Within a week after being assigned a paper, the Handling Editorial Team will contact two reviewers to evaluate the paper and assess it for clarity, validity, and sound methodology. Reviewers have two weeks to respond to the invitation. If they do not, new reviewers will be contacted by the Handling Editorial Team. The time reviewers take to react may substantially lengthen the duration of the reviewing process. In addition to external reviews, the members of the Handling Editorial Team are encouraged to write their individual comments on the paper.

Reviewers are asked to send in their reviews four weeks after accepting the invitation, but this is negotiable. They are invited to use a review form to evaluate the paper, but using this form is not compulsory. Glossa Contact encourages the reviewers to divide their review into (i) a text review with general comments and (ii) annotations, when possible made in-file, regarding issues specific to particular passages in the submission. Reviewers are gently and regularly reminded of their invitations to review and the due dates for their reviews.

The reviewing process is double-blind by default: reviewers have no access to the identity of the authors, and the authors do not know who the reviewers are. For more details, see here. 

During submission, authors can suggest and exclude reviewers for their submission, and they may justify these proposals. The Editors are free (but not obliged) to invite suggested reviewers. They will, however, never invite reviewers who have been explicitly excluded by the author.

Members of the editorial board and guest editors are permitted to submit their own papers to the journal. In cases where an author is associated with the journal, they will be removed from all editorial tasks for that paper and another member of the team will be assigned responsibility for overseeing peer review.