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Prepare your manuscript for Journal of Addictive Diseases.

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Article types

Review
Clinical Trial
Editorial
Systematic Review
Case Report
Letter
Protocol
Lectio
Review Article

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 250 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • Should be no more than 4000 words, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions.
  • Should contain a structured abstract of 200 words.
  • The structured abstract should be limited to 250 words and must include Background, Objective(s), Methods, Results, and Conclusions.
  • Should contain a structured abstract of 150 words.
  • These articles should be accompanied by a structured abstract of no more than 150 words.
  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  • Should contain a structured abstract of 300 words.
  • Abbreviations, diagrams, or citations should not be used in the abstract.
  • Clinical Trial: Studies that report findings from pre-registered clinical trials must include the clinical trial registration number at the end of the abstract.
  • Study data placed in a public repository must include the name of the repository, data set, and registration number included at the end of the abstract.
  • Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section.
  • The abstract should describe the specific objective(s) of the research, characteristics of the sample studied, recruitment and assessment methods employed, important findings, and should discuss research and clinical implications of the reported research along with any significant study limitations.
  • Title Page: The title page must include the word counts for the abstract and text of the report (excluding abstract, references, tables, figures) and list the number of tables and figures included in the manuscript.
  • 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, and references.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, funding and support, acknowledgements, references, tables, and figures.

Keywords

  • Provide 3-5 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Should contain between 3 and 5 keywords.
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  • Title Page: The title page must include between 3 and 5 keywords. (please use MeSH terms wherever possible; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh) Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.

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.
  • They should not exceed 1500 words (excluding references).
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  • Should be no more than 4000 words, inclusive of references.
  • These are articles which still provide an important contribution to the field, but do not have the depth or breadth of data to warrant a full report and should not exceed 1000 words, and include a maximum of two figures or tables and no more than 10 references.
  • Provide pertinent citations for all procedures.
  • 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.
  • Review: Include any reference numbers and the date of approval and indicate whether the research received full or expedited IRB/REC approval or a waiver of IRB/REC review (e.g., for de-identified survey data).

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.
  • All figures/tables should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript and a clear place-marker included in the main document showing where the table/figure should be inserted.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PDF, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.

Funding statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Title Page: Sources of support for the conduct and/or writing of the reported research, including grants, other funding, drugs, and equipment should be detailed.
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  • The source of funding should be clearly described under this heading, including any grant numbers and any in-kind support provided for the work.
  • Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows: For single agency grants.

Competing interests

  • Add or confirm the author-written Conflict of interest statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Title Page: The title page should include a conflict of interest declaration, addressing any potential conflicts of interest the author(s) may have in relation to the reported research.
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  • Letter: The cover letter should include a clear statement of financial and/or other relationships that might constitute a real or perceived conflict of interest vis-à-vis the reported research.

Data availability statement

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

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • In settings where ethics approval for non-interventional studies (e.g. surveys) is not required, authors must include a statement to explain this.
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  • Authors should familiarise themselves with our policy on participant/patient privacy and informed consent.
  • Review: The methods section must include a formal statement as to whether the research reported received Institutional Review Board (IRB)/Research Ethics Committee (REC) approval and should provide the name and location of the IRB/REC.
  • 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.

Blinded manuscript

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

Cover letter

  • Letter: Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
  • 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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  • Letter: The cover letter should also include a statement indicating that the submitted manuscript has been read and approved by all of the authors and should describe the individual contributions made by each author to the conduct and reporting of the research described in the submitted paper.
  • 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.

Title page and author information

  • Provide the author, affiliation, and correspondence details for the separate title page; Articlo creates the editable companion file.
  • Title Page: The Title should be clear and descriptive.
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  • Review: Title Page: A separate Title Page should also be prepared and submitted separately from the main document to maximize blinding in peer review.
  • Title Page: The corresponding author should be clearly identified in the title page.
  • Resident and medical student submissions must: Identify a faculty member as the corresponding author.
  • Non-clinical authors/assistants must: Identify a faculty member as the corresponding author.
  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • Title Page: The Title should accurately describe the work presented in the manuscript and, where appropriate, should make clear the methods used, the population and the key outcomes measured.
  • Title Page: The title page should include the article title, author information (highest degree, name(s) of the department, institution, and/or organization where the work was performed), and contact information (email address, phone number, physical address) for the corresponding author.
  • Letter: All submitted manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover letter addressed to the Editor-in-Chief including the name, address, phone number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
  • 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

