A volunteer board of directors leads the Council, with the assistance of several committees.
CSE is managed by Riggs Enterprise Corp, located in New Jersey.
[1] The membership of CSE comprises editorial professionals, mainly in the United States.
As well as providing services and advice online, CSE holds an annual meeting that includes short courses on topics such as journal editorship, publication management, manuscript editing, and journal metrics.
In 2014 and 2024, CSE partnered with the University of Chicago Press to use the successful online platform of The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS or CMS; which provides users with search and personal annotation of the manual) to publish Scientific Style and Format online.