How to deal with the unqualified quality of periodical editing and proofreading

The treatment methods of unqualified periodical editing and proofreading quality are as follows:

1, report the situation to the editorial department of the journal. You can write or call the editorial department of the journal to report the editing and proofreading quality problems. Specific problems can be illustrated by examples, and improvement schemes can also be proposed.

2, to reflect the situation to the author or peer, the journal editorial department can not solve the problem, you can consider to reflect the situation to other authors and peers in the field, to find a solution. You can also ask questions in peer review to improve the quality of periodical editing and proofreading.

3. Make a complaint or report. If the editorial department of the journal turns a blind eye to the problem or thinks that it can't be improved, it can try to complain or report to the relevant institutions, and there are enough materials to prove that the editing and proofreading quality is unqualified, why do you think the quality is unqualified and so on.

4. After changing the contributing journals, I feel that the editing and proofreading quality of journals has always been problematic, but it has not improved after reflection and treatment. We can consider looking for more suitable journals from a long-term perspective.

Editing and proofreading of periodicals means that the editorial department of periodicals modifies and proofreads the text format, language expression, argumentation logic and references of manuscripts, which plays an important role in the quality and influence of periodicals.