposals
* Friday, June 20 -- extended proposal deadline (originally 6/13, before issue 3 is published)
* Friday, July 18 -- first draft due
* Friday, August 15 -- second draft due
* Monday, September 22 -- publication

=== Third issue ===

* Wednesday February 13th -- call for proposals
* Friday March 14th -- proposals due (after con, before issue 2)
* Friday April 25 -- first draft due
* Saturday June 21 -- publication (tentative)

=== Second issue ===

* Friday November 9th -- call for proposals
* Friday January 11 -- article draft deadline (or Thurs Jan 21, from EM)
* Thursday February 21 -- revisions/second draft deadline
* Friday March 21 -- publication (tentative)

=== First issue ===

* Friday August 31st -- call for proposals
* Friday October 12th -- article draft deadline
* Monday December 17th -- publication

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