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GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS
ON PREPARING MANUSCRIPTS
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for a detailed overview on preparing your manuscript, including general
policies, the review process, types of manuscripts published, and guidelines
for preparing tables and figures.
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Psychosomatics
uses a Web-based manuscript submission and tracking system
called Manuscript Central to accelerate the peer review process and shorten the time from manuscript
submission to publication decision. Thus, the Journal will no longer accept manuscripts and letters by mail.
To submit your paper, please visit the
manuscript submission site at Manuscript
Central and either create an account or use your existing account.
Then follow the instructions to upload your manuscript. All submissions
must include a title page and be accompanied by a cover letter and list
of suggested reviewers.
AUTHORSHIP, DISCLOSURE, AND COPYRIGHT TRANSFER FORMS
Please visit the American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI), website
for forms.
PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY
Broad access to the research literature and the rights of our authors
are important to APPI, the publisher of Psychosomatics. Read our
public
access policy for guidelines on deposit mandates for research funded
by NIH and others and institutional repositories.
NIH-Funded Research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revised Policy on Enhancing Public
Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research (Public
Access Policy), which took effect on April 7, 2008, requires all investigators
funded by the NIH to submit or have submitted for them their final peer-reviewed
manuscript upon acceptance for publication to the National Library of
Medicine’s (NLM) PubMed
Central (PMC) to be made publicly available no later than 12 months
after the official date of publication. APPI acknowledges that the Author
retains the right to provide a copy of the manuscript to the NIH upon
acceptance for publication (i.e., after all modifications from the peer
review process but before copyediting, formatting, and production work
performed to produce the final published article) for public archiving
in PubMed Central. Except for special circumstances in which specific
arrangements have been made, APPI does not deposit manuscripts on
behalf of authors. The NIH has developed a password-protected, web-based
NIH
Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system to implement the NIH Public Access
Policy.
Learn more about APPI’s guidelines
for research funded by NIH and other funders.
AUTHOR REPRINTS
No author reprints are furnished gratis. A reprint order form will be
sent to the corresponding author before publication of the article. Reprints
are mailed to the corresponding author approximately 6 weeks after the
article has been published. Reprints of Book Reviews and Letters to the
Editor are not available, but they can be downloaded by subscribers from
the Journal website at psy.psychiatryonline.org.
Click here for information on ordering bulk reprints for commercial use.
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Reviewers
BECOMING A REVIEWER
Individuals interested in reviewing for Psychosomatics should visit Manuscript
Central and create an account.
Abstracts of articles within a reviewer’s
given area of expertise are sent via e-mail to the reviewer. Within 3
days, the reviewer is asked to indicate willingness to review and availability
to perform the review within a 2-week time frame.
COMPETING INTERESTS
Most competing interests, financial or otherwise, do not disqualify one
from participating in the peer review process, but the Journal requests
that you indicate any conflict that you may have in reviewing any particular
manuscript. You can also notify the Journal if you feel that you cannot
review a manuscript because of a competing interest. This will not affect
your reviewer status in any way.
CONFIDENTIALITY
Manuscripts must be reviewed with due respect for authors’ confidentiality.
In submitting their manuscripts for review, authors entrust the Journal
with the results of their scientific work and creative effort, on which
their reputation and career may depend. Authors’ rights may be violated
by disclosure of the confidential details of the review of their manuscript.
Reviewers should never copy, share, or discuss a manuscript under review
or the data within with anyone without expressed written permission of
the Journal’s Editor and the authors.
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