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Editorial board duties and membership

The editorial committee of special journal publications is made of the editorial office and editorial board. Editorial officers work in the editorial office to process manuscripts for review either by the editorial board members, or external reviewers. They also receive the reviewed and approved manuscripts and process them for publication. The editorial board is headed by the editor in chief, and their duties are to receive a review and approve manuscripts before it is sent for publication.

Editor in chief works with the editorial team, external professional reviewers, authors, and editorial officers to process a manuscript before it is finally published. In special journal publications, the editor in chief is the highest decision making position vis-à-vis manuscript management and day to day running of the journal. However, administratively, the editor in chief is answerable to the strategic and technical advisory committee (STAC) of each journal. Therefore the duties of the editorial team may include but not limited to the following

The editors of Special Journal of Ecology are responsible for:  

1. the fast and transparent peer review process
2. Providing the final judgment on the articles  
3. The editor should remember the policy of fast and effective peer review and further  process,
4. responsible for any query regarding reconsideration of  
5. selecting potential reviewers
6. responsibility to contact selected reviewers
7. convey the expectations of the journal to the reviewers
8. The editor should keep in mind the time required for reviewing articles
9. If any special issue proposal is submitted to
10. Allow for the timely topics and suggest potential guest Editors
11. Editors should ensure the smooth functioning of the whole process in  
12. Editors should provide time to time input regarding the targeted readers’ Editors should comply with the guidelines and protocols provided by the publishing house.

Editorial duties toward authors include:

1. Providing guidelines to authors for preparing and submitting manuscripts
2. Providing a clear statement of the Journal’s policies on authorship criteria
3. Treating all authors with fairness, courtesy, objectivity, honesty, and transparency
4. Establishing and defining policies on conflicts of interest  
5. Protecting the confidentiality of every author’s work
6. Establishing a system for effective and rapid peer review
7. Making editorial decisions with reasonable speed  
8. Being vigilant in avoiding delaying a manuscript
9. Establishing guidelines for authors
10. Establishing a procedure for reconsidering editorial decisions
11. reviewing policies for handling ethical
12. Ensure timely publication of accepted manuscripts

The following are expected from all authors

• State all sources of funding for research
• approved by the relevant institutional review boards or ethics committees
• Cultured cell lines were authenticated.
• Those regulations concerning the use of animals in research,
• List contributors who meet the journal’s criteria for authorship
• Reveal any potential conflicts.
• Share data or materials needed by other scientists to replicate the experiment.
• Cite and reference other relevant published work on which the submitted work is based.
• Obtain permission from the copyright owner to use/reproduce copyrighted content
• Provide written permission from any potentially identifiable individuals referred to  

Additional expectations from authors

• Provide registration information for clinical trials
• Provide the CONSORT statement, for randomized trials.
• Provide the STARD flow diagram and checklist for diagnostic tests.
• Provide MOOSE guidelines for meta-analyses/observational studies.
• Provide STROBE checklists for cross-sectional observational studies.
• Provide QUOROM guidelines for reporting meta-analyses and systematic reviews  
• Provide MIAME standards for microarray experiments.
• Provide discipline-specific standards for data sharing/archiving.

Editorial responsibilities toward Reviewers

• Assign papers for review to experts
• Establishing a process for reviewers to ensure the manuscript is a confidential
• Reviewers not allowed to use the manuscript content before it is published
• Providing them clear instructions on the scope, content, quality, and timeliness  
• Requesting that reviewers identify any potential conflicts of interest  
• Allowing reviewers appropriate time to complete their reviews
• Requesting frequency that does not overtax any one reviewer
• Finding ways to recognize the contributions of reviewers,