We have split the information regarding our editorial process into the following subcategories: Titles, Protocols, Reviews, Updating.

The following flowchart for our editorial process for reviews can be downloaded as a pdf.

The Cochrane Review Group's (CRG) Co-ordinating Editor(s) can reject a Cochrane Review at any stage before publication (including unpublished protocols, unpublished Cochrane Reviews, and Cochrane Reviews that are being updated).  Authors should note:

• Registration of a new title or drafting of the protocol for a Cochrane Review by a specific author team does not guarantee publication for that team. Publication of a protocol does not guarantee authorship or publication of the subsequent review; and publication of a Cochrane Review does not guarantee authorship or publication of an updated version.
• Authors are free to submit elsewhere a Cochrane Review that has been rejected on the condition that no reference is made to the manuscript being a Cochrane Review. 
• A CRG has the right to register and publish a Cochrane Review on the same topic as a rejected Cochrane Review with a different author team.
• The full rejection policy can be found here.