This working session aims to introduce doctoral students, early career researchers and anyone interested in publishing for academic journals to some general principles for publishing, and, more specifically, to consider the requirements for publishing in the Journal of Psychosocial Studies. Drawing on the experience of the editors in relation to the requirements of the Journal, and doctoral students, in relation to their own experience of getting published, we aim to engage in a dialogue with prospective contributors to encourage and support this sometime daunting pursuit. We offered a similar session by request online in Dec 2023, which was well attended and deemed useful by participants. We hope this would make a practical contribution to the conference and those attending who might be near the beginning of processes of knowledge dissemination.