期刊名称：PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The journal aims to publish papers which bring together clinical observations, psychological and behavioural abnormalities and genetic data. All papers are fully refereed.
Psychiatric Genetics is also a forum for reporting new approaches to genetic research in psychiatry and neurology utilizing novel techniques or methodologies.
Psychiatric Genetics publishes original Research Reports dealing with inherited factors involved in psychiatric and neurological disorders. This encompasses gene localization and chromosome markers, changes in neuronal gene expression related to psychiatric disease, linkage genetics analyses, family, twin and adoption studies, and genetically based animal models of neuropsychiatric disease. The journal covers areas such as molecular neurobiology and molecular genetics relevant to mental illness.
Reviews of the literature and Commentaries in areas of current interest will be considered for publication. Reviews and Commentaries in areas outside psychiatric genetics, but of interest and importance to Psychiatric Genetics, will also be considered.
Psychiatric Genetics also publishes Book Reviews, Brief Reports and Conference Reports.
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Instructions to Authors
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Note: These instructions comply with those formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. For further details, authors should consult the following article: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" N Engl J Med 1997;336:309-315. The complete document appears at http://www.icmje.org.
Scope
Psychiatric Genetics considers for publication papers dealing with inherited factors involved in psychiatric and neurological disorders. The journal covers areas such as molecular neurobiology, molecular pharmacology, pharmacogenomics and molecular genetics relevant to mental illness. Articles may be submitted as: research papers; brief reports; reviews; commentaries; conference reports and book reviews.
POINTS TO CONSIDER WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR PAPER TO ONE OF OUR JOURNALS
We have prepared a standard covering letter to accompany your submission. Whether you use this letter or your own wording, please think carefully about the following points and make the appropriate declarations.
Redundant or duplicate publication
We ask you to confirm that your paper has not been published in its current form or a substantially similar form (in print or electronically, including on a web site), that it has not been accepted for publication elsewhere, and that it is not under consideration by another publication. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has provided details of what is and what is not duplicate or redundant publication. If you are in doubt (particularly in the case of material that you have posted on a web site), we ask you to proceed with your submission but to include a copy of the relevant previously published work or work under consideration by other journals.
Conflicts of interest
We ask authors to state all possible conflicts of interest, including financial and other relationships. If you are sure that there is no conflict of interest, please state this. Some of our journals will print your statement; others at present do not. You might like to look at an editorial in the British Medical Journal' on Beyond conflict of interest. Remember that sources of funding should be acknowledged in your paper.
Permissions to reproduce previously published material
We ask you to send us copies of permission to reproduce material (such as illustrations) from the copyright holder. We cannot send your paper to press without these permissions!
Patient consent forms
The protection of a patient's right to privacy is essential. We ask you to send copies of patient consent forms on which patients or other subjects of your experiments clearly grant permission for the publication of photographs or other material that might identify them. If the consent form for your research did not specifically include this, please obtain it or remove the identifying material. A sample patient consent form is available here if required.
Ethics committee approval
You must state clearly in your submission in the Methods section that you conducted studies on human participants must with the approval of an appropriate named ethics committee. Please also look at the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki. Similarly, you must confirm that experiments involving animals adhered to ethical standards and must state the care of animal and licensing guidelines under which the study was performed.
Authorship
We ask that all authors sign the submission letter. First, we have (rarely) had problems when someone named as an author was not aware of the submission of a paper and, on occasion, did not support the findings published. We therefore ask all authors to confirm that they have read and approved the paper. Second, we ask all authors to confirm that they have met the criteria for authorship as established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, believe that the paper represents honest work, and are able to verify the validity of the results reported. You might also be interested to read the debate on authorship in general in the British Medical Journal's Authorship collection.
Many of the points covered above are discussed in the New England Journal of Medicine's collection of papers entitled 'Editorial policies'.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
*Manuscripts originating in the USA should be sent to John Nurnberger, Jr, those from continental Europe to Hugh Gurling, and those from elsewhere to either editor.
