Acknowledging Manuscript Receipt
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Journals should send a notice to authors to acknowledge receipt of their manuscripts and provide names and contact information of relevant editorial staff. For journals with Web-based manuscript ...
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Corrections (Errata)
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Journals should publish corrections (or errata) following errors or important omissions made by authors or introduced by editors, manuscript editors, production staff, or printers.,, According to the ...
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Correspondence (Letters to the Editor)
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
A biomedical journal should provide a forum for readers and authors to participate in postpublication peer review and scientific dialogue and to exchange important information, especially with regard ...
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Disclosure of Editorial Practices, Procedures, and Policies
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Underlying the ethics of editorial responsibility is the need for disclosure of editorial procedures and policies to authors, reviewers, and readers. Typically, these are listed, and explained as ...
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The Editor’s Responsibilities
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
An editor’s primary responsibilities are to inform and educate readers and to maintain the quality and integrity of the journal., Thus, editors are obliged to make rational and consistent editorial ...
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Editorial Audits and Research
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Many journals conduct internal assessments, audits, and research into various aspects of the editorial process. For example, a journal may produce monthly or annual reports from its database of ...
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Editorial Quality Review
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
A final editorial procedure that should be a part of every journal’s operation is quality review. After publication, editorial and production staff and advisers should review each issue for content ...
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Editorial Responsibilities, Roles, Procedures, and Policies
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
I believe the editor is the primary source for ethical responsibility among professional publications. George D. Lundberg, MD Coupled with the autonomy and authority that come with editorial ...
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Editorial Responsibility for Acceptance
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Editors should follow consistent procedures to evaluate papers and make decisions regarding acceptance (see , Editorial Responsibility for Manuscript Assessment). Editors should inform authors of ...
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Editorial Responsibility for Manuscript Assessment
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The editor should establish and maintain procedures and policies for appropriate editorial assessment and decisions to accept, request revision of, and reject mansucripts (see also , Editorial ...
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