Guidelines for Authors

Copyright

It is a condition of publication that the authors transfer the world copyright of their manuscripts to the publishers. All manuscripts should therefore be accompanied by a signed statement that the article is original, is not under consideration or has not been previously published. Nevertheless, authors will be entitled to publish any part of their work elsewhere without permission provided the usual acknowledgements are given. Authors will be notified if a request to publish a part or whole of their work is received. The assignment of the copyright will not affect subsisting patent rights or arrangements relating to them. Illustrations, tables or quotations from other publications are already copyrighted and can be reproduced only with written permission from the copyright owner. You, as author, are responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce illustrations or tables from another (copyrighted) source.

Authority and Responsibilities

The intellectual content of the paper is the responsibility of the authors. The Editor and the Publishers accept no responsibility for opinions and statements of authors. While every effort will be made by the Editor and Publishers to avoid inaccurate and misleading data, they accept no liability whatsoever for the consequences of wrong information. The authors undertake to keep the Editor and the Publishers fully and effectually indemnified against any liability or claims that may arise out of the publication of inaccurate and/or misleading data.

Manuscript Format

In order to facilitate the typesetting of your work, we request that the manuscript be submitted in electronic format whenever it is possible. To avoid heavily formatted documents that need to be "cleaned up" before typesetting, we request that you adhere to our guidelines. Please choose the word processing software you are going to use in this order of preference:

1. WordPerfect for Windows (any version)
2. Microsoft Word for Windows (any version)
3. WordPerfect for DOS (any version)
4. Microsoft Word for DOS (any version)
5. WordPerfect for Macintosh (any version)
6. Microsoft Word for Macintosh (any version)
7. If you do not have access to any of these programs, please use the word processor you are familiar with and indicate the name of the software, its version, and the operating system on the disk label as described later in this section.

Style

Standard abbreviations, symbols, and acronyms must be used throughout. Statistical analysis must explain the methods used. The Editor reserves the right to alter manuscripts whenever necessary to make them conform to our stylistic and bibliographic conventions.

Citations

References in the text should be cited by author name and date (in chronological order, where necessary), as in the following examples:

• Smith (1983) showed that . . .
• A recent study (Tones, 1993) has indicated . . .
• Several reports (Jackson, 1976; Brown and Allsopp, 1981; Jenkins et al, 1992) have suggested . ..

• Journal and book titles should be underlined once, and volume numbers underlined twice - to indicate to the printer italic and bold faces respectively.
• et al is not used for multiple-author papers; all authors' names should be given.
• Journal titles should be given in full.
• Unpublished work, work in preparation or personal communications should not be used as references but merely mentioned in the text. References should be set out in the style of the following examples:

• Journal article; one author: Daly, H.E. (1990). Towards some operational principles of sustainable development. Ecological Economics. 2, 1-6
• Journal article: two or more authors: Webb, LJ., Tracey, J.G.Williams,W.T.and Lance,G.N. (1971).Prediction of agricultural potential from intact forest vegetation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 8, 99-121
• Book, numbered edition: Burns,W. (1973). Noise and Man, 2nd edition. (London: Illiffe Books)
• Article in numbered congress; volume number: Hatano, T. and Tsutsumi, H. (1960).Dynamical compressive deformation and failure of concrete under earthquake load. In 2nd World Congress on Earthquake Engineering, Vol. III, pp. 1963-78. (Tokyo: Science Council of Japan)
• Paper presented: Eaton, KH., Mayne,J.R. and Menzies, J.B. ( 1974). Wind pressures on low-rise buildings at Aylesbury. Presented at the Symposium on Full-Scale Fluid Dynamic Measurements, July, Leicester
• In press (fill in current year): Arthur, S. (19 --). Species diversity and economics. Environmental Conservation, in press
• Book: Whittaker, R.H. (1970). Communities and Ecosystems, pp. 19-26. (New York: Macmillan)
• Article in an edited book Childe, V.G. (1954) . Early forms of society. In Slinger, CJ., Holonyard, EJ. and Hall, A.R. (eds.) A History of Technology, pp. 38-43. (New York: Oxford University Press)

Acknowledgements

The scientific and material contributions of others to the work should be acknowledged. Any grant supports should be listed and permission for reproduction of published material acknowledged.

