期刊名称：BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
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编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Published monthly by The Royal College of Psychiatrists, this is one of the world's leading psychiatric journals. It covers all branches of the subject, with particular emphasis on the clinical aspects of each topic. In addition to a large number of authoritative papers from both the UK and around the world, the journal includes editorials, review articles, commentaries on contentious articles, preliminary reports, a comprehensive book review section and a lively and well-informed correspondence column. A series of supplements, sent free to subscribers, provides in-depth coverage of selected areas.
The journal is essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and all professionals with an interest in mental health. The British Journal of Psychiatry print version is sent to all Members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which includes most psychiatrists working in the UK. There is also a substantial international subscriber base.
All papers in this journal are peer-reviewed. No person is permitted to take any role in the peer-review of a paper in which they have an interest, defined as follows: fees or grants from, employment by, consultancy for, shared ownership in, or any close relationship with, an organisation whose interests, financial or otherwise, may be affected by the publication of the paper. Unless so stated, material in this journal does not necessarily reflect the views of the Editor or the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The publishers are not responsible for any error of omission or fact.
Full text content is online from January 2000. Full text is made freely available 1 year after publication. There is a free archive of abstracts from 1975 and a free archive of tables of content from 1965.
Time from submission to acceptance (including review time): 6 months
Time from acceptance to publication: 5 months
Acceptance rate for original research: 25%
Impact Factor: 4.374
Print ISSN: 0007-1250
Online ISSN: 1472-1465
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Instructions to Authors
Contents
Introduction
The British Journal of Psychiatry is published monthly by The Royal College of Psychiatrists. The Journal publishes original work in all fields of psychiatry. Manuscripts for publication should be sent to The Editor, The British Journal of Psychiatry, 17 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PG.
All published articles are peer reviewed. A decision will be made on a paper within three months of its receipt.
Contributions are accepted for publication on the condition that their substance has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors submitting papers to the Journal (serially or otherwise) with a common theme or using data derived from the same sample (or a subset thereof) must send details of all relevant previous publications, simultaneous submissions and papers in preparation.
The Journal does not hold itself responsible for statements made by contributors. Unless so stated, material in the Journal does not necessarily reflect the views of the Editor or of The Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Published articles become the property of the Journal and can be published elsewhere, in full or in part, only with the Editor's written permission.
Manuscripts accepted for publication are copy-edited to improve readability and to ensure conformity with house style.
We regret that manuscripts and figures unsuitable for publication will not normally be returned. Manuscripts
Three high-quality manuscript copies together with an electronic copy on floppy disk (PC formatted) should be submitted and authors should keep one copy for reference. Manuscripts must be typed on one side of the paper only, double-spaced throughout (including tables and references) and with wide margins (at least 4 cm); all the pages, including the title page, must be numbered. Authors should indicate the preferred section of the Journal for their article: editorial, review article, paper or short report. Title and authors
The title should be brief and relevant. If necessary, a subtitle may be used to clarify the main title. Titles should not announce the results of articles and, except in editorials, they should not be phrased as questions. The Editor reserves the right to shorten or amend titles.
All authors must sign the covering letter; one of the authors should be designated to receive correspondence and proofs, and the appropriate address indicated. This author must take responsibility for keeping all other named authors informed of the paper's progress. All authors should clearly state their involvement in the work.
The Journal does not consider to be authors people thanked in the Acknowledgements or listed as members of a study group on whose behalf a paper is submitted, but whose names do not appear as authors on the title page of the manuscript, or whose signed agreement to the manuscript's submission has not been obtained. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure that authorship is agreed among the study's workers, contributors of additional data and other interested parties, before submission of the manuscript.
