https://doi.org/10.1177/0016986218824675 Gifted Child Quarterly 2019, Vol. 63(2) 83–85 © 2019 National Association for Gifted Children Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0016986218824675 journals.sagepub.com/home/gcq Editorial As we continue into our second year as Editors of Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ), we are very excited to be able to share the changes we have been working to implement for the journal in the types of manuscripts accepted, in keywords for manuscripts and reviewers, and in GCQ’s commitment to open science practices. As Editors, we spent much of our first year making improvements to our procedures, email templates, and timelines, and now with these behind-the- scenes changes mostly completed we are ready to take some big steps that will position GCQ as an education leader in moving our research practices forward. During our planning process, we have consulted with our editorial team, with edi- tors of other special education journals, with experts from other disciplines, with members of two working groups that we formed, and with the SAGE publishing team. We are con- scious of the value of our journal’s page space, and as always, we will continue to reserve as much of it as possible for pub- lishing high-quality research; however, to most effectively share these exciting new changes, we have decided to describe briefly both the changes themselves and our ratio- nale for making them here, in the journal’s pages, where these will be most visible to our readership. Types of Manuscripts Accepted In the past, GCQ has only had submission guidelines for Feature Articles, although Methods Briefs also have been accepted under previous editors. Beginning in 2019, GCQ will now accept four types of articles. We continue to accept Feature Articles as our primary article type; Feature Articles share research findings and new, creative insights about gift- edness, talent development, creativity, advanced academics, and individual differences in all contexts. We now also have formalized the acceptance of Methods Briefs. The purpose of these is to provide our readers and the field with focused articles that are instructive and that address quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods topics within the context of our field so that the practice of gifted education research may be improved. To encourage the submission of research that does not war- rant a full Feature Article (e.g., a replication or extension of a previously published study, an executive summary of a large study or group of studies, research that has an original empirical or theoretical contribution but is smaller or narrower in scope), we now will also accept Brief Reports as a third manuscript format. Finally, as we share in the Transparency and Openness section below, as a part of our commitment to open science practices, we now accept Registered Reports. This format of submissions helps minimize bias in science by providing peer-review feedback prior to the research being conducted. The SAGE GCQ website (http://www.sagepub.com/journals /Journal201850#submission-guidelines) now includes the spe- cific submission guidelines and further information for authors regarding each of these four types of manuscripts. Keywords One of our primary goals as editors is to foster high-quality reviews of manuscripts. These reviews serve two purposes: (1) to help researchers improve their manuscripts, whether they eventually are published in GCQ or in another venue; and (2) to ensure the high quality of research and writing published in GCQ. To foster this goal, we strive to have a minimum of three, and ideally four, reviews for each manuscript. Each manuscript also is read and reviewed by an assigned Associate Editor and Editor who synthesize the reviewers’ feedback and who may add additional feedback not identified by the review- ers. We rely heavily on our strong Editorial Board as well as on our ad hoc reviewers to provide reviews that are both thoughtful and timely. To better match the expertise of our reviewers with the content and methods of the manuscripts we receive, we have revised our keywords. Now, in addition to selecting from among a more concise list of keywords, we will require authors and reviewers to indicate content keywords separately from methods keywords. We also intend that by adopting a more consistent set of keywords, GCQ articles will become easier to locate via keyword searches. 824675GCQ XX X 10.1177/0016986218824675Gifted Child QuarterlyAdelson and Matthews editorial 2019 1 Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 2 University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA Corresponding Author: Jill L. Adelson, Duke University, Talent Identification Program, 300 Fuller Street, Durham, NC 27701, USA. Email: GCQuarterly@gmail.com Gifted Child Quarterly’s Commitment to Transparency, Openness, and Research Improvement Jill L. Adelson 1 and Michael S. Matthews 2