The responsibilities expected from any individual who wanted to be a guest/associate editor of the International Journal of AGILE Manufacturing are as follows:
A guest editor is responsible for organizing a single issue of the journal, whereas an associate editor is responsible for organizing one issue each year, beginning with the October 1999 issue and continuing throughout the year 2000 and onward. As I am sure you will agree, this is a great honor for any researcher to include among his achievements..
* Decide whether you want to undertake the responsibility as guest editor
or associate editor independently, or whether you want to invite a colleague or colleagues
from your own university or organization or from other sources, to serve as co-guest
editor(s) or co-associate editor(s). It will be your prerogative to extend such
invitations and then work as a team with those people.
* Determine the theme for your designated issue. For instance, Vol. 1, Issue 2 of IJAMS
used the theme of "Next Generation Manufacturing." (Please see our Web site,
noted at the top right of this page, for a list of themes used in previous issues.)
* In accordance with your selected theme, solicit and collect articles for the issue for
which you are responsible, and arrange for those articles to be reviewed, edited and
formatted according to the requirements of each journal. Previous issues have included an
average of 12 articles, with each page averaging 10 pages in length.
* Send the articles to me, in both hard copy and on disk, at least three months in advance
of the targeted publication date. Include in your mailing package a list of everyone who
helped to review the articles, along with their accompanying title and names of their
university or organization, so that they can be credited in the journal as
"Reviewers". And, of course, also include the name, title and university
affiliation of anyone who may have served with you as a co-guest editor or co-associate
editor, so that they, too, will be credited.
Once we have received the articles for your designated issue, the
publication committee will give them final approval and then arrange for the completion of
the publishing process. Because the journals are self-sufficient and still relatively
young, it will be necessary for the publisher to administer a partial publication charge;
however, articles of extremely high quality will not be refused if the author cannot
afford the fee.