Abstract: Have you ever formatted a manuscript with specific journal guidelines just to have your advisor decide to submit to another journal? Or perhaps your initial submission was rejected. What next? Find a new journal and spend HOURS reformatting to the new journal guidelines. How many hours are lost each year with this tedious work? Here it is proposed that journals in similar fields unite and establish identical formatting guidelines. Will it be easy? No. Will it take compromise? Yes. But your grad students and staff will thank you!
** I’m just trying to fill the rest of the 150 word minimum requirement to be able to submit this abstract. The above abstract is all that is needed for my lightning talk to understand the point of my argument. Come listen to the presentation to hear an expanded understanding of my argument and to join the side of willing to compromise on this issue!**
