The Neuroimaging section of Psychiatry Research publishes manuscripts on positron emission tomography,
magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, functional magnetic resonance imaging, single photon emission computed tumography,
computerized electroencephalographic topography, regional cerebral blood flow, computed tomography, magnetoencephalography, autoradiography,
post-mortem regional analyses, and other imaging techniques. Reports concerning results in psychiatric disorders, dementias and the effects
of behavioral tasks and pharmacological treatments are featured. We also invite manuscripts on the methods of obtaining images and computer
processing of the images themselves.
Submission of Manuscripts
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guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. When submitting a manuscript online, authors need to provide
an electronic version of their manuscript and any accompanying figures and tables and are requested to direct the manuscripts to the
most appropriate Editor.
Once the uploading is done, the system automatically generates an electronic (PDF) proof, which is then
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and will reach the corresponding author by e-mail.
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Editorial Policy
Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two referees. Should a revised manuscript be required by the editors,
the authors are requested to resubmit their revised manuscript to the journal within 6 months time. Studies on humans submitted to the
journal must comply with the principles laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki (Br Med J 1964; 2: 177-178). The editors retain the
right to reject papers on the grounds that, in their opinion, the ethical justification is questionable. Manuscripts may be edited to
improve clarity and expression.
Manuscripts that are not published and that are not resubmitted in revised form will be destroyed
within 1 year of the date of submission.
Language
Manuscripts should be typed in English
Preparation of Manuscripts
Title Page
The title page should be included in the main body of the text, along with the abstract and keywords.
The title of paper (only the first letter of the first word of the title should be capitalized), and authors' full names (do
not use initials and academic degrees) and complete mailing addresses, including zip codes (USA) or country codes should be provided
for the corresponding author (more simplified addresses may be provided for co-authors but should at least provide department, institution,
city, state and country). An asterisk should be placed after the name of the author to whom correspondence and reprint requests should
be addressed. Superscript letters (a, b, c, etc.) should be used to indicate the departmental and institutional affiliation of each author.
If all authors are in the same department at the same institution, superscript letters are not required. The corresponding author's fax,
telephone, and e-mail numbers should be supplied.
The Abstract should be 150-200 words for full-length articles and 50 words
for brief reports.
The abstract should be followed by 3 to 6 keywords (3 keywords for brief reports). Note that the keywords
should not duplicate words used in the title of the article, which will be automatically indexed.
Text
Although exceptions
will be considered, manuscripts should not exceed 5000 words, and shorter manuscripts (e.g., 3000 words) are preferred. Each article
should contain the following major headings: Introduction (preceded by arabic number 1.), Methods (preceded by number 2.), Results (preceded
by number 3.), Discussion (preceded by number 4.), Acknowledgment (optional section following the discussion, which should not be preceded
by a numeral), and References (should not be preceded by a numeral).
Subheadings should follow the numbering system used in the major
heading; for example, the subheading "Subjects" within the Methods section should be flush left on a separate line and designated 2.1.,
the subheading "Procedures" should be designated 2.2., etc.
Lower level headings, if required, should also be numbered (e.g., "2.1.1.
Patients." as a lower order heading under "2.1. Subjects."). Only the first letter of the first word of each heading should be capitalized.
The use of abbreviations within the text should be minimized, and each abbreviation, when introduced, must be defined and used consistently
thereafter. Systeme International measurements should be used. For products or instruments (do not abbreviate) used in the research reported,
provide the name, city and country of the supplier in parentheses. All tables and figures must be referred to in the text.
Brief
Reports
Brief Reports should not exceed 1500 words, including 50-word abstract, 3 keywords, text, and references plus 1 table
or 1 figure.
Case Reports
Case reports will only be considered as letters to the editor (maximum of 500 words and no
references)
The Introduction
The introduction should be brief and explain the purpose of the study; an extensive review
of the literature should be avoided, but directly relevant articles by other investigators, as well as by the authors themselves, must
be cited. If the paper includes subjects who have been included in previous reports, references should be provided and the number of
subjects whose data have been included elsewhere should be specified.
Materials and Methods
Materials and Methods should
contain sufficient detail to enable others to repeat the procedures without studying the references directly.
Results
The Results should summarize the most important data, and statistical correlations should be included. Tabular data should not be duplicated,
important points and trends should be pointed out. The final sentence should emphasize the importance attached to the observations.
Acknowledgement
The Acknowledgement section is optional and should also be used for grant-support information.
Funding
body agreements and policies
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Discussion
The discussion should relate directly to the study being reported and give perspective to the adequacy of the materials and methods for
the purpose of the study. Results should be interpreted to lend meaning to the observations. Any discrepancies with previously published
results should be explained. The paper should conclude with a brief statement regarding the significance of the study.
