Review Process

Articles submitted to the peer review journal "The Development Review" undergo an internal and external review process. Submissions which have had the author's name(s) removed are first checked for formatting and writing quality by our undergraduate editorial board. The articles that meet formatting standards are then forwarded to the Board of Editors in Chief which is made up of professors, post-graduate MA and PHD students at York University. Essays which did not meet formatting standards are returned to the author for revision and resubmission. Essays which are approved by the Editors in Chief will be sent to a member of the external review board. If both internal and external boards have approved the article will be published in the next available issue.

The Board is made of 6 members and oversees the internal review process. The Board of Editors in Chief will receive submissions that have been screened through the undergraduate editors who check for formatting, citation, and grammar quality. The Board of Editors in Chief will then review the submission for research quality, academic quality, relevance of the paper, and selecting an appropriate external reviewer from the list of external reviewers to have the article forwarded to. The Board of Editors in Chief should elect a chair which will be responsible for any internal coordination with the board regarding communication and deadlines and arranging any meetings the board should have if the need arises. We ask all of our editorial staff for a commitment to stay with the journal until the beginning of the next full academic year (September).