Illustrations

Line drawings and photographs should be in a form suitable for reproduction; lettering should be clear and consistent in style. Keep a copy of all submitted material. Cite all illustrations in the text, numbering them with Arabic numerals, and indicate where they should appear by a marginal reference. Provide a legend for each figure, typed on a separate sheet - do not incorporate the legend in the figure itself.

Identify all abbreviations in the legend. Mark each figure lightly on the back, in soft pencil, withi ts number and your name. Identify the top unless it is obvious. Please supply photocopies of all figures with each copy of your manuscript.

Figures will normally have to be reduced in size to fit on the printed page - please try to allow for this when incorporating lettering or fine detail.

Use India ink on heavy white paper for line drawings and graphs. Use heavier lines for curves than you use for axes. Place labels parallel to the axes, using capital and lower case letters; put units of measurement in parentheses after the label (for example, 'Length (m)').

Photographs should be unmounted and have a glossy finish, with sharp contrast between black and white areas.

Where necessary, indicate a linear scale on the figure itself, or state the magnification in the legend. Provide a micron scale directly on micrographs.

Tables

Tables ideally should not have more than 80 characters to the line (counting spaces between columns as 4 characters) unless absolutely unavoidable. Each table should be on a separate page with its caption. Superscript numerals should be used for notes. All tables should be specifically referred to in the text, e.g. 'Table 3'. Identify all abbreviations in footnotes to the table.

Proofs

The designated author will receive a copy of the proofs, which should be read carefully for errors. Please remember that the proofs are merely to check for printer's spelling errors, etc. and not an opportunity to rewrite the text. These are to be proofread and marked appropriately. All editorial queries in the manuscript must be answered on them. The corrected proofs must be returned promptly. Authors will be asked to defray the expense of any major alterations to the proofs which are departures from the original copy.

Manuscript Submission

Note: A full manuscript is not necessary to submit for acceptance. Two chapters may be submitted for review and for determination of acceptability.

Authors should submit clearly labeled, virus-free 3½" diskette(s) containing the complete text of their work, along with two printed copies.

Use a separate file for each part of the manuscript:one each for the text, illustrations, tables, figure legends, bibligraphy, and references. Please note that even though many word processing programs allow graphics to be embedded in the text, we must have separate graphics files.

All copies of rejected manuscripts and accompanying illustrations will be returned to the authors if an envelope bearing sufficient return postage is included with the submission.

Manuscripts should be printed (or typed), double-spaced on one side of 8½" x 11" size paper, with a 1½" margin at the top and left-hand side of the sheet.

Double space everything including references and footnotes.

The manuscript pages should be numbered consecutively throughout the entire book (preferably in the upper right-hand corner. Begin numbering with page 1 of the text (Introduction, Part I, or Chapter 1). Do not number the preliminary material preceding the text or the illustrations.

Do not restart your numbering with each chapter.

Do not write text, instructions, or clarifications on the back of a manuscript page.

Do not staple inserts to the sides or backs of pages. Type an insert on a separate manuscript page and place it in the manuscript immediately after the page on which it is to appear. Number the insert page with the same number as the page on which it is to appear, but follow the number with an "A" (e.g., a page inserted after manuscript page 121 would be numbered as page 121A). If two pages are inserted, use "A," then "B," and so on. Indicate in the text where the added material is to be inserted. If you delete a page after you have numbered the manuscript, renumber the preceding page as a range (e.g., if page 90 has been deleted, page 89 should be renumbered as page 89-90).

Do not tape "Post-It" notes to the manuscript pages.

All manuscripts submitted for publication should be in English and sent to:

David MacIsaac, Ph.D.
Acquisition Editor
Psychoanalytic Publishers, Inc.
69 Surrey Lane
Tenafly, NJ   07670

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