Clarifications

There should be a facility for readers to send letters to the editor to discuss particular articles, which may appear in edited form, with replies from the article’s authors, in a later edition.

Successful submission should be acknowledged by a web page, and an email sent to the main contact author, giving details of their login ID and password, which is good for tracking the progress of this article and for selecting other articles to peer-review (see below).

categories for articles

The editor’s main jobs are to ensure the sensible and fair running of the journal; and to publish articles online, once they are of an acceptable quality and the authors have also fulfilled their peer-reviewing obligations. Fair running is explained in the next four points below.

The editor may choose to reject a reviewer’s choice of paper to peer-review (because of a conflict of interest in a closed group of authors and reviewers, who mutually support each other’s work uncritically). In this case, the reviewer must select a different paper to review.

author has 3 review limit? when can the author submit a revision if a review has been cancelled or rejected