Addiction Biology

Published on behalf of the Society for the Study of Addiction

Edited by:
Rainer Spanagel Editor for North America: Markus Heilig

Print ISSN: 1355-6215
Online ISSN: 1369-1600
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 15 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 53/276 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; 1/11 Substance Abuse
Impact Factor: 4.953

TopAuthor Guidelines

Relevant Documents: Exclusive Licence Form

Useful Websites: Articles published in Addiction Biology, Author Services, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing's Ethical Guidelines, Guidelines for Figures

GENERAL

The focus of Addiction Biology is on neuroscience contributions, which aim at advancing our understanding regarding aspects on the action of drugs of abuse and addictive processes. Papers are accepted whose content is geared towards behavioral, molecular, genetic, biochemical, neuro-biological and pharmacological fields of animal experimentation and clinical research.

Please read the instructions below carefully for details on the submission of manuscripts, the journal's requirements and standards as well as information concerning the procedure after a manuscript has been accepted for publication in Addiction Biology. Authors are encouraged to visit Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Author Services for further information on the preparation and submission of articles and figures.

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.

ETHICAL GUIDELINES

Addiction Biology adheres to the below ethical guidelines for publication and research. Submission is a representation that neither the manuscript nor its data have been previously published (except in abstract) or is currently under review at another journal or 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.

Authorship and Acknowledgements

Authorship: Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the manuscript has been read and approved by all authors and that all authors agree to the submission of the manuscript to the Journal. ALL named authors must have made an active contribution to the conception and design and/or analysis and interpretation of the data and/or the drafting of the paper and ALL must have critically reviewed its content and have approved the final version submitted for publication. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding does not justify authorship.

A section on Authors contribution where each single contribution from each author is listed in detail is required and should be stated following the discussion. An example for Authors contribution is listed below:

Example for Authors contribution:

PA, JC, and ECN were responsible for the study concept and design. AA and PA contributed to the acquisition of animal data. JC performed the proteomics analysis. AA, PA, and JC assisted with data analysis and interpretation of findings. ECN drafted the manuscript. AA, PA, and JC provided critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content. All authors critically reviewed content and approved final version for publication.

It is a requirement that all authors have been accredited as appropriate upon submission of the manuscript. Contributors who do not qualify as authors should be mentioned under Acknowledgements.

Acknowledgements: Under Acknowledgements please specify contributors to the article other than the authors accredited. Please also include specifications of the source of funding for the study and any potential conflict of interests if appropriate including financial disclosures.

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. The correspondence author can sign the licence form on behalf of all other authors. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Addiction Biology has now adopted ScholarOne Manuscripts, for online manuscript submission and peer review. The new system brings with it a whole host of benefits including:

Quick and easy submission
Administration centralised and reduced
Significant decrease in peer review times

From this date all submissions to the journal must be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/adb. Full instructions and support are available on the site and a user ID and password can be obtained on the first visit. If you require assistance then click the Get Help Now link which appears at the top right of every ScholarOne Manuscripts page. If you cannot submit online, please contact Christine Roggenkamp in the Editorial Office by e-mail (addiction.biology@zi-mannheim.de).

MANUSCRIPT TYPES ACCEPTED

Original Articles and Reviews: There is no maximum length for articles or reviews. However, we encourage authors to submit supplementary information which will be published only electronically.

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.

Addiction Biology also publishes invited editorials and invited commentaries on articles.

Layout

Submissions should be double-spaced and clearly legible.

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 an abstract of not more than 250 words in one paragraph and keywords (no more than six, in alphabetical order).

The entire manuscript should be structured into Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods, Discussion, Acknowledgements, Authors contribution, References. The manuscript and all references, tables, figures, and any other material, should be numbered in one sequence from the title page onwards. Figures and tables should not be inserted in the text but each provided separately and numbered. Footnotes to the text should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Supplementary information should be provided as an extra file.

TABLES, FIGURES AND FIGURE LEGENDS

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: 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). 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.

Figure Legends: 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.

Further information can be obtained at Wiley-Blackwell Publishing's guidelines for figures: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp

Permissions: If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned. It is the author's responsibility to obtain these in writing and provide copies to the Publisher.

References

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. For references with 3 authors, all 3 authors are present at first mention, subsequent citations are first author followed by et al. If there are more than 3, use et al. throughout. 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.

Website address
Department of Health and Human Services (2005) National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings. Available at: http//webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/samhda-study/04596.xml. Accessed 10 January 2009.

The editor and publisher recommend that citation of online published papers and other material should be done via a DOI (digital object identifier), which all reputable online published material should have - see www.doi.org/ for more information. If an author cites anything which does not have a DOI they run the risk of the cited material not being traceable.

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

AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Upon acceptance of a paper for publication, the manuscript will be forwarded to the Production Editor who is responsible for the production of the journal.

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 Production Editor within 48 hours of receipt.

Early View
Addiction Biology is covered by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing's Early View service. Early View articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled print issue. Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors' final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so Early View articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.

Author Services
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.

Author Material Archive Policy
Please note that unless specifically requested, Wiley-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.

Offprints and Extra Copies

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. Please click on the following link, fill in the necessary details and ensure that you type information in all of the required fields: offprint.cosprinters.com/cos/bw/main.jsp?SITE_ID=bw&FID=USER_HOME_PG
If you have queries about offprints please e-mail offprint@cosprinters.com

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