The journal's co-editors are Mildred Boveda, Karly Sarita Ford, Erica Frankenberg, and Francesca López (Pennsylvania State University).

The major research for each topic was to be reviewed in themed issues of the journal over the course of a three-year time span, with a change in the editorial board every three years to coincide with the start of each new cycle.

[3] During the first three years, reviews were designed to catch readers up, so to speak, on relevant research in each topic, and so provided less in terms of synthesis or analysis, but rather read more like a list of studies.

[4] In 1970, RER underwent a fundamental change in structure, when the editorial board decided that its goals could at that time "best be achieved by pursuing a policy of publishing unsolicited reviews of research on topics of the contributor's choosing.

"[4] This marked a shift, therefore, not only in the organization of the journal, in that issues were no longer themed or limited to prescribed categories of exploration, but also in the submission process, in that authors were free to submit without special request from the editors.