Addiction Biology

Published on behalf of the Society for the Study of Addiction

Edited by:
Rainer Spanagel. Editor for North America: Markus Heili

Print ISSN: 1355-6215
Online ISSN: 1369-1600
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 14 / 2009
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 53/276 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; 1/11 Substance Abuse
Impact Factor: 4.953

TopAuthor Guidelines

The editorial staff would be most grateful for your assistance in relation to the matters listed below. Please follow these guidelines carefully when preparing a submission.

Manuscripts are examined by the editorial staff and are generally sent to the Reviewing Editors and to outside reviewers. We encourage authors to suggest the names of possible reviewers but reserve the right of final selection. Decisions about manuscripts will usually be given within four weeks.

We ask authors to submit their work electronically as a Microsoft Word document. The file should also include all the respective figures and tables as well. Please submit your work to addiction.biology@zi-mannheim.de or to addiction.biology@mail.nih.gov contributions from North America).

Layout

Submissions should be double-spaced and clearly legible. There is no maximum length for articles or reviews.

The first sheet should contain the title of the paper, full names of authors, the address where the work was carried out, and the full postal address including telephone, fax number and Email to whom correspondence and proofs should be sent.

The second sheet should contain only the title, names of authors, keywords (no more than six, in alphabetical order) and an abstract of not more than 250 words in one paragraph.

The entire manuscript should be structured into Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References. The manuscript, including all references, tables, figures, and any other material, should be numbered in one sequence from the title page onwards. Footnotes to the text should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.

Brief Report

A Brief Report is a concise study of broad interest. In this category negative findings will be included as well e.g. lack of association in genetic studies. This format may not exceed 2 printed pages. Brief Reports begin with a brief unreferenced abstract (no more than 100 words), which will appear on Medline. The main text is typically 1,000-1,200 words, including references and figure legends, and contains no headings. Brief Reports normally have no more than 2 display items. References are limited to 10. Supplementary information can be included which will be published only electronically.

Tables

These should be typed on separate sheets. Tables must not duplicate information contained elsewhere in the manuscript. Each table should include a brief descriptive title and be numbered in order of its mention in the text with arabic numerals. Only horizontal rules are permissible.

Figures / Images

These should not be inserted in the text but each provided separately and numbered. Illustrations should be prepared about twice their final size. All photographs, graphs and diagrams should be referred to as Figures and should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals (e.g. Fig. 3). A list of legends for the figures should be submitted on a separate sheet; this should make interpretation possible without reference to the text and should include keys to any symbols. Only high quality figures and images are accepted. The use of 'three-dimensional' histograms is strongly discouraged when the addition of the third dimension gives no extra information. Please do not prepare figures using Powerpoint software, as that is unsuitable for typesetting. Preferred formats are TIFF, EPS and PDF.

References

We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.

EndNote reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp

Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp

List references alphabetically by author, on a separate page(s), at the end of the article, and cite them in text parenthetically using authors' name and year of publication. List all authors of papers, books, and chapters in the references. List the author(s) in the citation in the text if there are one of two authors (i.e. Smith, 2003; Jones and Pauly, 2004); otherwise, list the first author followed by et al. (i.e. Hardy et al., 2005). Periodical abbreviations should follow those used by Index Medicus. References should be styled as follows:

Journal
Geschwind DH (2000) Mice, microarrays, and the genetic diversity of the brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97:10676-10678.

Gaasterland T and Bekiranov S (2000) Making the most of microarray data. Nature Genetics 24:204-206.

Cowan WM, Kopnisky KL, Hyman SE (2002) The human genome project and its impact on psychiatry. Annu Rev Neurosci 25:1-50.

Book
Cohen J (1988) Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. 2nd ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Feldman RS, Meyer JS, Quenzer LF (1997) Principles of Neuropsychopharmacology. Springer: Heidelberg.

Chapter in Edited Book
Mully AG (1990). Equity and Variability in Modern Health Care. In: The Challenges of Medical Practice Variations. Andersen TF, Mooney G (eds). Palgrave: New York. pp 145-286.

Faulkenaur E, Marchand A (2002) Clustering microarray data with evolutionary algorithms. In Evolutionary computation in bioinformatics. Corn D and Fogel G (eds) Taylor and Francis: London. pp. 123-156.

Ethical standards

Submission is a representation that neither the manuscript nor its data have been previously published (except in abstract) or is currently under consideration for publication.

All authors should have been personally and actively involved in substantive work leading to the report, and will hold themselves jointly and individually responsible for its content.

Procedures involving experiments on human subjects should be in accord with the ethical standards of the Committee on Human Experimentation of the institution in which the experiments were done and/or in accord with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975. In particular, authors must ensure that patient confidentiality is in no way breached, and that a statement of informed consent is made.

The experiments should have been carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and/or with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals as adopted and promulgated by the National Institutes of Health and the EU. An explicit statement must be provided in the Methods section of the manuscript.

Copyright

It is a condition of publication that authors grant the Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and Other Drugs the exclusive licence to publish all articles including abstracts. Papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless the exclusive licence to publish has been granted. To assist authors an exclusive licence form can be downloaded here or is available from the editorial office. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

NEW: Online production tracking is now available for your article through Author Services. Author Services enables authors to track their article - once it has been accepted - through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production. The author will receive an e-mail with a unique link that enables them to register and have their article automatically added to the system. Please ensure that a complete e-mail address is provided when submitting the manuscript. Visit http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/ for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more.

Page proofs
The corresponding author will receive an e-mail alert containing a link to a website. A working e-mail address must therefore be provided for the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following web site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Proofs are supplied for checking and making essential corrections, not for general revision or alteration. Proofs should be corrected and returned to the publisher within 48 hours of receipt.

Early View
Addiction Biology is covered by Wiley-Blackwell's Early View service.

PDF offprints

A PDF offprint of the online published article will be provided free of charge to the corresponding author, and may be distributed subject to the Publisher's terms and conditions. Paper offprints of the printed published article may be purchased if ordered via the method stipulated on the instructions that will accompany the proofs. Printed offprints are posted to the correspondence address given for the paper unless a different address is specified when ordered. Note that it is not uncommon for printed offprints to take up to eight weeks to arrive after publication of the journal. Additional paper offprints may be ordered online.

Author material archive policy.

Please note that unless specifically requested, Blackwell Publishing will dispose of all hardcopy or electronic material submitted two issues after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the editorial office or production editor as soon as possible if you have not yet done so.

Note to NIH Grantees
Pursuant to NIH mandate, Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted version of contributions authored by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance. This accepted version will be made publicly available 12 months after publication. For further information, see www.wiley.com/go/nihmandate