期刊名称：PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
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编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
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Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences publishes peer-reviewed original papers in all fields of psychiatry and related neurosciences. The Journal also publishes proceedings of meetings or papers on special topics as either regular or supplemental issues. One issue per year is entirely devoted to the Japanese Society of Sleep Research.
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences is supported by a Grant-in-Aid for publication of Scientific Research Results from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.
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Instructions to Authors
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences is published bimonthly by the Folia Publishing Society and publishes original works in all fields of psychiatry and related neurosciences. Papers are published in the following categories: Review Articles, Regular Articles, Short Communications and Letters to the Editor. The Journal also publishes Proceedings of meetings or papers on special topics as either regular or supplemental issues.
Manuscripts should be accompanied by a Checklist for Authors form (please see left hand side for details). All communications, including manuscripts for publication, should be sent to:
The Editor-in-Chief
Folia Publishing Society
Center for Academic Societies Bldg
2-4-16 Yayoi
Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-0032
Japan
For papers originating in Japan, at least one author must be a subscribing member to Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. All manuscripts, except abstracts or proceedings of relevant scientific meetings, will be peer reviewed. Authors are informed about the Editor's decision after the review process is completed. Manuscripts are accepted for publication on the understanding that they represent original material, have not been published previously, are not being considered for publication elsewhere and have been approved by each author.
Copyright Transfer
Manuscripts accepted for publication become the copyright of the Journal and all authors will be required to sign a transfer of copyright form. Published articles may not be reproduced elsewhere, in full or in part, without the Editor's written permission.
It is the responsibility of all authors to gain the necessary written permission from the original copyright holder to reproduce illustrations, tables or quotations that have appeared in print on a previous occasion; the permission letter must be submitted with the manuscript.
Patient Anonymity and Informed Consent
Ethical and legal considerations require careful attention for the protection of a patient's anonymity in case reports and elsewhere.
Experiments involving either human subjects or material of human origin should be carried out in accordance with the principles embodied in the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975. Manuscripts dealing with experimental investigations with human subjects must include a statement that informed consent was obtained after the procedure(s) had been fully explained. In the case of children, authors are asked to include information about whether the child's assent was obtained in addition to the consent of the guardian.
Style of Manuscripts
All the manuscripts should be written in lucid English. Spelling should be either British or American (current usage), but must be consistent throughout the manuscript. The style of manuscripts should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals as presented in JAMA 1993; 269: 2282-6. Manuscripts should be written so that they are intelligible to the professional reader who is not a specialist in the particular field. The Editor and Publisher reserve the right to modify manuscripts to eliminate ambiguity and repetition, and to improve communication between author and reader. Manuscripts accepted for publication are copy-edited to improve readability and to ensure conformity with the house style. If heavy correction is required this will be charged to the author.
Manuscripts should conform to the instructions below. Manuscripts which do not conform to these requirements may be returned to the author prior to review for correction.
Manuscripts on Disk
Authors are encouraged to provide the final version of their manuscript on disk together with an identical hard copy; this reduces errors in typesetting and speeds publication. Disks should not be sent until after the manuscript has been accepted and all revisions have been made. The Editor will not accept a disk without accompanying printouts of all the files on the disk. The text, table and figures should be saved in separate files on the disk and the file names must clearly indicate the content of each file.
Authors should supply their accepted manuscripts as formatted text on disk (preferably IBM compatible or Apple Macintosh in Word or WordPerfect formats) and should use new, clean disks, rather than reformatted disks. It is essential that the hardware and the word processing package, as well as the first author's name, are specified on the disk.
Special characters and symbols that are not included in your printer should be left blank in the files and should be carefully written on the printout in red. Do not justify the right-hand margin of the text.
Types of Articles
Review Articles
Review articles usually bring together important information in a topic of general interest to psychiatry and clinical neurosciences. Review articles should not exceed 7500 words, including an abstract of no more than 250 words, references, tables and figures (to determine word equivalence, see sections on Tables and Figures).
Original Articles
Regular Articles: Regular articles describing original work should not exceed 5000 words, including an abstract of no more than 250 words, references, tables and figures (to determine word equivalence, see sections on Tables and Figures).
Short Communications: Manuscripts submitted for Short Communications will be reviewed for publication within one month of receipt. These manuscripts should not exceed 1500 words, including an abstract of no more than 100 words, references, tables or figures (to determine word equivalence, see sections on Tables and Figures).
Letters to the Editor: Brief letters (maximum of 500 words, including references; no figures) will be considered for publication if they include the notation 'for publication'. Letters critical of an article published in the Journal must be submitted within 12 weeks of the article's publication. Offprints are not available.
Submission of Manuscripts
The original manuscript and four high-quality copies should be submitted. Authors should keep one copy for reference. Manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover sheet indicating that the paper is intended for publication, stating the number of figures and the number of words in the manuscript, and specifying for which section of the Journal it is being submitted (i.e. Review Articles, Regular Articles, Short Communications, Letters to the Editor).
Authors will be notified of the receipt of their manuscript and the number assigned to it. This number must be included in all further correspondence.
Manuscripts should be clearly typed double-spaced (including references, tables, figure legend and footnotes) on one side only of A4 paper (30 x 21 cm), with margins of at least 3 cm on all sides. All pages, including the title page, must be numbered consecutively. The use of smaller type, indentations, italics, Greek characters, preferred positions of tables and illustrations, or other special arrangements, should be clearly indicated in the right margin. The manuscript should be presented in the following order as much as possible: introduction with a review of literature, methods, results, discussion, conclusions, acknowledgements, references, tables, figure legends and figures. Each section of the manuscript should begin on a new page.
