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JAFSCD Query Form for Briefs

Thank you for considering the Journal for Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development for publishing your work!

Instructions

Use this form to let JAFSCD Editors know you are interested in submitting a JAFSCD Program, Policy, and Practice BRIEF. Editors will conduct a presubmission review of your manuscript to determine whether the submission is topically appropriate for JAFSCD and ready for peer review. You will hear from us by email within a few days with feedback. If the brief is topically appropriate, we will follow up with you about the next steps in the process of preparing and submitting a brief.

Before filling out this form, be sure to read the JAFSCD Brief Guidelines HERE https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/Briefs_Guidelines.

The general process for submitting, reviewing, and publishing Briefs is as follows:
1. Lead author talks to prospective co-authors.
2. Lead author submits this query form for presubmission review.
3. Associate Editor will invite submission (if appropriate).
4. Peer review will take about 2 weeks.
5. Associate Editor will inform corresponding author if the work is accepted or if it needs another round of reviews.
6. Once accepted, the brief will be copyedited and formatted, then published.

PLEASE NOTE: We are now requiring all prospective authors who are not affiliated with a shareholding library, institution, or organization to become individual shareholding members of JAFSCD. You do not have to pay for the privilege of membership (although a donation of $25 is requested). Regardless of payment, your membership puts you into our mailing list so you will receive our weekly JAFSCD News Flash and it also allows you to participate in the JAFSCD General Annual Meeting (held in the spring of each year). To become an individual shareholder go to https://jafscdcommunity.org and click on "Become a JAFSCD Individual Shareholder” and complete the form you find there.

If you have any questions or concerns, contact Duncan Hilchey: duncan@lysoncenter.org
1.FOR OFFICE USE ONLY:
2.Corresponding author:(Required.)
3.Organizational affiliation (if any):(Required.)
4.Email (please type with care!)(Required.)
5.Proposed Brief's Title:(Required.)
6.Co-authors and their affiliations. (Note that each author's affiliation when the work was conducted should be in their byline. If their affiliation has since changed, please note this in the "author details" of your manuscript.)
7.Please explain why this topic warrants a JAFSCD Brief?

In no more than 250 words, explain how your proposed Brief represents the current state of the art in a program, policy, or practice. Describe:
  • What is new, emerging, or especially significant about this topic.
  • Why this knowledge is timely and important.
  • How the Brief will synthesize lessons or evidence that can inform decision-making beyond a single case or organization.
8.A draft of the brief is not necessary but If you have a draft or an outline, feel free to upload it here:
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