A Short Guide to Ethical Editing for New Editors, Version 2

Main sections are as follows:

1. Initial assessment of journal when you take over
2. Relations with the outgoing editor
3. Relations with the other editors/editorial board
4. Relations with authors
5. Transparency
6. The submission system
7. Relationship with reviewers
8. The peer-review process
9. Can editors publish in their own journal?
10. Editorial independence/relation with publisher/journal owner (e.g., academic/professional society)
11. Commercial issues (e.g., advertizing, commercial supplements, tendering process)
12. Responding to possible misconduct/inappropriate behaviour and dealing with complaints

Also contains resource lists.