Each editor for an ASHA journal manages the peer review of at least 15 submissions per year. Each submission will likely travel through multiple rounds of review (typically two to three rounds at most). Editors are asked by the editors-in-chief to serve a multiyear term, during which the editors-in-chief rely on them to do the following:

• assign manuscripts to editorial board members (EBMs) for review;
• monitor the peer-review process to ensure fairness, timeliness, thoroughness, and civility.

The editors are empowered to make final editorial decisions regarding their assigned manuscripts after weighing comments from the reviewers.

1. An editor should give unbiased consideration to all manuscripts offered for publication, judging each on its merits without regard to race, gender, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the author(s).
2. An editor should process manuscripts promptly.
3. The editor has the responsibility and authority to accept a submitted paper for publication or to reject it. The editor may confer with the editor-in-chief as well as EBM or ad hoc reviewers for an evaluation to use in making this decision.
4. The editor should confirm that the author has correctly identified the manuscript type for the manuscript they are submitting to ensure the correct peer-review template is used.
5. The editor and the editorial staff should not disclose any information about a manuscript under consideration to anyone other than their editor-in-chief, reviewers, potential reviewers, and ASHA’s editorial administrator.
6. An editor should respect the intellectual independence of authors.
7. Editorial responsibility and authority for any manuscript authored by an editor and submitted to the editor’s journal will be handled by one of the other editors of that journal. Editors should avoid situations of real or perceived conflicts of interest.
8. Editors should avoid situations of real or perceived conflicts of interest.
9. Unpublished information, arguments, or interpretations disclosed in a submitted manuscript should not be used in an editor’s own research except with the consent of the author.
10. Editors should inform their editor-in-chief if they have ethical questions or concerns about a reviewer’s behavior or about ethical aspects of a work.

For more journal specific information about the role of editors, please see the Editorial Board Roles page for AJA, AJSLP, JSLHR, and LSHSS or Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups.