Behavioural Pharmacology will
consider for publication papers in the following categories:
- Original research reports
- Short reports
- Reviews
- Commentaries
Short Reports should be
of no more than 1500 words and two tables of 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.
Submission
of Manuscripts
Manuscripts can be easily submitted online with Editorial Manager.
This automated, web-based tool simplifies the
manuscript submission and review processes and
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Conflict
of Interest
Authors are expected to
disclose any commercial or other associations that might pose
a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article.
All funding sources supporting the work, and institutional or
corporate affiliations of the authors, should be acknowledged
on the title page. Articles are considered for publication on
the understanding that neither the article nor its essential substance
has been or will be published elsewhere before appearing in Behavioural
Pharmacology. Abstracts and press reports published in
connection with scientific meetings are not considered to be publications.
Permissions
Materials copies from
other sources must be accompanied by a written statement from
both author and publisher giving permission to Behavioural
Pharmacology for reproduction. Obtain permission in writing
from at least one author of papers still in press, of unpublished
data, and of personal communications. It is the author's responsibility
to ensure that permissions are obtained.
Arrangement
of Manuscripts
Preface each paper with
a suitable title, the author(s) name(s), and the full address
of the institution in which the work was carried out (please identify
the author for proofs-giving telephone and tax numbers-for correspondence
and reprint requests), an abstract of no more than 200
words, and up to eight keywords. Research reports should
give an appropriate introduction, a single methods section
(with the methodology of all experiments reports), results,
and discussion. Either British or American spellings
are acceptable, but please be consistent. Authors should express
measurements in SI units, although they may include older
conventional units in parentheses if they wish. Except for units
of measurement, abbreviations should be spelt out on first
use, and should be standard. Drug names should be generic,
although authors may add brand names in parentheses if they wish.
Illustrations should
be likely numbered on the back in pencil, with orientation and
your name. We prefer glossy photographs or professionally prepared
line drawings; any lettering and symbols must be large enough
to stand reduction in size-publication could be delayed if lettering
or symbol are too small for half tones send unmounted glossy photographs
with explanatory legends on a separate sheet of paper. Please
send one set of photographs and attach a set of photocopies to
each copy of the manuscript. The cost of reproducing colour illustrations
is charged to the authors. Please contact the publishers for an
estimate of this cost.
Tables should bear
roman numerals and be typed on separate sheets of paper. Each
table requires a title, but no legend; identify footnotes by superscripts.
References follow
the Harvard system. In the text give the author(s) name and, in
parentheses, the date of the paper/book being cited. Differentiate
between papers by the same author in the same year by a, h, c
etc., immediately after the date. Where there are three more authors
use et al. in the text and a, h, 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 author, list single
author works, next joint authored work in alphabetical order,
last multiauthored works in chronological order. Each reference
should give the names an initials of all authors the year of publication,
the title of the paper, the name of the journal or book (Index
Medicus abbreviations for journal names should be used; book
title should be provided in full), the volume or edition, the
first and last page, and, for books, the publisher and town of
publication. For example:
Oglesby MW, Shippenberg
TS, Herz A (1988). Tolerance and cross-tolerance to the discriminative
stimulus properties of fentanyl and morphine. J Pharmacol Exp
Ther 245:17-23.
Sanger DJ (1986). Drug
taking as adjunctive behaviour In: Behavioural analysis of
drug dependence Goldberg R, Stolerman IP (editors). New York:
Academic Press. pp. 123-160.
Thompson T, Pickens R,
Meish R (Eds) (1970). Readings in behavioural pharmacology.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
Willner P (1984a). The
validity of animal models of depression. Psychopharmacology
83:1-16.
Proofs,
Reprints and Copyright
Authors will normally
be sent page proofs by tax where available. Such corrections as
are necessary should be listed in the form of a table with the
location of the correction in the left~hand column and the correction
required in the right-hand column. The table should be taxed to
the publishers within three days of proof receipt. Alterations,
other than essential corrections to the text of the paper, should
not be made at this stage; the cost of such alterations may be
passed on to the author.
A form for ordering reprints
will be supplied with the proofs and should be returned direct
to the publisher. Manuscripts are accepted for publication on
the understanding that exclusive copyright is assigned to the
publishers. However, this does not limit the freedom of the author(s)
to use material in the papers in any other published works.
Ethical
Policy
Studies using human subjects should
include a statement within the manuscript that subjects provided
informed consent for their participation and that the study was
approved by a local ethics commitee.
Studies using animal subjects must
conform to internationally accepted standards of animal welfare,
and authors should include an appropriate statement to
that effect, either within the manuscript, or in their covering
letter. Every effort should be made to minimize the number of
animals used.
The editors will welcome the submission
of work in any area of behavioural pharmacology. However, studies
that subject animals to pain or stress require special consideration
and three principles will be used to judge the ethics of such
work. First, experiments of this kind will be required to reach
a higher threshold of scientific quality in order to he publishable.
Second, the utility of the study will be addressed, in terms of
the balance between the distress inflicted and the likelihood
of benefit. Third, it must be demonstrated that the objectives
of the experiment could not have been achieved by the use of less
stressful procedures; the fact that a particular procedure
has been used in previously published work will not in itself
suffice. The editors believe that behavioural pharmacologists
apply strict ethical criteria to their work, and will have no
difficulty in meeting these requirements.
