Responsibilities of Members of the Board of Editors

Members of the Board of Editors serve eight-year terms (five years, extendable to eight, in the case of individuals located outside the US and Canada). New editors are elected by the Board when the term of a current editor is approaching its end. The responsibilities of members of the Board of Editors include the following:

• Supervising the checking in their laboratory of procedures in articles submitted to Organic Syntheses, editing the final version of the article, and preparing a report at the conclusion of checking.




• Reviewing all articles submitted for publication in Organic Syntheses and providing comments and recommendations to the Editor in Chief.




• Reviewing proposals for articles for publication in Organic Syntheses and providing comments and recommendations to the Editor in Chief.




• Attending biannual meetings of the Board of Editors to review articles in checking and discuss new initiatives.




• Proposing articles that might be solicited for submission to Organic Syntheses.




• Editing an annual volume of Organic Syntheses in the final year of their term on the Board of Editors.