Hi Postgrad Forum,

I'm submitting a CV as part of a grant application (due in a few days) and I'd like some advice about how to describe a journal article I've written.

The article has been through peer review and accepted with minor revisions. I attended a journal article workshop where the instructor said that article can't be described as 'in press' until the managing editor of the journal gives the final approval after receiving the redrafted piece.

As I don't have any other peer-reviewed articles, I'd really like to show that this work has been provisionally accepted but I have no idea what the accepted terminology is. Can I put something like "accepted pending minor revisions"?

Cheeky side question - Can I put draft articles (i.e. not yet submitted for peer review) on my CV under 'Unpublished Work'? Or not bother?

I'd be really grateful for any advice! Thanks :)

Accepted pending minor revisions sounds fine to me. I'd leave the draft work off the cv until it's submitted somewhere, as it looks like padding otherwise, but it's ok to outline what you are working on in a cover letter and say what the target journals are in a paragraph on your research trajectory.

That sounds great, thanks so much for taking the time to respond.

I was at a talk for people applying for fellowships the other day, and one of the speakers said you can actually upload your prepublished article somewhere (can't remember the place - may differ by subject area - research gate?) and put the link for that so that they can read it. Apparently that is even better than saying submitted as they have something tangible.

That's an interesting point. I've heard (but can't say for certain) that there could be copyright issues with that because the journal technically has the copyright or something? I heard from a professor who was giving a talk about journal article publishing that you shouldn't put anything that's unpublished online (e.g. on Academia.edu) as some publishers can consider that 'published' and then be less interested in officially publishing it...it's all quite confusing really!

Wow, that is interesting! It does sound likely. Unless there is one that is specifically for that purpose (pre published work)? I might look into it a bit more as I had planned on doing it! Hope your grant application goes well.

Thanks! :)