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“Chinese Journal of Guidance and Counselling"
Editing Process and Notifications

Sep.30.2018 amended by editorial board
1. Formality Examination 
Manuscripts would be registered and reviewed by assistant editors. The format of manuscript would be reviewed whether it meets the writing styles of CJGC. If not, the manuscript revising would be required. The result of format reviewing would be completed within two weeks of receiving manuscripts.


2. Internal Auditing by Editorial Board
(1) Auditing Process
Manuscripts of format approval would be sent to each editorial committee. The manuscript would be reviewed whether it meets the standards of CJGC. If most of editorial committee do not approve of it, the manuscript would not be accepted.

(2) Indicators of Auditing 
a. Not suitable for CJGC purpose 
b. failure to meet the basic requirements of academic writing
c. Failure to highlight the importance of research topics 
d. Failure to cover important reference and to analyze deeply
e. Failure to adopt suitable research methods or need to major adjustment 
f. Research results could not respond to research purposes. 
g. Failure to show the values of research results and to break through existing references 
h. Failure to meet the basic requirements of research ethics 
i. Others


3. External Reviewing (Formal Reviewing)
(1) The First Review
a. Editorial committees would recommend the lists of auditors, who would be decided by internal editorial board. Then, assistant editors would invite these editors to review manuscripts anonymously.
b. The principles of first review would depends on the comments of anonymous review and the following table. In principle, the manuscripts would be processed according to the comments of most of reviewers. If both of reviewers agree with each other, the manuscript would be processed according to their comments; however, if they have a difference of opinions, the manuscript would be reviewed by the third anonymous reviewer or would enter to the second review. (The second review means “reviewing after author’s revising”.)

Table 1 Auditing Standards (Sep.14.2016 amended by editorial board)

Processing Methods Comments of the second anonymous reviewer
Acceptable for publication Publishing after revising Reviewing after revising Not acceptable for publication
Comments of the first anonymous reviewer Acceptable for publication Acceptable for publication Publishing after revising Publishing after revising/ The second review The third anonymous reviewer/ The second review
Publishing after revising Publishing after revising Publishing after revising Publishing after revising/ The second review* The third anonymous reviewer/ The second review*
Reviewing after revising Publishing after revising/ The second review Publishing after revising/ The second review Not acceptable for publication/ The second review* Not acceptable for publication/ The third anonymous reviewer/ The second review*
Not acceptable for publication The third anonymous reviewer/ The second review* The third anonymous reviewer/ The second review* Not acceptable for publication/ The third anonymous reviewer/ The second review* Not acceptable for publication*
 
*It indicates that the result of the second review would depend on the quality of papers and anonymous reviewers’ comments on it. If it is not available, the result of the second review would be determined by editorial board.
 
c. The manuscripts via external reviewing would be set in a month. If it is overdue, editorial board would remind reviewers through emails. If editorial board have not received the review comments, we might invite another reviewer to finish it. 
 
(2) The Second Review and Follow-up Review
The second review and follow-up review would be processed according to the first review.

(3) Notifications of Review Result
The notifications review result would be sent to the authors and the review comments would be attached. The following are four kinds of review results. 
a. “Acceptable for publication”－informing authors that manuscript would be published 
b. “Publishing after revising” －informing authors that the manuscript would be revised item by item according to the reviewers’ and chief editors’ comments. The internal editorial will finally decide whether to accept the manuscript for publication.  
c. “Reviewing after revising”－asking authors to respond to reviewers’ comments item by item and to explain and highlight the revision. The revised manuscripts would be reviewed again by the original editorial committees. In principle, re-reviews would be limited to three times. If it it is over three times, the processing methods of manuscripts would be determined by the internal editorial committee to reject or to send to the third reviewer.  
d. “Not acceptable for publication” －informing authors that the manuscript would be rejected 
e. If the authors could not meet the deadline for revising the manuscript, they would be reminded by editorial board and could apply for the extension on revising. The extension is limited to three months at the most.
 (a.) The item is only for one of the review results, “reviewing after revising”.
 (b.) If the author require over three-month extension of revising, the requirement would be sent to internal editorial board to approve of it  
      or to reject it. 
 (c.) If the author require over six-month extension of revising or could not be contacted, the internal editorial board could approve of the
      requirement or to reject the manuscript. 
 (d.) Considering authors’ efforts to write manuscripts, the internal editorial board would cancel any fee for author’s withdrawing
      manuscripts or for missing the deadline. 
 

4. Printing Format Check 
If the manuscripts was adopted, authors would check the format of manuscript according to the self-check list of CJGC. Then, the manuscript would be checked again by internal editorial committee. If it is approved, the authors would receive the notification of admission.