Reviewers have a crucial responsibility in the decision process leading from submission to publication. Here are some things that you as reviewers can do to help us as editors to improve and accelerate that process.

1. Please answer the invitation to review as promptly as possible, especially if you cannot do the review. This will allow the editor to invite a new reviewer and considerably shorten the submission-to-decision (StD) time.

2. If you cannot do the review, it would be extremely helpful for us if you could suggest alternative reviewers.

3. Like most journals, Glossa Contact uses double-blind peer review as its default policy. We allow reviewers to disclose their identity to the authors. We ask reviewers who wish to sign their reviews to carefully take into account the power differential that may exist between themselves and the authors of the paper.

4. If you know the author, we ask you to disclose this to the Handling Editorial Team when agreeing to review.

5. If you have reviewed the paper before for a different journal, that does not disqualify you from reviewing it again. In particular, if you notice that the paper has not changed from the last time you reviewed it, please inform the editor of this.

6. Please answer review reminders. Always handle the review assigned to you in the same way you would like reviews of your own article to be treated.

7. Please use our suggested review template.

8. Co-reviewing. We encourage senior reviewers to consider involving PhD students in their reviewing tasks if the paper is something the students have expertise on. Reviewers willing to do so should inform the Handling Editorial Team and provide the name of the PhD student to be involved for the Handling Editorial Team to approve.