Title Page
The title should be brief and inform the reader of the actual content of the article. If the title consists of more than 50 characters (including spaces), a short running title (less than 40 characters including spaces) should be provided. The authors' names should be listed as follows: initials and/or first name, middle initials and family name. If there are more than seven authors, the additional authors will be listed in a footnote on the first page of the article. The present academic affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s) should be included. The name, full postal address, and telephone and facsimile numbers of the author to whom correspondence about the typescript, proofs and requests for offprints should be sent should be provided and clearly identified.
Abstract and Key Words
All manuscripts should include an abstract of not more than 250 words. References to the literature should not be included in the abstract. Following the abstract, not more than seven key words should be supplied to assist with indexing of the article. The key words should be based on the subject heading list of Index Medicus.
References
In the text, the references should be cited using superscript Arabic numerals, in the order in which they appear (following the Vancouver system of referencing). In the reference list abbreviate titles of journals according to Index Medicus. If a paper is written in a language other than English, the language should be indicated in parentheses. References to 'papers submitted', 'unpublished data', `personal communications', abstracts and other secondary material should appear in the text only.
List all authors for each reference, unless there are seven or more, when only the first three followed by et al. should be given. Authors should check that all references listed have been cited in the text and that no references have been omitted from the list.
References should be listed in numerical order at the end of the article, in the following form:
Journal articles
1. Miyakawa T, Katsuragi S, Yamashita K, Ohuchi K. Morphological investigation of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease. Jpn. J. Psychiatry Neurol. 1994; 48: 43-47.
Non-English journal articles
2. Senda S, Ohta M, Kurita H. Cognitive education of autistic children: From experiences in day-care. Jpn. J. Clin. Psychiatry 1978; 7: 921-930 (in Japanese).
Abstracts in journals
3. Ono Y, Yamauchi K, Yoshimura K et al. Social relationship of mixed anxiety disorder. Arch. Psychiatr. Diag. Clin. Eval. 1994; 5; 89 (abstract) (in Japanese).
Books
4. Hyman SE, Nestler EJ. The Molecular Foundations of Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1993.
Chapters in Books
5. Klerman GL. Introduction: Clinical psychopharmacology of affective disorders. In: Meltzer, HY (ed.), Psychopharmacology: The Third Generation of Progress. Raven Press, New York, 1987; 1019-1020.
Tables
Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals with an explanatory caption above the table. Each table should be typed on a separate sheet of paper. Tables should be intelligible without any reference to the text. Column headings should be brief, with units of measurement in parentheses. Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. The location of tables in the text should be clearly indicated in the margin of the typescript.
A double-spaced table that fills one-half of a vertical manuscript page equals 200 words of text, and one-half of horizontal manuscript page equals 350 words.
Figure Legends
Legends should be self-explanatory and typed on a separate sheet. The legend should incorporate definitions of any symbols used and explanations of scale bars or magnifications. Figures should be so constructed as to be intelligible without any reference to the text. The approximate positions of figures should be indicated in the margin of the manuscript.
Figures
Authors are requested to provide five sets of figures. All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) are classified as figures and should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Each figure should be labelled on the back indicating its number, name of author(s) and orientation of the figure. Figures are reduced to single column width (82 mm) whenever possible. Allowance should be made for lines and text becoming smaller and thinner on reduction to this size. Authors may request that figures be published at double-column width (174 mm). The maximum depth for large figures is 210 mm. A figure that fills one-half of a vertical manuscript page equals 200 words of text, and one-half of horizontal manuscript page equals 350 words.
Line drawings and graphs should be professionally drawn and lettered, using black ink on white paper.
Photographs should be provided as unmounted sharp, glossy, black and white prints. Duplicate copies of the photographs should be of the same quality as the original; machine copies of the original photographs are not accepted. Magnifications should be indicated using a scale bar on the illustration. Letters, symbols and arrows on the surface of the photograph should be professionally applied and be of sufficient size to allow easy identification.
Colour Photographs
Colour photographs should be submitted as colour prints for initial reviewing. Any symbols, arrows and scale bars should be provided on a transparent overlay with the colour prints. The Editor will request original colour transparencies for final publication of the figures. The full cost of reproducing colour photographs will be charged to the authors.
Publication Fees
Articles are subject to a charge per page. The Folia Publishing Society will subsidize page charges for authors from Asian countries. Colour printing and redrafting of tables require an additional charge.
Proofs and Offprints
Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author of an article, unless otherwise specified, and should be returned to Blackwell Science within 3 days of receipt. Major alterations are unacceptable at proof stage; authors will be charged for changes from their original manuscript.
Offprints may be ordered using the offprint order form sent to the corresponding author with the proofs. Fifty offprints will be provided without extra charge; additional offprints can be ordered at the prices given on the order form. The order payment should be returned with the corrected proofs within 3 days of receipt.
Copyright assignment forms must be signed by all authors and returned to the Publisher with the proof.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Saburo Takahashi, Saitama
Managing Editor
Yutaka Ono, Tokyo
Associate Editors
Teruhiko Higuchi, Chiba
Kanba Shigenobu, Yamanashi
Tadafumi Kato, Saitama
Masato Matsuura, Tokyo
Yuji Okazaki, Tsu
Editorial Office
Folia Publishing Society
Center for Academic Societies Bldg
2-4-16 Yayoi
Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-0032
Japan
Fax: +81 3 3817 5845
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