In this workshop, Simon Chapman and Melanie Wakefield, Editor and Deputy Editor of Tobacco Control, will take participants through the day-to-day of research publication from the editors' perspective. They will give participants a guided tour through a typical week of decision-making in a specialist journal, covering topics like the tyranny of unyielding submissions coming up against limited space; the importance of journal selection; how to make your paper get through the first hurdle of getting into review (more than 50% of all submissions are rejected without review); and common pitfalls for authors.

They will simulate a typical editorial committee, using disguised titles, authors and abstracts from papers recently submitted to Tobacco Control, inviting participants to join them in decision-making about the fate of papers.