If authors wish to have their work peer-reviewed anonymously, they must submit their work without personal identification; names and addresses of all authors should be given in the covering letter. Otherwise, the names of the authors should appear on the title page in the form that is wished for publication, and the names, degrees, affiliations and full addresses at the time the work described in the paper was carried out should be given at the end of the paper. Declaration of interest
All submissions to the Journal (including editorials and letters to the Editor) require a declaration of interest. This should list fees and grants from, employment by, consultancy for, shared ownership in, or any close relationship with, an organisation whose interests, financial or otherwise, may by affected by the publication of the paper. This pertains to all the authors of the study. Structure of manuscripts
Papers
A structured summary should be given at the beginning of the article, incorporating the following headings: Background; Aims; Method; Results; Conclusions; Declaration of interest. The summary should be no more than 150 words.
Introductions should be no more than one paragraph (up to 150 words). This should be followed by Method, Results and Discussion sections. Use of subheadings is encouraged, particularly in Discussion sections. A separate Conclusions section is not required.
The article should be between 3000 and 5000 words in length (excluding references, tables and figure legends) and include no more than 20 essential references beyond those describing statistical procedues, psychometric instruments and diagnostic guidelines used in the study.
Three clinical implications and three limitations of the study should be included as brief bullet points at the end of the paper. Review articles
Review articles should be structured in the same way as regular papers, but the restriction on the number of references does not apply. Short reports
Short reports require an unstructured summary of one paragraph, not exceeding 100 words. The report should not exceed 1500 words (excluding references, tables and figure legends) and contain no more than one figure or table and up to 10 essential references beyond those describing statistical procedures, psychometric instruments and diagnostic guidelines used in the study. Short reports will not exceed two printed pages of the Journal and authors may be required to edit their report at proof stage to conform to this requirement. Editorials
Editorials should be structured in the same way as short reports, but no summary is required. Editorials may exceed two printed pages in length at the Editor's discretion. References
References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper, the titles of journals being given in full. Reference lists not in the correct style will be returned to the author for correction.
Authors should check that the text references and list are in agreement as regards dates and spelling of names. The text reference should be in the form `(Smith et al, 1971)' or `Smith et al (1971) showed that . . .'. The reference list should follow the style example below (note that et al is used after three authors have been listed for a work by four or more). Documents published on the internet should be treated in the same way as printed documents but with the full URL included at the end of the reference.
Abraham, H. D. (1974) Do psychostimulants kindle panic disorder? American Journal of Psychiatry, 143, 1627-1628.
American Psychiatric Association (1980) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd edn) (DSM-III). Washington, DC: APA.
Aylard, P. R., Gooding, J. H., McKenna, P. S., et al (1987) A validation study of three anxiety and depression self assessment scales. Psychosomatic Research, 1, 261-268.
De Rougemont, D. (1950) Passion and Society (trans. M. Belgion). London: Faber and Faber.
Fisher, M. (1990) Personal Love. London: Duckworth.
Flynn, C. H. (1987) Defoe's idea of conduct: ideological fictions and fictional reality. In Ideology of Conduct (eds N. Armstrong & L. Tennehouse), pp. 73-95. London: Methuen.
Jones, E. (1937) Jealousy. In Papers on Psychoanalysis, pp. 469-485. London: Baillière Tindall.
Mullen, P. E. (1990a) Morbid jealousy and the delusion of infidelity. In Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry (eds R. Bluglass & P. Bowden), pp. 823-834. London: Churchill Livingstone.
Mullen, P. E. (1990b) A phenomenology of jealousy. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 24, 17-28.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) (2002) Principles on Conduct of Clinical Trials and Communication of Clinical Trial Results. Washington, DC: PhRMA. http://www.phrma.org/publications/policy//2002-06-24.430.pdf
Personal communications need written authorisation; they should not be included in the reference list. No other citation of unpublished work, including unpublished conference presentations, is permissible. Tables
Each table should be submitted on a separate sheet. Tables should be numbered and have an appropriate heading. The tables should be mentioned in the text but must not duplicate information in the text. The heading of the table, together with any footnotes or comments, should be self-explanatory. The desired position of the table in the manuscript should be indicated. Do not tabulate lists, which should be incorporated into the text, where, if necessary, they may be displayed.