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Professor John I. Nurnberger, Jr
Department of Psychiatry
Indiana University Medical Center
791 Union Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46202-4887
USA
Tel: (+1) 317 274 8382
Fax: (+1) 317 274 1365
E-mail: jnurnber@iupui.edu |
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Professor Hugh Gurling
Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory
Windeyer Institute for Medical Sciences
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences
Royal Free & UCL Medical School
46 Cleveland Street
London W1P 6DB
UK
Tel: (+44) 20 7380 9474
Fax: (+44) 20 7436 5046
E-mail: h.gurling@ucl.ac.uk
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Brief Reports should be submitted to:
Professor Raymond R. Crowe
Dept. of Psychiatry Research - MEB
University of Iowa College of Medicine
Iowa City, IA 52242-1000
USA
Tel: (+1) 319 353 4232
Fax: (+1) 319 353 3003
E-mail: ray-crowe@uiowa.edu
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Technology reviews should be submitted to:
Dr. Gerome Breen
Section of Genetics
1 Windsor Walk
Division of Psychological Medicine
King's College Institute of Psychiatry
London, SE5 8AF, UK
E-mail: g.breen@abdn.ac.uk |
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Brief Reports
Brief reports should be of no more than 1500 words and two tables or figures. Please contact one of the editors to discuss the suitability of topics for review (up to 7500 words), commentary (up to 2500 words) or other material falling outside the usual categories.
Please submit four copies of the text, figures and tables. Manuscripts should be typed on white bond paper. Margins should be not less than 3 cm. Double spacing should be used throughout the manuscript, which should include the following sections, each starting on a separate sheet: title page, abstract and keywords, text, acknowledgements, references, individual tables and captions. Pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page, and the page number should be placed in the top right-hand corner of each page. Abbreviations should be defined on their first appearance in the text; those not accepted by international bodies should be avoided.
Disks and CD-ROMS
All submissions should include electronic files using either floppy disks or CD ROMs. Put only the latest version of the manuscript on the disk; name the file clearly; label the disk with the format of the file and the file name; provide information on the hardware and software used.
Authors who wish to submit papers by e-mail should contact the editorial office first.
Presentation of Papers
Title Page
The title page should carry the full title of the paper and a short title to be used as a 'running head' (and which should be so identified). The first name, middle initial and last name of each author should appear. If the work is to be attributed to a department or institution, its full name should be included. Any disclaimers should appear on the title page, as should the name and address of the author responsible for correspondence concerning the manuscript and the name and address of the author to whom requests for reprints should be made. Finally, the title page should include the sources of any support for the work in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or any combination of these.
Abstracts
The second page should carry a structured abstract of no more than 250 words. The abstract should state the Objective(s) of the study or investigation, basic Methods (selection of study subjects or laboratory animals; observational and analytical methods), main Results (giving specific data and their statistical significance, if possible), and the principal Conclusions. It should emphasise new and important aspects of the study or observations.
Review articles, brief reports and commentaries should include an unstructured summary of no more than 150 words.
Key Words
The abstract should be followed by a list of 3-10 keywords or short phrases which will assist the cross-indexing of the article and which may be published. When possible, the terms used should be from the Medical Subject Headings list of the Index Medicus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html).
Text
Full papers of an experimental or observational nature may be divided into sections headed Introduction, Methods (including ethical and statistical information), Results and Discussion (including a conclusion), although reviews may require a different format.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements should be made only to those who have made a substantial contribution to the study. Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission from people acknowledged by name in case readers infer their endorsement of data and conclusions.
References
For references, please follow the Harvard system. In the text give the author(s) name and, in parenthesis the date of the paper/book being cited. Differentiate between papers by the same author in the same year by a, b, c, d, etc., immediately after the date. Where there are three or more authors use et al. in the text and a, b, c, to resolve ambiguities. All works cited must be listed at the end of the paper, ordered alphabetically by first author’s name. For each first author, list single authored works in chronological order. References should include the names of all authors when six or fewer; when seven or more, list only the first six names and add et al. References should also include full title and source information. Journal names should be abbreviated as in the Index Medicus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nlmhome.html).
