Guidelines for Reviewer Guidelines for Acceptance Criteria Guidelines for Review Process Sample Letters for Review Process Project Schedule for Special Issues

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CODE OF ETHICS:  As a reviewer, you must not review your own paper, either single or co-authored.  Normailly, you should not review a paper authored by someone you know or work with.  As our review process is double-blind, you may not know the name of the author(s), but you might be familiar with the paper title.  If you have any doubt, please go ahead with declining the review assignment.

As a reviewer, you should be:

• TIMELY:  Complete the review report quickly and before the assigned due date.  The authors are anxious to receive your feedback.
  
  
• CONSTRUCTIVE:  Suggest ways of improvement to the author for revising the paper.
  
  
• SPECIFIC:  Tell the author what the problems are and how these problems can be addressed (where possible). Itemize and number your points or paragraphs.
  
  
• FRIENDLY:  Provide your comments with intention to help.  Avoid personal attack.  Be tough on the issues, not on the authors.
  
  
• UNDERSTANDING:  Occasionally you will be asked to review submissions from authors whose native language is not English; in those cases, it will also be important for you to distinguish between the quality of the writing and the quality of the ideas that the writing conveys. Give a paper having good ideas a chance to improve its readability even if the authors did not express them well.
  
  
• THOROUGH:  Provide all the requested inputs in the online review form.

Finally, please select "Reviewer" portal when you log into JMS at http://www.icebnet.org/JMS/.   The system uses your e-mail address and the User ID.  If you forgot your password, you could request the system to send it to your e-mail address.

Thank you very much for your review effort.