CM Credits for Authoring an Article

Authoring Basics

For every two-year CM reporting period, AICP members may claim up to 16 credits (8 CM credits per article, regardless of length) for authoring published, planning-related journal articles that are double-blind peer-reviewed. Authoring other types of articles or books will not qualify for the authoring credit.
- A double-blind peer-reviewed article is one in which the names of the reviewer(s) are not known to the author, and vice versa.

New members: For credits to be applied to your first two-year reporting period, the article must be published:
- on or after a member's AICP start date (the date that AICP dues are paid and processed and access to the CM member log is granted), and
- prior to the end of the four-month grace period extending to April 30.
For those members whose two-year reporting period began January 1, 2008, articles published as early as April 14, 2007, may be claimed for CM credits.
Members will be able to edit and delete their claims for authoring an article from their CM log.
While these credits will be added automatically to the CM log, staff will review them and may request further documentation.
Credit may be claimed only for journal articles that are double-blind peer-reviewed. Authoring other types of articles or books will not qualify for the authoring credit.
Only general CM credit will be awarded and not ethics or law credits.