Codon Publications Journal regularly invite potential Guest Editors via email for select topics suggested by the Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board members of the Journal.
Codon Publications Journals are committed to publishing rigorous, authoritative research and review articles. These are offered only to experienced and rigorous author-reviewers to further develop their careers.
Our aim is to produce a Special Collection that covers its topic effectively and reflects positively upon the Guest Editors and the journal. If you are an experienced author or reviewer, the editors would be very pleased to consider a Proposal from you.
They will take the lead in selecting the scope of articles for a Special Issue of their choice. They would not be expected to carry out desk rejects on poor quality or out-of-scope submissions or to select reviewers. However, once reviews are returned, they would take the Editor's role in requesting revisions and recommending manuscripts for acceptance. Any assistants to the Guest Editor could help define the scope of the special issue and act as key reviewers in the way, associate editors do on regular journal submissions. The Special Issue would be headed by an editorial from the Guest Editors. Because of the large number of articles in any given issue of, Special Issues would usually be expected to be the leading section of a regular issue.
For publication in Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods, Special Issues should collate papers and reflections on specific topics in our rapidly moving field and take an analytic (not purely descriptive) stance. The quality of all papers included needs to be very high.
Proposals should detail the following:
Submission of proposals are open throughout the year. If you would like to avail of this, please send a 1-page outline to EIC (editor in chief) who will collate replies for the editors. The guest editors should make use of recent citations to justify the topicality of their proposal. While proposals that show potent support from a team of assistant editors or prospective authors will be given precedence.
For any query, please write an email to admin@codonpublications.com