Authors must obtain permission from the original publisher if they intend to use tables from other sources, and due acknowledgement should be made in a footnote to the table. Figures
Figures should be individual glossy photographs, or other camera-ready prints, or good-quality output from a computer, not photocopies; they should be clearly numbered and include an explanatory legend. Avoid cluttering figures with explanatory text, which is better incorporated succinctly in the legend. 3-D effects should be avoided. Lettering should be parallel to the axes. Units must be clearly indicated and should be presented in the form quantity (unit) (note: `litre' should be spelled out in full unless modified to ml, dl, etc.). All figures should be mentioned in the text and the desired position of the figure in the manuscript should be indicated.
Authors must obtain permission from the original publisher if they intend to use figures from other sources, and due acknowledgement should be made in the legend.
Colour figures may be reproduced if authors are able to cover the costs. Statistics
Not all papers require statistical analysis. Case histories and studies with very small numbers are examples. In larger studies where statistical analyses are included it is necessary to describe these in language that is comprehensible to the numerate psychiatrist as well as the medical statistician. Particular attention should be paid to clear description of study designs and objectives, and evidence that the statistical procedures used were both appropriate for the hypotheses tested and correctly interpreted. The statistical analyses should be planned before data are collected and full explanations given for any post hoc analyses carried out. The value of test statistics used (e.g. t, F-ratio) should be given as well as their significance levels so that their derivation can be understood. Standard deviations and errors should not be reported as ? but should be specified and referred to in parentheses.
Trends should not be reported unless they have been supported by appropriate statistical analyses for trends.
The use of percentages to report results from small samples is discouraged, other than where this facilitates comparisons. The number of decimal places to which numbers are given should reflect the accuracy of the determination, and estimates of error should be given for statistics.
A brief and useful introduction to the place of confidence intervals is given by Gardner & Altman (1990, British Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 472-474). Use of these is encouraged but not mandatory.
Authors are encouraged to include estimates of statistical power where appropriate. To report a difference as being statistically significant is generally insufficient, and comment should be made about the magnitude and direction of change. Randomised controlled trials
The Journal recommends to authors the CONSORT guidelines (1996, Journal of the American Medical Association, 276, 637-639) in relation to the reporting of randomised controlled clinical trials. In particular, a flow chart illustrating the progress of subjects through the trial (CONSORT diagram) must be included. General
Abbreviations, units and footnotes
All abbreviations must be spelt out on first usage and only widely recognised abbreviations will be permitted.
The generic names of drugs should be used.
Generally, SI units should be used; where they are not, the SI equivalent should be included in parentheses. Units should not use indices: i.e. report g/ml, not gml-1.
The use of notes separate to the text should generally be avoided, whether they be footnotes or a separate section at the end of a paper. A footnote to the first page may, however, be included to give some general information concerning the paper. Materials, equipment and software
The source of any compounds not yet available on general prescription should be indicated. The version number (or release date) and manufacturer of software used, and the platform on which it is operated (PC, Mac, UNIX etc.), should be stated. The manufacturer, manufacturer's location and product identification should be included when describing equipment central to a study (e.g. scanning equipment used in an imaging study). Case reports and patient consent
If an individual patient is described, his or her consent should be obtained and submitted with the manuscript. Our consent form can be downloaded here. The patient should read the report before submission. Where the patient is not able to give informed consent, it should be obtained from an authorised person. If it is not possible for informed consent to be obtained, the report can be published only if all details that would enable any potential reader (including the patient or anyone involved in his or her care) to identify the person are omitted. Merely altering age and treatment centre is not sufficient to ensure that a patient's confidentiality is maintained. Contributors should be aware of the risk of complaint by patients in respect of defamation and breach of confidentiality, and where concerned should seek advice. In general, case studies are published in the Journal only if the authors can present evidence that the case report is of fundamental significance to the subject. Proofs
A proof will be sent to the corresponding author of an article. Offprints, which are prepared at the same time as the Journal is printed, should be ordered when the proof is returned to the Editor. Offprints are despatched up to six weeks after publication. The form assigning copyright to the College must be returned with the proof. Letters to the Editor
Letters should not exceed 350 words. They will be edited for clarity and conformity to Journal style and may be shortened. There should be no more than five references. Proofs will not be sent to authors. If an individual patient is described, his or her consent should be obtained and submitted with the manuscript (see above). Letters must include a 'Declaration of interest' (see above), to be published at the discretion of the Correspondence Editor. Letters may be submitted directly by email to publications@rcpsych.ac.uk.
