EDITOR RESPONSIBILITIES TOWARD AUTHORS

• Providing guidelines to authors for preparing and submitting manuscripts
• Providing a clear statement of the Journal’s policies on authorship criteria
• Treating all authors with fairness, courtesy, objectivity, honesty, and transparency
• Protecting the confidentiality of every author’s work
• Making editorial decisions with reasonable speed and communicating them in a clear and constructive manner
• Being vigilant in avoiding the possibility of editors and/or referees delaying a manuscript for suspect reasons
• Establishing clear guidelines for authors regarding acceptable practices for sharing experimental materials and information, particularly those required to replicate the research, before and after publication
• Establishing a procedure for reconsidering editorial decisions
• Describing, implementing, and regularly reviewing policies for handling ethical issues and allegations or findings of misconduct by authors and anyone involved in the peer review process
• Informing authors of solicited manuscripts that the submission will be evaluated according to the journal’s standard procedures or outlining the decision-making process if it differs from those procedures
• Clearly communicating all other editorial policies and standards