# Best practices for special issues and other types of guest edited collections

**URL:** <https://theplace.discourse.group/t/best-practices-for-special-issues-and-other-types-of-guest-edited-collections/259>\
**Category:** Publishing Ethics\
**Tags:** special-issues, guest-editors, conference-proceedin\
**Created:** [June 1, 2023, 7:03am UTC](https://theplace.discourse.group/t/best-practices-for-special-issues-and-other-types-of-guest-edited-collections/259 "2023-06-01T07:03:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 7:03am UTC](https://theplace.discourse.group/t/best-practices-for-special-issues-and-other-types-of-guest-edited-collections/259/1 "2023-06-01T07:03:30Z")

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“Best practices for guest edited collections” introduces recommendations for journals and publishers for handling collections that are edited by guest editors. The potential risks and ethical issues are highlighted, as well as a **checklist** for creating guest edited collections, steps to ensure collections are edited according to valid publishing practices and ethical standards, and clarification of the ethical responsibilities throughout the various stages of the process.

> **[Guest edited collections best practice](https://publicationethics.org/resources/discussion-documents/guest-edited-collections)**
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> Find out the ethical responsibilities for creating and hosting guest -edited article collections in journals