• —A preliminary summary work (abstract or poster) may have already been published before a more complete article
• Complements may include graphic illustrations
• —The more complete version must mention the exact references of the old abridged version
• It must faithfully reflect the data and interpretations of the previous version
• —The results of a search should not be divided into several articles, which lead to a sequence of steps in the research process

• Publishing negative results is very important for the community
• "Don't go down the hall, the door's locked!"
• Save others time and money
• Negative results are intellectually honest and as deserving as positive ones

2 types of error

• Minor 
  • corrected before final acceptance (e.g. during a revision shuttle with the editor)
  • after publication, corrected by an Erratum in a later issue
• Major observed by the readership after publication: will generate at best an Erratum, at worst a Withdrawal, particularly humiliating for a research team
  • Reminder: an experiment is repeated several times to confirm the results. Publishing quickly after a One shot can cause major errors followed by a Withdrawal (seen in Science and Nature in particular)
• If the evolution of science invalidates an earlier thesis, it is obviously not considered as a mistake

• Do not submit a text simultaneously to 2 journals
• Consider very early the possibilities of Open Access (priority Green, if not Gold).
• A first "shuttle" with the editor is almost systematic (revision of the copy). It follows usually 3 steps:
  • Submitted
  • Accepted
  • Published
• Generally after the Accepted step, no correction is possible, or only really minor on the part of the author
• Copyright transfer normally takes place at the stage Accepted
• Reminder: Publishers have only the rights that the authors have explicitly assigned to them
• A refusal is neither humiliating nor unacceptable; it is an opportunity to improve the text then proposed elsewhere
  • A journal does not necessarily consider without interest a text rejected elsewhere; the revised and improved text can even be a "plus"

• This is the letter written for the submission of the article
• Innovation and originality are keys to acceptance
• Include at least one sentence of the type:"To our knowledge, this is the first report showing…"
• Add systematically:
  • "We confirm that this manuscript has not been published elsewhere and is not
    under consideration by another journal."
  • "All authors have approved the manuscript and agree with its submission
    to [titre de la revue destinataire]."
• See also the tab "Where to be published?"