Please check the information below before actioning the article to a colleague

Issue

• Have you assigned the article to the online monthly issue? (eg. Online, July 20140

Contact

• Have you searched to see if the author already exist’s in the database?
• Have you created a contact for your author?
• Have you added a photo for the author?
• Have you added the author’s contact email?
• Have you saught permission to include author’s photo and email?
• Have you added the author(s) in the byline section?
• Have you ticked the Email option for corresponding authors?

Categories

• Have you added the source journal (The Pharmaceutical Journal, Clinical Pharmacist, or Tomorrow’s Pharmacist) to categories?
• Have added at least 4 categories that define your article?

Teaser text

• Have you created the teaser text? 
• ALWAYS CREATE teaser text for your files and never pass on through the workflow without a teaser text.

Catchline

• Have you created a catchline for your article?

Standfirst

• has your article got a standfirst.
• ALWASY create a standfirst for the following article types:
  • News
  • Feature
  • Editorial
  • Comment
  • Column (remember that the column article’s catchline appears in the grey box on the top. See here.
  • Q&A
  • Books and arts
  • Obituary
  • Learning
  • CPD
  • Perspective article
  • Review article
  • Practice report
  • Career feature
  • Career Q&A
  • Career profile
• You don’t need to create standfirsts for the following article types:
  • Notice-board
  • Announcement
  • News in brief

Headline

• Have you added the long headline (the first headline) with the right keywords that define your article?
• Have you added the short headline (print headline)?

Article type

• Have you chosen the right article type for your article?

Navigation

• Have you chosen the right navigation item?
  • If the article is to be published in The Pharmaceutical Journal, choose the nav item that corresponds to the article type
  • If the article is to be published in Clinical Pharmacist, Choose Clinical Pharmacist as nav item
  • If the article is to be published in Tomorrow’s Pharmacist, Choose Tomorrow’s Pharmacist as nav item
  • If the article is to be published in Your RPS, Choose Your RPS as nav item
• ONLY ONE NAVIGATION ITEM PER ARTICLE: Have you checked to see only one navigation item is assigned?

Pull quotes

• Have you chosen 1-2 pull quotes for your article?

References

• Have you added the references?
• Have you cross-linked references with reference numbers?

Special report

• Is this article part of a special report?
• Have you chosen the right tag for the special report?

Images

• Have you filled in an image brief for the Art Editor?
• Have you created the proposed caption for images?