Editors should strive to improve the quality of Child Health Nursing Research. Editors should provide guidelines about research and publication ethics to researchers and information about the submission process and the review system to authors and reviewers. Editors should strive to maintain a fair and blind peer-review system by choosing suitable reviewers in their area of research expertise to review manuscripts. In order to ensure that the peer-review system is effective, editors should develop and update a database of reviewers. The editor-in-chief should identify eligible editorial board members, and provide them with information about Child Health Nursing Research. The editor-in-chief should discuss the publication of Child Health Nursing Research with editorial board members regularly. Editors should keep information about manuscripts, authors, and reviewers confidential. Editors should not use ideas expressed in the manuscript for the editor’s research without the authors’ consent. Editors should evaluate manuscripts objectively and appropriately without any bias or personal interest. Editors are required to be alert to misconduct or ethical issues in manuscripts, and to follow the standards of research and publication ethics. When an editor finds a fundamental error in a published manuscript, he or she should immediately initiate the process of resolution, including an expression of concern, correction, and/or withdrawal of the manuscript, as required. The resolution process will be initiated following the flowchart provided by the COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).

Regulations for the Editorial Board

1. Purpose
The purpose of these Regulations is to define matters regarding the operation of the editorial board of Child Health Nursing Research.

2. Organization of the Editorial Board
1) The editorial board comprises approximately 10 members, each with a 2-year term of office. Editors may serve consecutive terms to sustain the continuity of editing tasks.
2) Editors should have experience in performing peer review, should have produced outstanding research, and should be currently carrying out academic activities. Editors are selected with national and regional diversity in mind.
3) The editor-in-chief of the editorial board is the editorial director of the Korean Academy of Child Health Nursing (KACHN), and the editorial director is appointed based on a nomination by the KACHN executives and approval of its board of directors. Editor-in-chief’s term is two years. It may be able to be extended further for the stability of the journal editing by the board of directors of the society.

3. Duties of the Editorial Board
The editorial board is responsible for review, editing, and publication of manuscripts in CHNR, and the editor-in-chief reports the following to the board of directors:
1) Matters regarding publication of manuscripts in the journal: matters regarding editing, decisions on review and publication of submitted manuscripts, and final decisions on articles to be published in each volume and issue
2) Matters regarding workshops for reviewers and editors of the journal
3) Matters regarding the periodic evaluation of the journal
4) Matters regarding the periodic amendment of “Regulations on Review and Publication” of the journal
5) Matters regarding the process for managing publication malpractice
6) Editors do not handle their own manuscripts, even if they are commissioned.
7) Editors guarantee neither acceptance without review nor very short peer review times for unsolicited manuscripts. Commissioned manuscripts also reviewed before publication.