Authors
GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS ON PREPARING MANUSCRIPTS
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for a detailed overview of manuscript preparation, including
general policies, disclosure of competing interests, the
review process, types of manuscripts published, and guidelines for
preparing tables and
figures.
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail attachment to kmoeller@psych.org. Please indicate that the attachment
is a manuscript intended for publication in FOCUS. For manuscripts submitted by regular mail, three copies of the manuscript and a computer disk
containing the manuscript should be submitted to Deborah J. Hales, M.D., Co-Editor, FOCUS: Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry,
1000
Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, Va. 22209-3901;
(703) 907-7300. A notation on the disk should specify the file name,
word processing software,
and the type of computer used. Papers should be
accompanied by a cover letter indicating that the paper is intended for
publication.
AUTHORSHIP, DISCLOSURE, AND COPYRIGHT TRANSFER
Review the FOCUS Guidelines for Authors on Preparing Manuscripts for
details on authorship, disclosure, and copyright transfer.
PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY
Broad access to the research literature and the rights of
our authors are important to American Psychiatric Publishing (APP), the
publisher of FOCUS. Read our public access policy for guidelines on deposit mandates for research funded by NIH
and others and institutional repositories.
NIH-Funded Research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revised Policy on
Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from
NIH-Funded Research (Public
Access Policy), which took effect on April 7, 2008,
requires all investigators funded by the NIH to submit or have submitted
for them their final
peer-reviewed manuscript upon acceptance for publication to
the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) PubMed Central
(PMC) to be made
publicly available no later than 12 months after the
official date of publication. APP acknowledges that the Author retains
the right to provide a
copy of the manuscript to the NIH upon acceptance for
publication (i.e., after all modifications from the peer review process
but before copyediting,
formatting, and production work performed to produce the
final published article) for public archiving in PubMed Central. Except
for special
circumstances in which specific arrangements have been
made, APP does not deposit manuscripts on behalf of authors. The NIH has
developed a
password-protected, web-based NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system to implement the NIH Public Access Policy.
Learn more about APP’s guidelines for research funded by NIH and other funders.
AUTHOR REPRINTS
No author reprints are furnished gratis. A reprint order
form will be sent to the corresponding author before publication of the
article. Reprints are
mailed to the corresponding author approximately 6 weeks
after the article has been published. Articles can be downloaded by
subscribers from the
journal website at focus.psychiatryonline.org.
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ordering bulk reprints for commercial use.
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Reviewers
BECOMING A REVIEWER
Individuals interested in reviewing for FOCUS should contact the Editorial Office.
Abstracts of articles within a reviewer’s given area of
expertise are sent via e-mail to the reviewer. Reviewers are asked to
complete the review
within three weeks.
COMPETING INTERESTS
Most competing interests, financial or otherwise, do not
disqualify a reviewer from participating in the peer review process, but
the journal requests
that reviewers indicate any conflict they may have in
reviewing a particular manuscript. Reviewers who have a competing
interest can decline to review
and inform the Editorial Office. Reviewer status is not affected in any way.
CONFIDENTIALITY
FOCUS
uses a double-blind review. In submitting their
manuscripts for review, authors entrust the journal with the results of
their scientific work and
creative effort, on which their reputation and career may
depend. Authors’ rights may be violated by disclosure of the
confidential details of the
review of their manuscript. Reviewers should never copy,
share, or discuss a manuscript under review or the data reported in it
with anyone without
written permission of the journal’s Editor and the
authors.
CME Opportunities
Contact the Editorial Office
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