Functions of the Editorial Team of the Biocenosis Magazine

Director:

• Ensure the academic and formal quality of the magazine.
• Propose thematic directions.
• Foster connections with external contributors to the publishing entity.
• Represent the magazine in academic circles to increase its visibility.
• Understand the readers' needs and interests.
• Uphold the quality of manuscript content.
• Appoint national and international scientific advisors.
• Ensure adherence to publication standards.
• Make decisions regarding the publication and dissemination of articles.
• Collaborate with the editor to propose publication guidelines.
• Provide guidance and review texts to identify those unsuitable for review.
• Make decisions about editorial board invitations.
• Supervise the editorial team's work.
• Select reviewers for each article.
• Monitor and allow reviewers an appropriate timeframe to complete their reviews, and maintain statistics.
• Convene and participate in editorial board meetings, collaborating with members to develop the magazine.
• Familiarize oneself with the administration of the OJS platform.

Editor:

• Verify that articles comply with the magazine's standards.
• Layout publications (graphic composition of publications).
• Send authors the results of reviews.
• Suggest improvements to the manuscript to authors.
• Co-coordinate special issues of the magazine with the director.
• Keep the reviewer archive on the website updated, along with author guidelines, the magazine's mission, correspondence, integration into indexes, databases, portals, and more.
• Manage design and style correction.
• Compile articles.
• Assist authors during the review process.
• Track authors' compliance with deadlines (response time).
• Communicate responses (both positive and negative) to the author.
• Provide post-decision assistance.
• Clarify the rationale for article rejections.
• Offer support to new authors.
• Provide guidance and review texts to identify those unsuitable for review.
• Monitor the manuscript from receipt to acceptance.
• Review layout proofs.
• Manage the magazine's inclusion in indexes and databases.
• Maintain up-to-date statistics on the number of submitted articles, rejections (rejection rate), evaluator response times, and other pertinent data.
• Ensure long-term access and preservation of published information.
• Maintain a comprehensive archive illustrating the flow of the process.

Electronic Journal Administrator (Webmaster):

• Administer the article submission and publication platform using a content management system (such as OJS).
• Create the visual design.
• Execute programming tasks if necessary (HTML layouts).
• Suggest value-added services for the magazine.
• Construct indexes for the magazine or implement efficient search tools.
• Leverage Web 2.0 resources to achieve superior results and manage magazine statistics.
• Allocate metadata to the magazine (abstracts, keywords, author affiliations).

Editorial Board:

• Attend meetings convened (typically virtual) by the magazine's director.
• Ensure publication and adherence to publication schedules.
• Review scientific and editorial quality standards.
• Propose external reviewers.
• Serve as reviewers in their field of expertise if required.

Associate Editor:

• Attend meetings convened (typically virtual) by the magazine's director.
• Evaluate the quality of manuscripts.
• Propose actions to enhance the magazine.

Technical Team:

Layout Designer: Responsible for magazine layout design.

Philologist: Focus on formatting and style correction.

Translators: Tasked with translating titles, abstracts, and keywords.

Designers: Handle the visual presentation of the magazine.