TY - JOUR T1 - An Editor’s farewell JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 177 LP - 178 DO - 10.1183/20734735.113215 VL - 11 IS - 3 AU - James Y. Paton Y1 - 2015/09/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/11/3/177.abstract N2 - Unlike Scottish judges, editors are not appointed ad vitam aut culpam (“for life or until fault”) but usually come with more limited mandates. After 3 years as Chief Editor of Breathe, my time is up and this is my last issue. Dr Renata Riha from the University of Edinburgh takes over as Chief Editor, with the first issue under her mandate to be ­published in December.At the end of his mandate as Breathe Chief Editor, James Paton reflects on the previous 3 years http://ow.ly/RctU8 ER -