  • Should be no more than 1000 words.
  • Should be no more than 1500 words.
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  • Should be no more than 1500.
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • Authors should strive to cite the most recent published literature.
  • The author (s) must describe the type of study performed such as randomized controlled trial (RCT), observational study, cross-sectional, or retrospective.
  • All procedures must be described in detail, including any drugs administered, a description of validated research instruments, any chemicals, and equipment used.
  • The author(s) should indicate if a biostatistician performed the analyses.
  • The findings should be discussed in the context of the existing literature and/or current practice.
  • Findings should then be assessed in terms of their generalizability to other study populations.
  • Limitations of the research should be explicitly discussed.
  • The role the funder/in-kind contributor had in conducting the research and preparing the manuscript should be clearly stated.
  • Commentaries should address an important clinical, policy, or research issue in the addictions and may be submitted at any time.
  • Review / Systematic Review: The Title must include either Systematic Review or Meta-Analyses as appropriate.
  • Review: Narrative reviews should generally conform to the same format for Systematic Reviews/Meta-Analyses with the exception of the Title including the terms Narrative Review.
  • Authors should follow the guidance for the specific type of manuscript being submitted.
  • Resident and medical student submissions must: Indicate faculty mentoring in the manuscript.
  • Resident and medical student submissions must: Identify a faculty member as the first author.
  • Non-clinical authors/assistants must: Indicate a faculty mentoring.
  • Non-clinical authors/assistants must: Identify a faculty member as the first author.
  • Where the manuscript has previously been submitted to one or more other journal(s), the titles of this/these journals should be provided.
  • Review: Use the Scale for the Assessment of Narrative Review Articles (SANRA) for narrative reviews.
  • Use the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ guideline) for reporting unstructured interviews and focus groups.
  • Use the Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research (SRQR guideline) for other qualitative research.
  • The Journal may require other guidelines based on the type of manuscript submitted.
  • Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
  • 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.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • Review: If an IRB/REC review involving human participants was not conducted the author(s) must explicitly state their reasoning and document how they ensured the participants’ safety and data integrity according to the internationally recognized ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and justice.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • 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.
  • 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.

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

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

Article type and manuscript length

  • Systematic Review: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses must include a structured abstract of no more than 300 words with the background, objectives, data sources, study appraisal and synthesis methods, results, and conclusions.
  • Where appropriate, acknowledgements should be made in a clearly labelled section at the end of the main text, just before the references.
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  • 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; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; main text; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Study reporting guidelines

  • Clinical Trial: Randomized Clinical Trials should adhere to the CONSORT Statement (http://www.consort-statement.org/) JAD has adopted the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf, December, 2015) guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts.
  • Use of Clinical Guidelines for Manuscripts The Journal of Addictive Diseases requires the use of an appropriate reporting guideline when submitting manuscripts.
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  • Systematic Review: Use the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline for systematic reviews or a meta-analysis.
  • Clinical Trial: Use the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) for randomized clinical trials.
  • Case Report: Use the Care Case Report Guidelines (CARE guideline) for reporting one case study or a series of case studies.
  • For animal studies, approval must have been obtained from the local or institutional animal use and care committee.
  • Letter: The cover letter should include a clear statement regarding any reporting guidelines/checklists used (such as PRISMA Checklist) in the preparation of the manuscript and any points where the manuscript does not adhere to these, along with the reasons for this.

Manuscript structure

  • The introduction should state the purpose for the reported study.
  • Review: The introduction should describe the importance of the problem addressed and succinctly review prior work in the area.
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  • The introduction should draw on the international literature whenever possible.
  • The Results should explain all study non-completers.
  • The Introduction should describe the purpose for the study.
  • The Methods section should describe the search criteria, selection process, extraction, and synthesis.
  • The Results section should identify the number of included studies, studies excluded, synthesis of findings, and any bias.
  • The Discussion section should pull all the data together in a coherent summary along with limitations.
  • This section should begin with a description of the study participants with respect to key demographic characteristics, such as their age and gender distributions and other relevant clinical characteristics.
  • This Journal encourages authors to report results, at a minimum, with standard errors of the mean, standard deviations, confidence intervals, exact p-values, and effect sizes.
  • The discussion should begin by restating the central objective(s) of the study and then outline the principal findings of the work, with special attention to whether or not they support the stated hypotheses.
  • 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.

Statistical reporting

  • The process for dealing with missing data should be detailed and described in terms of its statistical management.
  • The specific statistical software package and version used must be described.
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  • Include a description of the study recruitment methods, including participant inclusion and exclusion criteria, and a description of the source population of the study participants.
  • At a minimum, the statistical methodology should be carefully described along with the rationale for their use, and should include measures of effect size, statistical significance testing (i.e., p values), and measures of uncertainty such as confidence intervals, standard deviations, and standard errors.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 250 words
Keywords: 3-5 keywords
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Funding, Conflict of interest, Ethics

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