The Editorial Board for the International Code of nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP)

 The Statutes of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) establishes the Editorial Board for the ICNP, which “… shall be proposed by the EB-ICSP.” (Article 12) ¹.

 “The Editorial Board for the ICNP shall consist of an Editor-in-Chief appointed by the EB-ICSP, the Chair and the Vice-Chair of the JC, and the Chair and Vice-Chair of the ICSP. The Editor-in Chief shall be the Chair of the Editorial Board. The Board shall have power to co-opt.” (Article 13) ¹.

“(a) Duties of Editor-in-Chief of the ICNP. The Editor-in Chief shall be responsible for the continuing revision of the ICNP, for its editing, and publication. The Editor-in-Chief shall submit the manuscript after approval by the Editorial Board for publication in book form and/or electronic form.

(1) To supervise consideration of proposals for emendation by the ICSP after publication in the IJSEM, including distribution of comments from the JC and members of the ICSP to the entire ICSP, and supervision of balloting among the ICSP.” ¹

1. Whitman WB, Bull CT, Busse H-J, Fournier P-E, Oren A, Ventura S. 2019. Request for revision of the Statutes of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 69(2): 584-593; doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003117. Epub 2018 Dec 6.

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