INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS
1. The International Journal of Social Psychiatry is published bimonthly. It publishes original work in the fields of social and community psychiatry and in related topics.
2. Submission of an article will be taken to indicate that it has not been published in its present form elsewhere or that it is at present being assessed by another journal. Where articles have been presented at congresses or conferences this should be indicated.
3. Manuscripts accepted are subjected to copy editing to ensure conformity with Journal style.
4. General advice to authors. Articles are unlikely to be accepted for publication if they do not conform substantially to the Journal style. In addition to original articles the journal also publishes Editorials, Review Articles, Brief Reports and Letters. Editorials are generally invited by the Editor and reflect on topics of current controversy or to serve as introductions to themed editions of the journal. Review Articles will, in a scholarly fashion, summarise an important area of the literature. Brief reports will be up to 1000 words in length and provide a brief account of innovative work in the field.
5. Manuscripts and covering letters should be submitted electronically by email attachment to the Editor, Professor Dinesh Bhugra, and copied in to the Editorial Assistant, Andrea Livingstone (see contact details below). On acceptance of the manuscript, the lead author will need to sign a Publishing Agreement form on behalf of all authors.
(a) Review Articles should not exceed 4000 words.
(b) Titles should be typed on a separate page with the names of the contributors (but not their designations). Full titles, affiliations, and addresses of authors (including tel/fax and email) should be supplied on a separate page at the end of the article.
(c) Structured Abstracts are required for original papers. For data-based papers the Journal will expect abstracts, of up to 200 words, to contain a description of the Background to the study, its Aims, Methods, Results and Conclusions. For qualitative studies the Journal will consider such papers with an abstract of no more than 100 words, under the headings of Background, Material, Discussion and Conclusions. Key words: Up to 5 appropriate key phrases or 6-8 key words should also be included.
(d) References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper, the titles of the journals being given in full. Authors should follow Journal style for the reference list and study the examples given below. Titles of books and journals are printed in italic and should therefore be underlined on the typescript. Reference lists not in Journal style will be returned to the author for correction. Authors should check that the text references and the reference list are in complete agreement as regards dates and spelling of names. The text reference should be in the form '(Smith, 1971)' or 'Smith (1971) showed that . . . '
Craik, F.I.M. (1971) Primary Memory. British Medical Bulletin, 27, 232-236.
McHugh, P.R. & Folstrin, M.F. (1979) Psychopathology of dementia: implications for neuropathology. In Congenital & Acquired Cognitive Disorders (ed. R. Katzman). New York: Raven Press.
Szasz, T.S. (1961) The Myth of Mental Illness. New York: Harper and Row.
Yalom, I., Lunde, D., Moos, R. & Hamburg, D. (1968) Postpartum blues syndrome. Archives of General Psychiatry, 18, 16-27.
(e) Tables and figures should be numbered separately and have short descriptive titles. The position of the table or figure in the text should be indicated in the text e.g. 'Table 3 about here'. Tables and figures will only be presented if they are necessary for the presentation and clarity of results. Line diagrams should be supplied electronically and if possible, as EPS files (all fonts embedded) or TIFF files, 800 dpi - b/w only. Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permission for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.
A copy of the journal for each author (maximum 5) and a restricted quantity pdf will be provided for each original or review article published.
All correspondence and manuscripts should be addressed to the Editor, with copies sent to the Editorial Assistant:
Professor Dinesh Bhugra, Section of Cultural Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, PO25, De Crespigny Park, London, United Kingdom SE5 8AF.
Tel: 020 7848 0500; Fax: 020 7848 0333.
Email: d.bhugra@iop.kcl.ac.uk and andrea.livingstone@iop.kcl.ac.uk. (Editorial Assistant)
Books for review should be addressed to Dr Inga-Britt Krause, Tavistock Clinic, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA.
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