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I recently found that in my recent paper published online before print (online first), I missed two important references and an acknowledgement of someone who helped me. What is the best way forward? Anyone had any experience dealing with SAGE? I appreciate any advice on this...

MM Cheng
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    Have you tried writing the editor of the journal? In my experience this is something they are happy to do. – nabla Jul 04 '16 at 16:31
  • In my experience some journals do not allow changes to a paper which has been published online already. In this case the editors might offer to publish an erratum notice. – Christian Jul 04 '16 at 17:44
  • thanks Nabla and user93559. If I email the editor, how soon will they implement the changes? – MM Cheng Jul 04 '16 at 22:44
  • It depends significantly on journal. Some journals actually have separate proofs for the online-first/print editions (don't ask me why, but I have had the experience of having to do effectively two rounds of galley proofing because of that). Some journals the online-first are not copy-edited (just taking your submission and framing it in the journal style and that's it). Some journals the online-first are fully proofed and your manuscript is basically just sitting in a queue waiting to be printed. As you can imagine the response would be significantly different for all. – Willie Wong Jul 05 '16 at 03:35
  • Thanks Willie for your comments. I have contacted the copy editor and they are happy to take the changes but they will not do it until the article is assigned to an issue. This journal has a long queue .. it might take one or two year... So they have to ask the editor for approval to have it assigned to the latest issue. That is a real pain as I do not really want my articles on line without rights reference... – MM Cheng Jul 05 '16 at 05:24
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    Does this answer your question? How do you make corrections to a published paper? – Sursula Aug 30 '22 at 08:58

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