Papers submitted to the journal are handled by a member of the Editorial Board, chosen by the Managing Editors. Upon submission, authors are asked to propose a handling Editor. The handling Editor may decide that the paper does not fit the journal's scope or standards, or s/he may seek an independent assessment of the qualities of the paper.
jGCC publishes only original papers which have not been published previously, nor are being submitted for publication elsewhere.
The journal adheres to the Code of Practice of the EMS. Plagiarism and duplicate publication are considered to be misconduct and will not be tolerated. Papers found to correspond to such a case of misconduct will be removed from the journal's site and the facts of the case will be reported.