Editors are responsible for fair, confidential, timely, independent, and ethically sound handling of manuscripts.
Core Principles
Editors must act with integrity, confidentiality, impartiality, professionalism, and respect for authors, reviewers, readers, and research participants. Editorial decisions must be based on scholarly merit, originality, methodological rigour, ethical compliance, clarity, and relevance to BJRD.
Editor-in-Chief
The Editor-in-Chief provides overall academic leadership and has final responsibility for editorial standards, editorial independence, publication ethics, and the integrity of the scholarly record. The Editor-in-Chief makes final editorial decisions, except where recusal is required, and leads or delegates responses to ethical allegations, complaints, appeals, and post-publication concerns.
Managing Editor
The Managing Editor coordinates manuscript submission, initial screening, peer review, revision, copyediting, and publication workflows; checks submissions for completeness and declarations; identifies qualified reviewers; maintains records; monitors timelines; and supports implementation of journal policies.
Production Editor
The Production Editor prepares accepted manuscripts for copyediting, typesetting, proof correction, layout, and publication. The Production Editor ensures consistency in format, metadata, issue structure, article presentation, declarations, licensing statements, and publication files.
Recusal
Editors must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts where they have an actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest. The manuscript must be handled by an independent editor or designated Editorial Board member with no conflict of interest, and the recusal must be documented internally.