Editorial Board
Editor
Peter Tyrer. London Deputy Editor
Tom Fahy. London Associate Editors
Sidney Crown (Book Reviews Editor). London
Alan Kerr. Newcastle upon Tyne
Julian Leff. London
Robin McCreadie. Dumfries
Sir Martin Roth, FRS. Cambridge Editorial Advisers
Howard Croft. London
Tony Johnson. Cambridge
Martin Knapp. London
Herschel Prins. Leicester
John Wing. London Assistant Editors
Louis Appleby. Manchester
Alistair Burns. Manchester
Tom Burns. London
Mary Cannon (Editorials and In Debate Editor). London
Patricia Casey. Dublin
John Cookson. London
Nick Craddock. Cardiff
Tim Crow. Oxford
Mike Crawford (Editorials Editor). London
John Eagles. Aberdeen
Anne Farmer. London
Michael Farrell. London
Nicol Ferrier. Newcastle upon Tyne
Elena Garralda. London
Simon Gowers. Chester
Paul Grasby. London
Richard Harrington. Manchester
Sheila Hollins. London
Frank Holloway. London
Jeremy Holmes. Barnstaple
Matthew Hotopf. London
Louise Howard. London
Robert Howard. London
Khalida Ismail. London
Robert Kerwin. London
Michael King. London
Michael Kopelman. London
Stephen Lawrie. Edinburgh
Alan Lee. Nottingham
Paul Lelliott. London
Glyn Lewis. Cardiff
Shôn Lewis. Manchester
Philip McGuire. London
Ian McKeith. Newcastle upon Tyne
Kwame McKenzie (In Debate Editor). London
J. Spencer Madden. Upton-by-Chester
Anthony Maden. Southall
Max Marshall (Reviews Editor). Preston
David Owens. Leeds
Femi Oyebode (Book Reviews Editor). Birmingham
Rosalind Ramsay (Book Reviews Editor). London
Henry Rollin. London
Sashi P. Sashidharan. Birmingham
Jan Scott. Glasgow
Sukhwinder S. Shergill. London
Andrew Sims (In Debate Editor). Leeds
George Stein. London
Elizabeth Walsh. London
Stanley Zammit. (Correspondence Editor) Cardiff Trainee Editor
Geetha Suryanarayan. London Corresponding Editors
Andrew Cheng. Taiwan
Assen Jablensky. Australia
Kenneth Kendler. USA
Arthur Kleinman. USA
Andrej Marusic (Psychiatry Around the World Editor). Slovenia
Paul Mullen. Australia
Vikram Patel. India
Michele Tansella. Italy
J. L. Vázquez-Barquero. Spain Statistical Advisers
Stephen Roberts. Oxford
Pak Sham. London Staff
Dave Jago. Head of Publications
Andrew Morris. Deputy Head of Publications
Anne Ashford. Assistant Scientific Editor
Lynnette Maddock. Assistant Scientific Editor
Sandra Murrell. Assistant Scientific Editor
Mary Leach. Editorial Assistant
Jenny Hickman. Publications Assistant
Lucy Alexander. Sales and Marketing Manager
Carrie Davis. Marketing Officer
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