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Author Guidelines

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Types of papers The Journal welcomes:

• Original basic and clinical research articles (click here to download guidelines) that consolidate and expand the theoretical and professional basis of the field of traumatic stress (max 6000 words incl. references, excl. tables/figures)
• Review articles including meta-analyses (max 6000 words incl. references, excl. tables/figures)
• Short communications presenting new ideas or early-stage promising research (max 3000 words incl. references, excl. tables/figures)
• Study protocols that describe proposed or ongoing research, including the rational, hypothesis, and methodology of the study (max 6000 words incl. references, excl. tables/figures)(click here for more information and an example)
• Case reports (click here to download guidelines) examining a single individual or event in a real-life context (max 3000 words incl. references, excl. tables/figures)
• Clinical practice papers sharing experience from the clinic (max 6000 words incl. references, excl. tables/figures)
• Letters to the Editor debating articles already published in the Journal (max 1000 words incl references)
• Book Reviews (max 1000 words)
• PhD thesis Summary (in the form of a supplement)

In exceptional cases the word limit can be exceeded, but in principle this should be avoided. Supplementary material, like large tables, data sets, protocols, videos, questionnaires, non-English versions of the article can be uploaded as supplementary material and will thus also be available online.

Checklists and guidelines Please make use of checklists that are available for a number of study designs, including randomized controlled trials (CONSORT). Here you will also find quidelines for meta-analyses (MOOSE) and on studies of diagnostic accuracy (STARD). Further useful links are those to systematic reviews Cochrane Reviewers' Handbook and PRISMA, and to observational studies (STROBE).

Cover Letter In the cover letter, the corresponding author should reveal whether the submitted article – or very similar work - has been previously published or orally presented, or is under consideration elsewhere. If the manuscript forms part of a book currently in press, the authors should specify details of the publisher and expected date of publication. The author should also indicate if he/she is a member of ESTSS and and if so, give the membership details.

The authors are also encouraged to list at least 2 potential reviewers with full name, institution, email address and area of expertise. Please note: the suggested reviewers should not be from the authors’ own institute, nor a co-author of any published paper/papers of the present author/authors. The Editors reserve the right of final selection.

Acknowledgements All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chairperson who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.

Conflict of interest and funding Authors are responsible for disclosing financial support from the industry or other conflicts of interest that might bias the interpretation of results.

Ethics and consent When reporting experiments on patients or animals, please indicate whether the procedures followed were approved by your local ethics committee and/or in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/17c.pdf).

Language All articles should be written in English - British or American as long as consistency is observed. SI units should be used.

TranslationsESTSS acknowledges the very important role played by scientific literature published in countries where English is not the first language, and seeks to increase visibility of literature that would otherwise be accessible only within the borders of those countries. For this reason, the Journal encourages authors to submit their paper in the original language as well, for co-publication with the official English-language version.

The English abstract will be translated into German (Rita Rosner), French (Louis Jehel and Yann Quidé), Italian (Laura Porry), Spanish (Dani Mosca and Dolores Mosquera), Russian (Marina Scherbak), Turkish (Gözde Koçak), and Polish (Maja Lis-Turlejska). If anyone would like to translate the abstract into another language please contact the Editor, and we would be very happy to display this translation as well.

The translations can be found by clicking on the link below the English abstract or by clicking on Supplementary files (highlighted) in the column to the right (Reading Tools).

Publication fee Publishing of regular articles (i.e. not supplements) in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology is free of charge for members of the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). However, if the article emanates from a university or institute that maintains a central fund to cover costs for Open Access Publishing, or the article describes results from research funded by a positive Open Access funder, a publication fee will be charged as follows:

Publication of an Article (up to 8 typeset A4 pages) incurs a charge of €650, excl. VAT. Articles exceeding 8 typeset pages incur an additional charge of €25 per page. The publication of a Short Communication (up to 4 typeset A4 pages) incurs a charge of €350, excl. VAT. One typeset page contains 800-900 words, tables and figures excluded.

A PhD thesis Summary will be published in the form of a Supplement and incurs a cost of €650, excl. VAT, up to 8 typeset pages. Papers exceeding 8 typeset pages will incur an additional fee of €15 per page. ESTSS members will receive a 10% discount.

Please make sure to indicate, e.g. in the cover letter, if you are a member of ESTSS.

For a list of universities/institutes and funders supporting Open Access publication, please see here. Additional information on how to claim reimbursement/support for publication fees can be found here.

For non-ESTSS members a publication fee will be charged as follows:
Publication of an Article (up to 8 typeset A4 pages) incurs a charge of €650, excl. VAT (Europe), or $880 (rest of the world). Articles exceeding 8 typeset pages incur an additional charge of €25/$35 per page. The publication of a Short Communication (up to 4 typeset A4 pages) incurs a charge of €350, excl. VAT (Europe), or $475 (rest of the world).

For a list of universities/institutes and funders supporting Open Access publication, please see here. Additional information on how to claim reimbursement/support for publication fees can be found here.

Open Access Key As a Co-Action Publishing author you are now able to manage your publication fee using Open Access Key (OAK).

Co-Action Publishing is one of the first publishers in the world to implement OAK, a unique new online payment platform designed to manage and consolidate author publication fees and connect authors to their universities, research funders or learned societies. To register and start using Open Access Key, please visit http://www.openaccesskey.com

MANUSCRIPT LAYOUT - research articles
(Click here to download the guidelines in PDF format)

Wherever possible, the paper should follow the traditional layout: Title, Biographical details, Abstract, Keywords, Background, Objective, Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, References, Tables, Figures.

Title The title should be informative and accurate and at the same time trigger the interest of the reader. A short running head will be derived from the title to appear on each page of the paper.

