1 July 2024: The Editorial Publishing & Policy Resource is scheduled to be archived. This page may not contain the most updated version of the information and is being retained for reference until 1 August 2024.
Please refer to the revised editorial guidance resource.
This section provides guidance for editorial teams on how to implement the policies listed in the Cochrane Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource plus policies or information specific to Editors involved in the preparation and publication of Cochrane Reviews and other Cochrane content.
- Appeals policy: editorial management
- Assigning What’s New events to Cochrane Reviews
- Authorship and contributorship: editorial management
- Cochrane Review Group Specialized Register: request for exemptions
- Comments on Cochrane Reviews: editorial management
- Complimentary access to selected Wiley journals for Cochrane Review Groups and Satellites
- Conflict of interest: steps to action Research Integrity Editors and CoI panel decisions
- Co-publication templates for CRG Managing Editors
- Copy Edit Support
- Data protection
- Editorial note: editorial guidance
- Editorial responsibility and approval
- EMD screening resources
- Figures and tables: general reporting guidelines
- Gold open access Cochrane Reviews and Protocols: editorial management
- International editorial organizations: information for Cochrane Editors
- More than one Cochrane Review Group (CRG) providing editorial support on a Cochrane Review
- Overlapping scope: editorial management
- Proposals for new Cochrane Reviews: editorial management
- Peer review: editorial management
- Aim of peer review
- Editorial roles during the peer review process
- Acknowledgement
- Collating and addressing peer review comments
- CRG and DTA editorial team peer review policies and procedures
- Declarations of potential conflicts of interest for peer reviewers: implementation information
- Delegation of peer review responsibilities
- Exceptions to named peer review: editorial management
- Feedback to peer reviewers
- Inviting peer reviewers
- Inviting peer reviewers to be authors
- Number and expertise of peer reviewers: implementation
- Peer review checklists
- Support resources (peer review)
- Cochrane TaskExchange: new peer reviewers
- Plagiarism: editorial management
- Policy for managing potentially problematic studies: implementation guidance
- Promoting Cochrane Reviews: how to plan dissemination activities
- Rejection policy: editorial management
- Withdrawing published Cochrane Reviews: editorial management