Introduction : What editors do and want to tell us / Michael Watts -- A decade of editing the European economic review / Zvi Eckstein [and others] -- The wish list of an editor : some reflections on editing the Scandinavian journal of economics / Richard Freiberg -- Edifying editing / R. Preston McAfee -- Reflections on editing the Journal of finance, 2006 to 2012 / Campbell R. Harvey -- Journals, editors, referees, and authors : experiences at the Journal of economic literature / John Pencavel -- Memoirs of an editor / Fabrizio Zilibotti -- On editing the History of political economy / Craufurd Goodwin -- On turning twenty : the Journal of economics & management strategy comes of age / Daniel F. Spulber -- Reflections on being of a journal editor / Lawrence J. White -- The internal policies of journal editing / William A. Barnett -- Reptilian economists of the world unite : a tolerance manifesto / Richard V. Atkinson -- Notes from a second-line journal : suggestions for authors / Paul H. Rubin and Antony W. Dnes -- Replication and reflection : a decade at the Journal of money, credit, and banking / William G. Dewald and Richard G. Anderson -- Epistemic flagpoles : economics journals as instrumental rhetoric / Daniel W. Bromley -- Supplying private goods and collective goods at Public choice / William F. Shughart II -- The Journal of sports economics / Leo H. Kahane -- My experiences as editor of the Journal of developing areas / Abu N.M. Wahid -- Potpourri : reflections from husband and wife academic editors / William E. Becker and Suzanne R. Becker -- Helping the homeless : reflections on editing journals outside the mainstream / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- Econ agonistes : navigating and surviving the publishing process / Steven Pressman -- Tales from the editor's crypt : dealing with true, uncertain, and false accusations of plagiarism / J. Barkley Rosser Jr. -- An instructive case in referencing priority conflict, and ethics : the role of an editor in a scholarly journal / Michael Szenberg -- An editor's life at the Journal of economic perspectives / Timothy Taylor -- The journal editorial cycle and practices / Lall B. Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg.