Guidelines for Special Issue Guest Editors

Cognitive Systems Research welcomes proposals for special issues
on topics of current interest, or new and emerging research topics,
within the general scope of the journal. Guest editors who are 
interested in editing such a special issue should email a brief
proposal to Ron Sun.                

The proposal should include background of the proposed special 
issue, description of the topic, justification for the special 
issue, a tentative list of potential authors, a brief description 
of the target audience, a brief description of the review process 
to be followed, a brief CV for each of the guest editors, and a 
draft call for papers (including the relevant deadlines). The 
proposal will be reviewed by the editorial board of Cognitive 
Systems Research and their decision will be communicated promptly 
to the proposers.

If the proposal is accepted, the guest editors will be responsible  
for all aspects of the special issue including: producing 
a call for papers, soliciting submissions, identifying reviewers, 
obtaining reviews, selection of manuscripts for publication, and 
(optionally) writing a guest editorial for the special issue.  To 
avoid any potential conflict of interest (in reality or in appearence), 
manuscripts authored or coauthored by a guest editor or one of his or 
her close associates should be handled by a different editor who does 
not have such a conflict of interest with the author in question.

To fully assess multidisciplinary implications, significance, and 
accessibility of a submission, the guest editors need to assemble 
an interdisciplinary panel of reviewers. 
Each manuscript should be reviewed by at least two reviewers,
from at least two different disciplines. If an article involves more 
than two disciplines, additional reviewers should be consulted. 

At the end, the guest editors should communicate their recommendation 
on each manuscript to the editors-in-chief (along with a complete
set of reviews).