for Authors

EDITORIAL POLICY

Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Polish Psychiatric Association. The journal publishes full-length articles, brief reports, and book reviews on topics concerning various aspects of psychiatry and psychotherapy as well as related disciplines. The journal is issued quarterly in both printed and electronic form. It can be accessed at http://www.archivespp.pl Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is internationally indexed in EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, PsycINFO, EBSCO and Index Copernicus.

The Editors endorse the principles embodied in the Helsinki Declaration, and expect all research involving human subjects to be conducted in accordance with these principles. The authors of clinical and research articles are obliged to protect the patients’ right to privacy. Only clinically or scientifically essential data can or should be published. Therefore, if it is necessary to identify a patient in a case report, illustration or paper, the Editors require that the authors obtain and provide a written consent form from the patient or his/her legal guardian to publish their data, including photographs, results of imaging tests, etc., prior to publication.

For animal experimentation reported in the Journal, it is expected that investigators will have observed the Interdisciplinary Principles and Guidelines for the Use of Animals in Research, Testing, and Education issued by the New York Academy of Sciences’ Ad hoc Committee on Animal Research.

All human and animal studies must have been approved by the primary investigator’s institutional review board prior to submission of the manuscript to the journal for review. Manuscripts including the results of examination of patients, involving a risk element, must have a copy of the written approval issued by the ethical committee attached.

Journal policy requires that reviewers, associate editors, editors, and senior editors reveal in written correspondence to the Editor-In-Chief any relationships they have that could be construed as causing a conflict of interest with regard to a manuscript under review. The letter should include a statement of any financial relationships with commercial companies involved with a product under investigation.

The authors relinquish the copyright of their work exclusively to the Journal. Upon acceptance, all published manuscripts become the permanent property of Publisher (Polish Psychiatric Association Editorial Committee), and may not be published elsewhere without explicit written permission from the Publisher.

Material derived from all other sources must be accompanied by a written statement from both the original author and the publisher granting permission to the Journal for reproduction. Permission should be obtained in writing from at least one of the author(s) of the manuscript while in press, regarding unpublished data, and/or personal communications.

Every effort is made by the Publisher and the Editorial Board to ensure that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinions, or statements appear in the Journal. However, it is explicitly stated that the data and opinions appearing in the articles as well as advertisements appearing in Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy are the sole responsibility of the contributor, sponsor or advertiser concerned. Accordingly, the Publisher and the Editorial Board accept no liability whatsoever in part or in whole, for the consequences of any such inaccurate or misleading data, opinion or statements made by the author(s).

 

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy accept experimental, clinical, theoretical papers, case reports and studies, which have not been published previously in other publications or considered for publication elsewhere, as well as invited papers. The editors accept also a) letters to the editor, concerning the articles printed in the journal as well as letters on important issues connected with the theme of the journal and, b) book reviews. The papers should be submitted in 1 copy, printed one sided on the A4 paper size along with the file on a cd-r, dvd, other storage device or sent by e-mail. The submitted paper written in English should not exceed 20 standard pages (1800 signs per page, spacing included), including illustrations and tables. The first page should contain: the title (very brief, if necessary a subtitle may be used), name(s) of the author(s), their affiliation(s), key words (3-5) and summary up to 100 words. The length of the letters to the editor should not exceed 5 pages of normalised text, whilst the book reviews should not exceed 2 pages. The paper should contain a short introduction, subject or material and methods, results, discussion, conclusions and references (not necessary in case reports). The address of the author to whom correspondence should be sent, telephone and fax number, (and e-mail address, if possible) should be given at the end of the paper. The authors are obliged to inform on their given participation scope in the work (eg. author of the conception, aims, methods, study protocol). In case of an even participation in the making of the publication, this should be clearly noted alongside each of the authors’ names. The corresponding author affirms that he or she had access to all data from the study, both what is reported and what is unreported. The corresponding authors also confirm that there was no editorial direction or censorship from the sponsors. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. Any part of an article critical to its main conclusions must be the responsibility of at least one author. Those contributing to the work should be recognised in an Acknowledgment. They must give written permission for their contribution to be noted in print. It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to obtain written permission. Editors will require authors to justify the assignment of authorship. In a separate paragraph, all potential conflicts of interest and financial support for all authors must be disclosed. This must include all equity ownership, profit-sharing agreements, royalties, patents, and research or other grants. If authors have no interests to disclose, this must be explicitly stated. The authors are obliged to mention if they have been aided by any grant in their research. The information on this should be placed in the footnote on the first page of the paper. All papers will undergo a rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two independent expert referees. Journal Policy regulates a double-blind review process; authors and reviewers remain anonymous. At least one of the reviewers will be from a foreign institution, other than the nationality of the author(s). The paper should be typed out in MS Word for Windows. The font should be Times New Roman 12, double-spaced; minimum margins: left 3.5 cm, right 1 cm, top 3.5 cm, bottom 3 cm. Pages should be numbered in the middle of the page heading. Titles and sub-titles should not be written in capital letters. As regards numbers, decimal fractions should be separated from units with a period and not a coma. The text cannot include any special layout tools like double spacing, bold, or capital letters. If the author wishes to distinguish a fragment of the text, the selected words should be underlined with a pencil on the printout: continuous line for the words to be bolded, dashed – for the words to be spaced, sinuous – in case of italics. The layout of the mid-titles and that of the tables is selected by the Editor according to the homogeneous layout of the journal. The authors are requested to use proper psychiatric vocabulary and international names of medicines (not trade ones). SI abbreviations should be used. Tables and drawings should be attached separately, numbered consecutively and their placement in the text should be clearly indicated. Tables should be prepared in MS Word for Windows, graphs in MS Excel and drawings in Corel Draw. Tables should be saved on the disk as a separate file, in the format they have been created in. Drawings and tables should not be wider than 13 cm and should be capable of reduction. Halftone drawings and illustrations should be saved as black and white (256 shades of grey) in the EPS or TIFF format, 300 dpi and the size in which they will be printed. Shades of grey or patterns should be used for filling the drawings and graphs. Do not use colour if an illustration is to be reproduced in black and white. High quality printouts of the drawings and tables should be attached to the text. Content of the tables and descriptions of drawings should be written in Arial Narrow 10. The number of tables and drawings should be reduced to minimum. The author must obtain a written permission from the copyright holder of the previously published tables, illustrations and figures. The authors are requested to cite only necessary references, which are clearly referred to in the text. In the reference list, each item should start in a new line and be numbered according to the appearance in the text. For references with no author term “anonymous” is used. For papers published in journals the references should preserve the following sequence: surnames of the authors followed by their name initials, title of the article, name of the journal (abbreviated according to Index Medicus at http://nlm.nih.gov; journals not indexed there should not be abbreviated), year, volume, pages; Example: Kowalski N, Nowak A. Schizophrenia case-study. Psychiatr Pol. 1919; 33(6): 210–223. For books: surnames of the authors followed by their initials, title of the book, place of publication, publisher, year of publication. Example: Kowalski ZG. Psychiatry. Sosnowiec: Press; 1923. For a chapter of a book: surnames of the authors followed by their name initials, title. In: surnames and name initials of the editor of the book, title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, pages. Example: Szymański BM. Depressive states. In: Kowalski AM, Głogowski P, editors. Psychiatry Manual. 2nd ed. Krosno: Psyche; 1972. p. 203–248. Be careful about punctuation (as in examples). Manuscripts including the results of examination of patients (involving a risk element) must have a copy of the written approval issued by the ethical committee attached.