title: World of wordcraft: on scientific editing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The author reflects on lessons in becoming and being a psychiatry journal editor.
  
  
  METHODS
  The author describes his transition from a writer to an editor and his development as an editor.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Editors need to consider the originality, novelty, methodological rigor of manuscripts, as well as their prose and ethical integrity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The author hopes that others undertake the role of editor.
authors.affiliation: Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA, andres.martin@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Andrés
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D035081:Editorial Policies; D006801:Humans; D017712:Peer Review, Research / Q000592:standards*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards*