Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacologydelivers the highest quality peer-reviewed open access articles, reviews, and scholarly comment on pioneering efforts and innovative studies across all areas of psychopharmacology. The journal has a strong clinical and pharmacological focus and is aimed at an international audience of clinicians and researchers in psychopharmacology, providing an online forum for rapid dissemination of recent research and perspectives in this area.
The editors welcome original research articles across all areas of psychopharmacology.
The journal publishes original research articles and review articles primarily. Letters to the Editor and Case Reports will also be considered.
Review articles include expert opinion/perspective reviews (including single-drug and drug class reviews), narrative reviews and therapeutic area reviews. Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, postmarketing and health economic and pharmacoeconomic reviews are also welcomed. The appropriateEQUATOR Network reporting guidelinesshould be followed (e.g.CONSORTfor randomized, controlled trials andPRISMAfor systematic reviews/meta-analyses). The journal endorses theICMJE requirementthat clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
The journal adheres to a blind review process in which the reviewer's name is routinely withheld from the author unless the reviewer requests a preference for their identity to be revealed. Manuscripts are reviewed by at least two referees.
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Instructions to Authors
Manuscript Submission Guidelines:
Manuscript Submission Guidelines:Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission sitehttps://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tppto upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Remember you can log in to the submission site at any time to check on the progress of your paper through the peer review process.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope ofTherapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacologywill be reviewed.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacologymay accept submissions of papers that have been posted on pre-print servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting (contact details are at the end of these guidelines) and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy.
If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.