Articles in journals
Standard journal article:
Berrettini WH, Goldin L, Gelernter J, Gejman PY Gershon ES, Detera-Wadleigh S (1990). X-chromosome markers and manic-depressive illness. Arch Gen Psychiatry 47:366-373. Books
Book:
First MB, Spitzer RL, Gibbon M, Williams JBW (1997). Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV Axis I and II disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press. Chapter in a book:
Venables P (1964). Input dysfunction in schizophrenia. In: Maher BA, editor. Progress in Experimental Research. New York: Academic Press, pp. 1-47.
Personal communications and unpublished work should not feature in the reference list but should appear in parentheses in the text. Unpublished work accepted for publication but not yet released should be included in the reference list with the words ‘in press?in parentheses beside the name of the journal concerned. References must be verified by the author(s) against the original documents.
Tables
Each table should be typed on a separate sheet in double spacing. Tables should not be submitted as photographs. Each table should be assigned an Arabic numeral, e.g. (Table 3) and a brief title. Vertical rules should not be used. Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading. Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table. Identify statistical measures of variations, such as standard deviation and standard error of the mean.
Be sure that each table is cited in the text. If you use data from another published or unpublished source, obtain permission and acknowledge the source fully.
Illustrations
References to figures and tables should be made in order of appearance in the text and should be in Arabic numerals in parentheses, e.g. (Fig. 2). If hard copies are submitted they should have a label pasted to the back bearing the figure number, the title of the paper, the author's name and a mark indicating the top of the figure. Illustrations should not be mounted. Half-tone illustrations should be presented as glossy prints to a width of 82 mm; line illustrations should be presented as original artwork or prints to a width of 82 mm or, when the illustration demands it, to a width of 173 mm. Photomicrographs must have internal scale markers. If photographs of people are used, their identities must be obscured or the picture must be accompanied by written consent to use the photograph. If a figure has been published before, the original source must be acknowledged and written permission from the copyright holder for both print and electronic formats should be submitted with the material. Permission is required regardless of authorship or publisher, except for documents in the public domain. Figures may be reduced, cropped or deleted at the discretion of the editor. Colour illustrations are acceptable but authors will be expected to cover the extra reproduction costs (for current charges, contact the publisher).
Legends for illustrations
Captions should be typed in double spacing, beginning on a separate sheet of paper. Each one should have an Arabic numeral corresponding to the illustration to which it refers. Internal scales should be explained and staining methods for photomicrographs should be identified.
Units of measurement
Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric units (metre, kilogram, or litre) or their decimal multiples. Temperatures should be given in degrees Celsius. Blood pressures should be given in millimetres of mercury.
All haematologic and clinical chemistry measurements should be reported in the metric system in terms of the International System of Units (SI). Editors may request that alternative or non-SI units be added by the authors before publication.
Abbreviations and symbols
Use only standard abbreviations. Avoid abbreviations in the title and abstract. The full term for which an abbreviation stands should precede its first use in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement.
Offprints
Offprints may be purchased using the appropriate form that will be made available with proofs. Orders should be sent when the proofs are returned; orders received after this time cannot be fulfilled.
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Editorial Board
Editorial Correspondence
*Manuscripts originating in the USA should be sent to John Nurnberger, Jr, those from continental Europe to Hugh Gurling, and those from elsewhere to either editor.
Professor John I. Nurnberger, Jr
Department of Psychiatry
Indiana University Medical Center
791 Union Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46202-4887
USA
Tel: (+1) 317 274 8382
Fax: (+1) 317 274 1365
E-mail: jnurnber@iupui.edu
Professor Hugh Gurling
Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory
Windeyer Institute for Medical Sciences
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences
Royal Free & UCL Medical School
46 Cleveland Street
London W1P 6DB
UK
Tel: (+44) 20 7380 9474
Fax: (+44) 20 7436 5046
E-mail: h.gurling@ucl.ac.uk
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