Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
The submission is an original paper, which has not been previously published (except as abstract, proceeding, review, or thesis) and it is not being considered for publication elsewhere (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The manuscript comes along with a cover letter that responds to the following questions:
1. Why this study has been done?
2. How this study has been done?
Literature Review: consulted databases, number of articles found, number of articles included, inclusion and exclusion criteria, meta-analysis or descriptive work
Original article: study design, number of subjects included, study duration, etc.
3. What are the key findings?
4. What significance do your results have for the field and for the broader community?
(For Letters to the Editor this criterion is not required. Nevertheless, agree with this term to continue.)
Within the cover letter, 5 reviewers are indicated.
Any suggested peer reviewer have not published with any of the authors of the manuscript before, are not current collaborators or members of the same research institution.
(For Letters to the Editor this criterion is not required. Nevertheless, agree with this term to continue.)
The abstract is structured as follows: Background, Objectives, Methods, Results, and Discussion/Conclusion.
(For Letters to the Editor this criterion is not applicable. Nevertheless, agree with this term to continue.)
- Any financial arrangements, sources of funding, institutional affiliations, and any possible financial or personal conflicts are stated on the second page of the manuscript.
Manuscripts that report results of experimental investigation and interviews with human subjects include under "Methods" a statement that written informed consent was obtained, according to the regulation of clinical research in the correspondent country, and that the study was approved by a Research Ethical Board. Furthermore, they must confirm that animal trials are in accordance with ethical care standards required for animal experiments.
The manuscript is written in clear, comprehensible English. (If you have concerns about the level of English in your submission, please ensure that it is proofread before submission by a native English speaker or a scientific editing service prior to submission.)
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
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Once accepted for publication, the manuscript becomes permanent property of the Archives of Clinical Psychiatry. This copyright transfer subsumes exclusive and unlimited entitlement of the Archives of Clinical Psychiatry to publish and distribute the full contents of articles in whichever publishing medium, including press and electronic media, in Brazil and abroad.
Manuscripts are accepted with the understanding that the Editor and the editorial staff have the right to make revisions aimed at greater conciseness, clarity, and conformity with Journal style, of course without changing its content.
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