General Guidelines for Reviewers

• If a reviewer has a personal, professional, or financial interest that might cause them to be seen to gain from a review of a manuscript, the reviewer should disclose the conflict of interest to the journal’s editors immediately, rather than perform the review.
• A reviewer should not reveal any content of any manuscript unless the manuscript is accepted for publication and, in that case, only after publication.
• A reviewer who has been asked to review a manuscript previously in another context should notify the journal’s editors immediately.
• If a reviewer has evidence of plagiarism by the author of a manuscript, the reviewer should report it to the journal’s editors immediately.
• If a reviewer has evidence of duplicate submission by the author of a manuscript, the reviewer should report it to the journal’s editors immediately.
• Reviewers should avoid the use of intemperate or argumentative language in their reviews of manuscripts.