Balisage: The Markup Conference
Paper Selection

We typically receive more submissions for Balisage than we can accommodate on the program. This gives us the opportunity, and the obligation, to select some of them for inclusion on the program and to reject some of the submitted papers.

For consideration for inclusion in the regular program, a draft paper must be submitted according to the rules in the Author Instructions, in XML marked up and valid to the Balisage subset of DocBook.

The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three people, and read by the conference committee. The conference committee will consider the peer reviewer's comments, their own impressions of the submission, and the shape of the overall program in selecting papers.

Authors will receive the comments of peer reviewers in time to revise their papers for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

The preliminary version needs to be complete enough that the reviewers know that the authors have something to say and can and will do a credible job of it. Proposals are rarely accepted if the reviewers say that there wasn't enough in the submission to judge, or if they write "this isn't a paper, it is the promise of a paper. We would have to trust the author to do the heavy lifting before submitting the final paper".