BJRD’s editorial process protects scholarly quality, confidentiality, fairness, ethical compliance, and editorial independence.
Process Overview
Submitted manuscripts pass through technical checking, initial editorial screening, peer review where appropriate, editorial decision-making, revision, final checks, copyediting, typesetting, proof review, and publication. The process is coordinated by the editorial office under the academic oversight of the Editor-in-Chief.
Technical Check
The Managing Editor checks submissions for completeness, anonymisation, formatting, ethical declarations, conflicts of interest, funding statements, data availability statements, and plagiarism or similarity concerns. Incomplete or poorly prepared submissions may be returned before review.
Initial Editorial Screening
Editors assess whether the manuscript fits BJRD’s aims and scope, is sufficiently developed, has potential scholarly contribution, and meets minimum ethical and editorial standards. Manuscripts outside scope or not ready for review may be declined without external review.
Review and Decision
Reviewable manuscripts are normally sent to at least two independent reviewers. Reviewer recommendations are advisory. The Editor-in-Chief or delegated handling editor makes decisions based on reviewer advice, scholarly merit, originality, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, clarity, and fit with BJRD.
Production
Accepted manuscripts are prepared for copyediting, typesetting, proof correction, layout, and publication. The Production Editor ensures consistency in format, style, metadata, issue structure, article presentation, declarations, author information, abstracts, references, and licensing statements.
Records
The editorial office must maintain accurate records of submissions, reviewer invitations, review reports, editorial decisions, author responses, ethics concerns, complaints, appeals, publication schedules, and post-publication notices.