Title page Organize the title page in the following way: 1) title of manuscript, 2) name of author(s), 3) name of department(s) and institution(s), and 4) name and full postal and email address of the corresponding author who also acts as 'Guarantor' for all parts of the paper. Please observe that the journal adheres to a 'double blind' review process and thus, the identity of the authors should remain unknown until the paper is accepted; the submitted paper should not include author name, affiliation and corresponding author address. Please see Ensuring a Blind Review

Abstract Articles must include a structured abstract of 200-300 words providing sufficient information for a reader to be able to decide whether or not to proceed to the full text of the article. The abstract should be structured in the following way (incl. these headings): Background, Objective, Method, Results, Conclusions.

Keywords After the abstract, please give 5-10 key words for readers looking for material by key word searching on Internet. Avoid using the same words as in the title.

Figures Upon acceptance please supply figures/graphics/images in at least 300 dpi. For further information please see Guidelines.

If the figures/graphics/images have been taken from sources not copyrighted by the author, it is the author’s sole responsibility to secure the rights from the copyright holder to reproduce those figures/graphs/images for both worldwide print and web publication. All reproduction costs charged by the copyright holder must be borne by the author.

When figures/graphics/images are reproduced, a parenthesis should be added to the figure legend thus: (Reproduced with permission from xxx.)

Section headings Please do not number section headings. Use a maximum of three levels of headings made clear by orthographic indicators, i.e. capitals, italics, bold etc.

Quotations Please use double quotation marks. Quotations longer than 40 words should appear in a separate paragraph, indented by tapping a ca 1cm right margin, without quotation marks.

Citation and reference system The European Journal of Psychotraumatology applies to the APA system. Check for full details here or here (oral presentation).

APA style uses the author-date citation system allowing the readers to find the sources cited in the text in the reference list, where each source is listed alphabetically.

Style in the text:

To insert a citation in text, include the author’s surname and year of publication. For a direct quotation, include the page number of specific location of the phrase or sentences in the original work.

EXAMPLES:

• Kessler (2003) found that among epidemiological samples ...
• Early onset results in a more persistent and severe course (Kessler, 2003)
• In 2003, Kessler’s study of epidemiological samples showed that …
• Training materials are available (Department of Veterans Affairs, 2001, 2003)
• Several studies (Derryberry & Reed, 2005a, 2005b, in press-a, Rothbart, 2003a, 2003b) show...

 

Style in the reference list:

All citations should be listed in the reference list, with the exception of personal communications and classical works.

Put references in order by the author’s surname or first author’s surname if there is more than one author.

Use the hanging indent paragraph style. Double-space the entire reference list.

EXAMPLES:

Journal:

Mikulincer, M., Gerber, H., & Weisenberg, M. (1990). Judgment of control and depression: The role of self-esteem threat and self-focused attention. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 14, 589-608.

Herbst-Damm, K. L., & Kulik, J. A. (2005). Volunteer support, marital status, and the survival times of terminally ill patients. Health Psychology, 24, 225–229. doi:10.1037/0278-6133.24.2.225

Book:

Mitchell, T. R., & Larson, J. R., Jr. (1987). People in organizations: An introduction to organizational behavior (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Electronic book with DOI:

Schiralde, G. R. (2001). The post-traumatic stress disorder sourcebook: A guide to healing, recovery, and growth [Adobe Digital Editions version]. DOI: 10.1036/10071393722

Chapter in book:

Haybron, D. M. (2008). Philosophy and the science of subjective well-being. In M. Eid & R. J. Larsen (Eds.), The science of subjective well-being (pp. 17-43). New York, NY: Guildford Press.

Electronic documents:

Make sure the version you are citing is the most recent one. Include journal volume number and inclusive page numbers if this information is available. Use the copy-paste function of your word processor to capture the article DOI and place it at the end of the reference. If there is no DOI, cite the home page URL.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. I, the corresponding author, am authorized by all of my co-authors to submit this paper. The paper has not been submitted, in its current version, to any other journal. The journal adheres to a 'double blind' review process and thus the identity of the authors should remain unknown until the paper is accepted.. The instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
2. The article contains nothing obscene, indecent, objectionable or libelous.
3. I/we have strictly followed the guidelines provided and made sure that:
   - the URLs to access references online are provided and ready to click (e.g., www.eurojnlofpsychotraumatol.net)
   - only one space has been entered after the full-stop at the end of a sentence
   - the text has not been justified; a ragged right-hand margin has been used
   - a double hyphen (--) has been used to indicate a dash in text
   - TAB has been used when indenting paragraphs or separating columns in tables
   - 'italics' or single quotes have been used for emphasis (avoid using underlines!)
   - the same elements have been keyed in exactly the same way throughout the manuscript
4. A cover letter has been provided, revealing whether the submitted article – or very similar work - has been previously published or orally presented, or is under consideration elsewhere. If the manuscript forms part of a book currently in press, I/we have specified details of the publisher and expected date of publication. I/we have indicated if the corresponding author is a member of ESTSS and and if so, have given the membership details.
   I/we have suggested at least 2 potential reviewers with full name, institution, email address and area of expertise.
5. Upon acceptance I/we will provide a complete manuscript as a text file (Word, RTF, WordPerfect), with all tables, legends and supplemental material (if applicable) placed at the end of the manuscript after the reference list. Also, each figure and supplemental material will be submitted separately in the original source file and in accordance with the guidelines provided.

Copyright Notice

Authors contributing to The European Journal of Psychotraumatology agree to publish their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unportedlicense, allowing third parties to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it, under the condition that the authors are given credit, that the work is not used for commercial purposes, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear.

Authors retain copyright of their work; however, authors are required to transfer copyrights associated with any commercial use to the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

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