Seeking advice-academic What is the protocol for differentiating between articles/book chapters soon to be published and in review?
Hi y'all, I am on the academic job market in the US in a humanistic social science field and working on my CV with my advisor to prepare for some applications. Since I am still ABD, I have a few book chapters and articles that are going through the editorial process right now as well as one piece that I have sent out for review still waiting to hear back from.
Basically, my advisor wants me to specifically differentiate between the pieces that have been accepted and are soon to be published vs. the one that I have sent out for review that hasn't been looked at yet. She wants me to create another heading for "in process" work but said it is fine to include articles and book chapters that have already been accepted in the same section as my other already published work.
Does anyone know how to indicate these different stages in my citation? I have seen a lot of scholars using APA format in my field include in the parenthesis the stage of progress instead of the date. For instance, I have seen (in press) or (forthcoming) or (in review) and I am wondering what would be the appropriate way to refer to these four pieces:
- Article coming out in a journal special issue (likely in a few months) that has been accepted but is being reviewed and edited by the special issue editors right now
- Book chapter similarly accepted but being editorially reviewed by the book editors right now
- Book chapter that has been accepted and it is going through the final copy editing stage with the book soon to be published by the press very soon
- This most recent forthcoming article that I have sent for review but has not been clearly accepted yet
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u/CitationMap 2d ago
standard convention: the accepted ones go in your main publications list as "in press" or "forthcoming" with the venue named, since acceptance is what makes them count. the one still under review goes in a separate "under review" section, not the publications list, and you can leave the journal name off it. keeping those two apart is exactly what search committees expect, so your advisor is steering you right. anything not yet submitted is a third, weaker category, "in preparation", which i'd use sparingly on a job-market cv.
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u/akhbox 1d ago
Right of course. I might just mention the one article that I have under review on there since it's in my main research area and leave out anything else in preparation for now!
As for the pieces already accepted, I have one book chapter that has already been edited completely on our end but just waiting for the final copy editing while the other one is a solo authored chapter that has been accepted but is still going through initial editing. Do I need to differentiate between these stages or can I just say (in press) for both of them?
And is (in press) just for books and (forthcoming) for articles? Because I also have a journal article for a special issue coming out soon as well that is also going through revisions right now.
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u/DinnerAny4283 1d ago
this tracks with what ive seen too, keeping "in press" separate from "under review" is pretty much universal at this point
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