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This “A day in the life” actually takes place over the six months between editions of this journal, in order to give a flavour of the process involved in producing it.
Carine: Hi Annie, it's the July deadline for us to have received the conference papers from May. Have you received any? I got one from the brilliant French man's talk but nothing else.
Annie: Hi Carine, no I have not heard a dicky bird.
Carine: Oh no! Here we go again. You know, we sent all the plenary speakers a notification in January asking them to please have their conference talks prepared for publishing so their minds would be fresh and there would be no time pressure for them or us.
Annie: Well, the only saving grace is that they will have been peer-reviewed by the conference audience and feedback so at least we won't have all that curfuffle to deal with—all that to-ing and fro-ing of emails, pleading for peerreview commentaries and decisions and hearing nothing back for weeks, months even.
Carine: Yeah, you're right, but we will still have to figure out how to politely request authors to send us their articles and extend the deadline—again!
Carine: Heard from anyone Annie?
Annie: Nope. The thing is, it always works out in the end but goodness me it is bloody stressful.
Carine: Yeah. Not only that, but we are back having to do it all manually as that publisher system for submissions and communications has been disastrous. Do you remember last year, we were feeding it all into the system, then taking it out to really be able to work on the articles and then feeding it back in to make it look as if the system worked.
Annie: Yep—well at least we don't have all that palaver to go through anymore and we just stick to the old-fashioned system.