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Prepare your manuscript for European Journal of Psychotraumatology.

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Article types

Review
Clinical Trial
Editorial
Protocol
Research Article
Review Article
Systematic Review
Case Report
Letter
Research Letter
Book Review
Registered Report
Data Note
Methods Article
Lectio

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 300 words.
  • Use a structured abstract.
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  • The abstract structure should be as follows: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion.
  • Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section.
  • There are no strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to evaluate a manuscript: abstract, author affiliation, figures, tables, funder information, references.
  • Please include a section entitled ‘ Highlights ’ below the abstract with three bullet points covering the essence of the research and provide readers with a quick overview of the article.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Abstract.
  • A structured abstract of no more than 300 words.
  • A structured abstract should cover (in the following order): Background, Objective, Method, Results, Conclusions.

Keywords

  • Provide 3-6 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Should contain between 3 and 6 keywords.
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  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Keywords.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Software and Code Availability: Authors must include a software availability statement, which authors should add to the end of the article, before the references list.
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  • All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
  • Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • If you reply yes, you will be required to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Software and Code Availability: Code and software should be cited in the body of your article, be added to your reference list as you would any other bibliographic citation.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: References.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size).
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  • Figures should be of sufficient resolution to enable refereeing.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages).
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Figures.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Figure captions (as a list).

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Data availability statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Data availability statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Depending on the journal’s data sharing policy, authors may be required to provide a data availability statement, even where there is no data associated with the article.
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  • In this instance, the data availability statement should read: “No data are associated with this article.”.
  • Authors are required to Authors are required to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.
  • Software and Code Availability: Authors must make the source code available on a Version Control System (VCS) such as GitHub and provide details of the repository and the license under which the software can be used.
  • Research Article / Data Note: The dataset of Data Notes can be either original (not previously published) or be issued from a published research article as long as the datasets have not already been published.Further to the data sharing policy for the journal, Data Note submissions must include a data availability statement and describe data available via a repository.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Data Availability Statement.
  • Please place the data availability statement after the conclusion, in the main body of the manuscript.
  • Articles need to meet the Open Science Badges criteria in order to earn a badge.

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Ethics and Consent: All research must be conducted within an appropriate ethical framework.
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  • Protocol: Details of approval by the authors’ institution or an ethics committee must be provided in the Methods section of the Study Protocol.
  • In settings where ethics approval for non-interventional studies (e.g. surveys) is not required, authors must include a statement to explain this.
  • Authors should familiarise themselves with our policy on participant/patient privacy and informed consent.
  • Review: All original research papers involving humans, animals, plants, biological material, protected or non-public datasets, collections or sites, must include a written statement in the Methods section, confirming ethical approval has been obtained from the appropriate local ethics committee or Institutional Review Board and that where relevant, informed consent has been obtained.
  • Editorial: Consent All authors are required to follow the ICMJE requirements and Taylor & Francis Editorial Policies on privacy and informed consent from patients and study participants.
  • Authors must include a statement to confirm that any patient, service user, or participant (or that person’s parent or legal guardian) in any type of qualitative or quantitative research, has given informed consent to participate in the research.
  • Case Report: a clinical case report detailing their medical history, identifiable images or media content, etc), authors must include a statement to confirm that they have obtained written informed consent to publish the details from the affected individual (or their parents/guardians if the participant in not an adult or unable to give informed consent; or next of kin if the participant is deceased).
  • Case Report: For submissions where patients or participants can be potentially identified (e.g.

Cover letter

  • License: Must be an open license and preferably an OSI-approved license.
  • Using third-party material in your paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
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  • Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Author contributions

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.