Statistical
Reporting
Study group variability should be reported as the standard deviation, not the standard error. In addition to the probability
value, be sure to specify full details of the statistical analysis performed (e.g., name of statistical test used, test value, one-tailed
or two-tailed test used,
degrees of freedom or number of subjects, and probability level). Authors should also explicitly state what
hypothesis is being tested. Probability values should be presented as uppercased, italicized P; r, t, F, df, and n should also be italicized.
Leading zeroes should be used throughout.
References
Literature citations. References in the text to literature cited
should be given by the name of the author(s), followed by the year of publication in parentheses, e.g.: Smith and Smith (1994) or (Allen
et al., 1952; Smith, 1966a, 1966b; Jones and Jones, 1993). For three or more authors, the name of
the first author followed by et al.
should be used. References listed within parentheses should be in chronological order. Articles published by the same author(s) in the
same year should be designated "a," "b," etc. (note that the a/b designation corresponds to the order in which each article appears
in
the reference list, not to the order of first citation within the manuscript). All references cited in the text must be included in the
reference list. Check carefully to insure that the spelling of names in the text matches that in the reference list and that the date
in the text matches the date in the reference list.
Reference list: References should be arranged in alphabetical order by first
author and should not be numbered. For single-authored articles, if more than one article by the same author is included, list each reference
in chronological order. If both articles were published in the same year, alphabetize by the first major word of the article title and
designate the first listed article as "a," the second as "b," etc. For multi-authored articles, list in alphabetical order by (1) last
name of first author, (2) last name of second author, etc. If the names of all authors are identical, list in chronological order. If
both authors' names and year of publication are the same, alphabetize by the first major word of the article title.
Provide the
last names and first initials of all authors (do not use et al. in the reference list). Journal titles should not be abbreviated. Be
sure that all references are complete: journal articles should include authors, year of publication, article title, full journal name,
volume number, and beginning and concluding page numbers. Book chapters should include authors, year of publication, chapter title, name(s)
of volume editor(s), volume title, volume number (if any), name of publisher, city of publication, and page numbers. Books should include
author(s) or editor(s), year of publication, book title, publisher, and city of publicaiton. Include only references that have been cited
in the text.
Examples of typical types of references follow. In addition to the particular reference styles, the examples illustrate
the order in which references should be listed and give examples of "a" and "b" designations.
Bernstein, T.M., 1985. The Careful
Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage. Atheneum, New York.
Buchsbaum, M.S., 1990. Frontal lobes, basal ganglia, temporal lobes--three
sites for schizophrenia? Schizophrenia Bulletin 16, 377-378.
Buchsbaum, M.S., Holcomb, H.H., DeLisi, L.E., Hazlett, E., 1986. Brain
imaging in affective disorders. In: Rush, A.J., Altshuler, K.Z. (Eds.), Depression: Basic Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Treatment. The Guilford
Press, New York, pp. 126-142.
Issa, F., Gerhardt, G.A., Bartko, J.J., Suddath, R.L., Lynch, M. Gamache, P.H., Freedman, R., Wyatt,
R.J., Kirch, D.G., 1994a. A multidimensional approach to analysis of cerebrospinal fluid biogenic amines in schizophrenia: I. Comparisons
with healthy control subjects and neuroleptic-treated/unmedicated pairs analyses. Psychiatry Research 52, 237-249.
Issa, F., Kirch,
D.G., Gerhardt, G.A., Bartko, J.J., Suddath, R.L., Freedman, R., Wyatt, R.J., 1994b. A multidimensional approach to analysis of cerebrospinal
fluid biogenic amines in schizophrenia: II. Correlations with psychopathology. Psychiatry Research 52, 251-258.
Strunk, W., White,
E.B., 1979. The Elements of Style, 3rd ed. MacMillan, New York.
The correctness of the reference list is the entire responsibility
of the author! Please check it carefully and remember to recheck when your article has been revised. Unpublished results should not be
included in the reference list but, rather, should be quoted in the text (Smith and co-workers, unpublished results).
Tables and
Figures
Tables: Tables should be typed with double spacing and should be uploaded separately, numbered consecutively with
Arabic numerals, and should contain horizontal lines only. A short descriptive heading should be provided above with any footnotes and/or
explanations below.
Figures: Figures and Photographs of good quality should be submitted online as a separate file. Please
use a lettering that remains clearly readable even after reduction to about 66% (lettering should be no smaller than 2 mm after reduction).
