A thorough review of the submission and peer review process is undertaken in an effort to improve the likelihood that a submitted paper will go on to be published and to give the student an general understanding of the process involved from pre-submission to submission through publication. Topics include: instructions for authors, picking a journal to submit to, the theory and practice of peer review, the peer review process, stages of the peer review process, how to handle rejection, scientific misconduct issues, authorship issues, editorial autonomy, copyright assignment, informed consent and indexing related issues.