Title page and author information

  • Please include all authors’ full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the title page.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Title page.
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  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • Research Article: The latter should have the same structure as a research article but are short and concise (max 1000 words).
  • EJPT prefers short titles: these should conform to APA guidelines and preferably contain no more than 12 words.
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  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Please note that discounts must be applied at the Charges stage of the submission process when the APC quote is confirmed and may not be considered after submission.
  • Please contact secretariat@estss.org to find out how to obtain this discount before you submit your article.
  • Systematic Review: As a general guideline, the inclusion period for systematic reviews should not extend beyond six months prior to submission.
  • These should include adequate and appropriate validation to be considered.
  • Any datasets associated with the paper must publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible.
  • If there are concerns about identifying factors in datasets, these should be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief prior to submission.
  • Please note, this is not required for submission but is encouraged.
  • Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
  • You will also need to upload your LaTeX source files, which should be uploaded as a single zip file alongside your submission and marked as “LaTeX Source Files”.
  • Clinical Trial: Clinical trials should be registered prospectively – i.e. before participant recruitment.
  • Editorial: Authors of retrospectively registered trials must be prepared to provide further information to the journal editorial office if requested.
  • Clinical Trial: The clinical trial registry should be publicly accessible (at no charge), open to all prospective registrants, and managed by a not-for-profit organization.
  • All research studies on humans (individuals, samples, or data) must have been performed in accordance with the principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki.
  • Please include all relevant safety precautions; and cite any accepted standard or code of practice.
  • All articles submitted to EJPT must: report the sex of research subjects.
  • All articles submitted to EJPT must: justify single sex studies.
  • All articles submitted to EJPT must: discriminate between sex and gender (mostly for human research).
  • All articles submitted to EJPT must: discuss sex and gender issues when relevant.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: Details of the badges offered by the journal.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: Links to additional information.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: An open practices disclosure form.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: The journal editor’s email address.
  • Clinical Trial / Protocol: Clinical trials: If the study protocol relates to a clinical trial then the Trial Registration details must be provided: name of registry, registry number, registration date and URL of the trial in the registry database.
  • The article should provide examples of suitable input data sets and include an example of the output that can be expected from the tool and how this output should be interpreted.
  • Data Note: Data Notes should only describe the data.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • For legal purposes, we must explain that the Publishers of EJPT; Informa, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the translation.
  • Informa shall not be liable for any losses, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use of the translation.
  • Please note that data should only be shared if it is ethically correct to do so, where this does not violate the protection of human subjects, or other valid ethical, privacy, or security concerns.
  • Clinical Trial: Clinical Trials Registry In order to be published in a Taylor & Francis journal, all clinical trials must have been registered in a public repository, ideally at the beginning of the research process (prior to participant recruitment).
  • The process of obtaining consent to publish should include sharing the article with the individual (or whoever is consenting on their behalf), so that they are fully aware of the content of the article before it is published.
  • Such as: The standards on Data, Materials, and Analytical Code Transparency speak to the items generated over the course of the study and how you should preserve or share them.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Acknowledgments.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Declaration of Interest Statement.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Software Availability Statement.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Appendices (as appropriate).
  • If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in the submission centre.
  • If the data cannot be made open, we recommend it is still preserved in a FAIR-compliant repository with appropriate access and controls in place.
  • The Open Materials badge is earned by making publicly available the components of the research methodology needed to reproduce the reported procedure and analysis.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.
  • We understand that exceptions will need to be made in cases where, for example, data sets are sensitive and the sharing of data conflicts with the need to protect personal identities.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Data Note: (no more than 3000 words) should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, Data description, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; author contributions statement and ethics; data availability statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list); should contain an structured abstract of 250 words.
  • In some cases the word limit can be exceeded as we are an online journal, but in principle this should be avoided.
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  • In some cases, for longer article, the word limit can be exceeded as we are an online journal, but in principle this should be avoided.
  • Data Availability: In general, this article type should not include new research and data.
  • Method (between 2500 and 4000 words) should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; author contributions statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Main text: Introduction, Methods, Results, Use Cases, Discussion.

Language and text style

  • Discount codes must be presented at quotation and cannot be applied retrospectively.
  • Please do not use abbreviations that lay persons may not understand.

Manuscript structure

  • Data Note: Data Notes do not include any interpretation or conclusion of the data (see preparing your paper).
  • Authors are required to make the data and materials supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper freely available.
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  • All articles submitted to EJPT must: analyze how sex or gender impact the results.
  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.
  • In addition, authors of meta-analyses should include the information recommended by the APA's Meta-Analysis Reporting Methods (MARS) which can be found here ( http://www.apastyle.org/manual/related/JARS-MARS.pdf ).
  • Clinical Trial: However, for clinical trials that have not been registered prospectively, Taylor & Francis journals requires retrospective registration to ensure the transparent and complete dissemination of all clinical trial results which ultimately impact human health.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Study Protocols should follow the relevant reporting guideline for the study.
  • For animal studies, approval must have been obtained from the local or institutional animal use and care committee.
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  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).

Blinded manuscript

  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 300 words
Keywords: 3-6 keywords
Declarations: Data availability, Ethics, Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

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