Dialogue & Discourse is committed to:
To achieve this, D&D gives itself the following constitution.
The editor-in-chief is a member of the associate editors (executive board), who is elected by the rest of the associate editors for an initial period of three years (renewable). At the beginning of the third year, an election for next editor-in-chief is held, and the editor-elect shadows the editor-in-chief.
The editor-in-chief of the journal has the following responsibilities:
The job of the issue editor rotates among the associate editors. The issue editor is in charge of the issue of the journal assigned to them, and has the following responsibilities:
The associate editors form the executive board, and jointly manage organisational questions.
The normal term of service for an associate editor is 4 years (renewable). Under normal circumstances, an associate editor whose term has completed will remain on the board until a successor has been found.
In exceptional cases, the board of associate editors can vote to terminate a board member's term early. For this a two-thirds majority is required.
Candidates for associate editors have to be proposed by a member of the executive board and accepted by a two-thirds majority.
The editorial board consists of international experts in the fields covered by the journal.
Researchers are invited into the editorial board by the executive board. The term of service on the board is 3 years.In exceptional cases, the executive board can vote to terminate an editorial board member's term early. For this a two-thirds majority is required.
Reviewing is single-blind (the identities of reviewers are not known to authors, but that of the authors are known to the reviewers). We aim to have each paper which is not a desk reject to be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. No conflicts of interest are allowed for reviewers (e.g. members of same department, academic supervisors, etc.). Associate editors and members of the editorial board may submit articles to the journal, they will however be excluded from all stages of the decision process.
There is a special category of "invited papers", which will be marked as such when published, and which do not undergo the normal review process (but may undergo an editorial process where suggestions for improvements are sought). Invitations for such papers are made by the current editor in chief, if a proposal for an invitation has been approved by the majority of the executive board.
There can be thematic special issues of the journal, which are edited by guest editors. Such special issues can be proposed to the editor in chief by any researcher from the community, and proposals are accepted by majority vote of the executive board. Special issues should have an open call for submissions.
Changes to the constitution must be proposed no later than in the preceding meeting of the executive board before the vote on the proposed changes is to take place, and must be disseminated in writing. The vote itself is carried either by unanimous vote at a meeting with a quorum of the board present (2/3 of the board) or if a unanimous vote cannot be reached, then by a 2/3 majority of the entire board, which may be carried out offline, but also no sooner than at the next meeting after the proposed changes were presented.