Editorial Governance
Editorial Standards
The canonical editorial standards governing the Society's publications, their composition, and their stewardship over time.
Effective 2026-06-27
Principles
Accuracy
The Society's publications shall be accurate to the best of the editorial faculties available at the time of publication.
Attribution
Authorship, sources, and prior scholarship shall be attributed with care commensurate with the Society's scholarly character.
Clarity
The Society's publications shall be composed with the precision and economy proper to institutional and scholarly writing.
Continuity
Editorial decisions shall preserve the coherence of the Society's corpus across revisions and across time.
Scope
These Standards govern all editorial works issued by the Society, including institutional publications, scholarly articles, journal pieces, and member-facing communications of editorial character.
Editorial Authority
Editorial authority within the Society resides in the offices designated for that purpose. Editorial decisions are made under the standards set out here and in the Publication Ethics.
Review
Works proposed for publication are reviewed for accuracy, attribution, clarity, and consistency with the Society's institutional voice. Review may include consultation with subject-matter faculty where appropriate.
Revision and Correction
Where an error of fact or attribution is identified in a published work, the Society issues a revision and records the revision in the publication's revision history. Substantive editorial changes are similarly recorded.
Voice
The Society's publications are composed in the institution's established voice — formal, scholarly, and member-facing — and avoid promotional, polemical, or transient registers.
Relationship to Publication Ethics
These Standards are to be read together with the Society's Publication Ethics, which governs the conduct of authors, reviewers, and editors.
Revisions
- 2026-06-27Initial publication.