In preparing figures, bear in mind the dimensions of the page and columns (typesetting area 15.8 x 20.8 cm and 7.4 x 20.8 cm, respectively).
For every figure or photograph, a legend should be provided.
All authors wishing to use illustrations already published must first
obtain the permission of the author and publisher and/or copyright holders and give precise reference to the original work. This permission
must include the right to publish in electronic media.
Footnotes: These should be avoided; when essential, these should be
numbered consecutively and typed at the foot of the appropriate page.
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Supplementary material (when applicable)
Elsevier now also accepts electronic
supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files will be published online with the electronic
version of your article in Elsevier web products, including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com.
NOTE: Your
published article will be assigned a digital object identifier (DOI) which is used to cite and link to the electronic documents. The
DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic
publication. The DOI will never change. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly Articles in Press because
they have not yet received their full bibliographic information. The DOI can also be used to create an URL hyperlink to supplementary
material associated to an article.
When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed never
to change.
Readers will complete the following steps to view the supplementary material for your paper:
1. Open the following
DOI site with a browser:
http://dx.doi.org
2. Enter the entire DOI citation in the text box provided, and then click
Go.
The article or supplementary material that matches the DOI citation appears in the browser window.
The DOI scheme is administered
by the International DOI Foundation. Many of the world's leading learned publishers have come together to build a DOI-based article linking
scheme known as CrossRef.
The article in the journal must be complete and fully comprehensible without reference to the Supplementary
Material. The purpose of Supplementary Material is to provide additional and usually more detailed information for readers who are particularly
interested in the study. Supplementary Material is not an integral part of a published paper; the suitability of the Supplementary Material
is assessed by the editor but it is not subject to the peer review procedure as applied to articles in the journal.
Supplementary
Material may either accompany the first version of a manuscript submitted to the journal or in response to a request from an editor.
Scope of Supplementary material. Several types of material may be included in Supplementary Material. These may include
more detailed tables of demographic data and of results and statistical analyses. In other cases, Supplementary Material provides an
opportunity for authors to publish questionnaires used for data collection that are too long for inclusion in the journal article. Additional
and more detailed figures and photographs, including colour pictures, can be reproduced in this way.
There is also a possibility
of supplying audio and video files as Supplementary Material; in such cases, authors are advised to seek the advice of the Editor before
preparing the material.
Format for submission. Supplementary Material should begin with a statement of the Title and Authors
of an article exactly as they appear in the main manuscript, followed by the statement "This material supplements but does not replace
the content of the peer-reviewed paper published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging". Authors should ensure that the journal
article contains at least one footnote referring to the Supplementary Material.
The text of the Supplementary Material should to
the extent possible be styled according to the usual format of the journal. However, when the intention is to display materials in an
existing format (e.g. a questionnaire or psychological test materials), they may be reproduced without change.
Word-processor or
rtf files for widely-used computer systems are acceptable. Word-processor files may include graphics. Separate graphic items may also
be submitted in standard file formats such as metafiles, bitmaps, jpg or gif. Scanned images are acceptable but image sizes, colour depth
and resolution should be adjusted to the minimum necessary to convey the required information at high quality. Files should not be submitted
in proprietary formats that cannot be read without special software. At this time only media that can be read by Windows systems can
be accepted.
Supplementary Material relating to a particular article may be submitted as more than one file.
Colourful e-Products
Figures that appear in black & white in print can appear in colour, online. There is no extra charge for authors who participate.
For colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted
article. Please indicate your preference for colour in print or on the Web only. Because of technical complications which can arise by
converting colour figures to "grey scale" (for the printed version should you not opt for colour in print), please submit in addition
usable black and white versions of all the colour illustrations. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please
see
http://www.elsevier.com/artwork
Dues-paying members of the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry
(ISNIP) are entitled to one free page of colour per year.
Changes to Authorship
This policy concerns the addition, deletion,
or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the accepted manuscript is published in an
online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal Manager from the
corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names
rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement.
In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed.
Requests that are
not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who must follow the procedure
as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and (2) publication of the accepted
manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After the accepted manuscript is published in an
online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue will follow the
same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.
Copyright Transfer
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author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms
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238 2239, e-mail healthpermissions@elsevier.com.
Requests for materials from other Elsevier publications may also
be completed on-line via the Elsevier homepage
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions.
Proofs
Proofs
will be sent to the corresponding author to be checked for typesetting errors. No changes or additions to the accepted manuscript will
be allowed at this stage. Corrected proofs should be returned to the publisher within 48 hours of receipt. Page charges will not be made.
Reprints
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. The PDF file
is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining
the terms and conditions of use.
