95 urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:02939EE0-163D-59B9-A896-E0B63CFEE862 European Science Editing ESE 0258-3127 2518-3354 European Association of Science Editors (EASE) 10.3897/ese.2020.e59855 59855 Viewpoint Copyediting Guidelines Journal managment Language editing Open Science Peer Review Research Integrity Substantive editing The "ize" have it - reflections on spelling and its rules Wheatley Denys editor@biomedes.biz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7352-3062 1 Chairman and Director, BioMedES UK; International Advisor ESE, Inverurie, United Kingdom Chairman and Director, BioMedES UK; International Advisor ESE Inverurie United Kingdom

Corresponding author: Denys Wheatley (editor@biomedes.biz).

Academic editor: Dado Čakalo

 2021 04 05 2021 47 8510068D-5EB8-5690-BD5E-F016F87ADD99 22 10 2020 19 11 2020 Denys Wheatley This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

A brief discussion is presented of the use of "ize" rather than "ise" in most current day journals. The need for editors and authors to be consistent in their spelling remains an issue.