How to submit your manuscript
Transcultural Psychiatry is hosted on Manuscript Central™, a web based online submission and peer review system - SAGETRACK. Please read the Manuscript Submission guidelines below, and then simply visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/TC_PSYCH to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is possible that you will have had an account created.
All papers must be submitted via the online system. If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, please refer to the contact details below.
Transcultural Psychiatry adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties. All manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors and only those papers that meet the scientific and editorial standards of the journal, and fit within the aims and scope of the journal, will be sent for outside review. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two referees. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, and an editorial decision is generally reached within 8-10 weeks of submission.
All manuscripts should follow the style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition and must be typewritten and double-spaced. Original articles and overviews should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 100 words and about five key words, plus a cover sheet providing authors' postal/email addresses and tel/fax numbers. UK or US spellings are acceptable but must be consistent. Titles and section headings to be given in three weights: A, B or C. Quotations over 40 words to be displayed, indented, in the text. Notes and References should appear at the end of the text. Tables and figures should have short descriptive titles. Line diagrams should be supplied preferably as EPS or TIFF files, 800 dpi - b/w only. Photographs should be supplied as TIFF files, 300 dpi.
Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permission for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.
Corresponding authors will receive copies of the printed journal (up to a maximum of 5 copies per article) and a restricted quantity pdf of their article after publication.
Address correspondence to: L.J. Kirmayer, Editor-in-chief, transcultural psychiatry, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, 1033 Pine Avenue West, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 1A1.
Tel: (514) 398-7302; fax (514) 398-4370 [email: transcultural.psychiatry@mcgill.ca]
English Language Editing Services: Please click here for information on professional English language editing services recommended by SAGE.
If you wish your article to be freely available online immediately upon publication (as some funding bodies now require), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Open subject to payment of a publication fee. Manuscript submission and refereeing procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Open. For further information, please
visit http://www.uk.sagepub.com/sageopen.sp
