One for the refrigerator

My paper is published! I'm an author! Check me out in the current issue of Weed Science. Really, if your institution has a site license and you're eager to be bored silly by a minor and uninteresting study, but a minor and uninteresting study with my name on it, do it! Fortunately they seem to have taken out the offending hyphens.

I've really been wondering how things are going over there in Weed Science Land. I haven't heard anything from the editors since I returned my galleys a few months ago. Their author instructions mention page charges, so I keep checking my mailbox for a bill (for $770), but nothing has come. There's rarely anything in my mailbox on campus. Then, this morning, a labmate who's preparing a manuscript for the same journal (I'm such a trail-blazer) discovered that my paper is in the current issue!

How exciting!

(And here's hoping that the bill for $770 never turns up. Their author instructions has been updated since I submitted, but who knows how accurate it is. It was definitely not accurate when I prepared my manuscript. I followed it's directions closely and was told that all of my references were in the wrong format. Uh.... I quickly informed the editor that it was their instructions that guided my formatting. I'm glad to see that that, at least, has been corrected.)