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• Contact My Editor

  ICS EDIS Editorial Team

  Note: The EDIS journal's masthead lists the current unit editors and approvers, who should be consulted for academic or peer-review related issues.

  • Diana Hagan, Information Management Specialist, (352) 294-3315, dihagan@ufl.edu
  • Heidy Ramirez, Spanish Communications Specialist & Journal Manager, ramirez.heidy@ufl.edu
  • Susan Gildersleeve, EDIS Editor (352) 294-3318, EDISTeam1@ifas.ufl.edu
    • Department of Entomology and Nematology
    • Food and Resource Economics Department
    • School of Forest Resources and Conservation
    • School of Natural Resources and Environment
    • Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
    • Florida Sea Grant Program
  • Amanda Quintos, EDIS Editor, (352) 294-3305, EDISTeam2@ifas.ufl.edu
    • Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
    • Department of Agricultural Education and Communication
    • Agronomy Department
    • Department of Animal Sciences
    • Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences
    • Department of Microbiology and Cell Science
    • College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Gillian McGuire, EDIS Editor, (352) 294-3317, EDISTeam3@ifas.ufl.edu
    • Florida 4-H Youth Development Program
    • Environmental Horticulture Department
    • Food Science and Human Nutrition Department
    • University of Florida Herbarium
    • Horticultural Sciences Department
    • Plant Pathology Department
    • Pesticide Information and Education Program
    • Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences
• Manage Publications
  • Use your Contact Dashboard to manage your sunsetting publications (or even make updates if they are not sunsetting)
  • Authorized users can also manage Ask IFAS topics, units, and collections as editors or contacts.
  • Uses Gatorlink authentication.

  Visit EDIS-Admin
• EDIS Data and Reports

  Reports on publication activity and web traffic are available on the EDIS-Admin website.

  Visit EDIS-Admin

  • Accessing EDIS Publication Annual Statistics
  • 2022 EDIS Stats Report
  • Reporting EDIS Work for T, PS and P
• Submit a Manuscript

  Submitting Manuscripts

  New Publications

  • Start with the EDIS Word Template or reformat your manuscript using EDIS styles before submitting.
  • Ensure you have followed EDIS guidelines for developing Extension publications and own your unit's guidelines as applicable.

  Download the EDIS Word Template

  Submit for Peer Review

  Revisions

  • Start with a copy of your document in the EDIS Word Template. Get the current version from your EDIS-Admin Contact Page or its publication page.
  • Use Track Changes (or Compare the final and original versions at the end)
  • Minor revisions can be uploaded right on the contact dashboard.
  • Submit Major revisions for peer review. 
  • Check with your review editor if you are adding or removing authors, changing the title, or aren't sure if it is major or minor. 

  Go to My Contact Dashboard
• Find a Publication

  Ask IFAS is the public facing website for EDIS, offering a curated collection of our currently supported peer-reviewed articles in HTML and PDF format, discoverable through search or through a network of topic, expert, collection, and unit pages. 

  Visit Ask IFAS

  If a publication is no longer supported, it can probably be found in the archives of the EDIS journal. 

  Search the EDIS Journal Archives

  Older publications and digitized Extension publications that were never on EDIS may also be found in the UF Digital Collection's Cooperative Extension Archives.

  Visit UFDC's UF/IFAS Cooperative Extension Archive
• Writing/Editing Training
  • Writing
    • Writing for EDIS (13:29)
      Susan Gildersleeve, Amanda Quintos & Paul Roberts, May 2021
    • Developing Content for Infographics (21:45)
      Darryl Palmer, Michele Wood &  Heather Griffith, May 2021
    • Writing for EDIS
      Susan Gildersleeve, Amanda Quintos & Paul Roberts, October 2020
    • The New Newsletter: Writing for Newsletters (37:05)  
      Darryl Palmer, May 25, 2016
  • EDIS & Ask IFAS
    • Introduction to the New EDIS: Ask IFAS Platform (33:20)
      Diana Hagan, May 2021
    • EDIS Author Training (1:20:13)
      Diana Hagan, October 2020
    • The EDIS Template: To do, to don't, and why (14:45)
      Susan Gildersleeve, Amanda Quintos, and Paul Roberts, December 2022
  • Copyright & Accessibility
    • Copyright Basics (45:11)  / Copyright Basics Power Point
      Diana Hagan, Spring 2020 
    • Accessibility Strategies for Online Communications (42:57)
      Diana Hagan,Tennille Herron and Al Williamson, Spring 2020 
      Accessibility Strategies for Online Communications Power Point 
      Accessibility-Web-ResourceLinks(.pdf)
• Document Accessibility - ADA Training
  • Introduction
  • InDesign to PDF
    • 10 Tips InDesign and ADA
  • Accessible Word Best Practices Video (opens in new window)
    
    • Accessible Word Best Practices: Script (Word document)
    • Word Accessibility Recommended Resources (Word document)

  • Coming Soon!
    
    • PowerPoint
    • Acrobat