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Publication Policies

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention follows publication policies and ethical principles of the American Psychological Association (APA). Authors are assumed to be familiar with and are responsible for adherence to the policies. Among the tenets, the policies prohibit an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by two or more publications or from publishing any manuscript that has already been published in whole or substantial part elsewhere. Authors are obligated to consult journal editors concerning prior publication of any material upon which their article depends.

The primary manuscript categories are regular articles (evidence-based research articles and practice articles), public policy perspectives, program evaluations, forensic reports, meta-analyses, case presentations, literature reviews on different treatment modalities with at-risk populations, and brief research reports, as well as research commentaries. We encourage the submission of articles using qualitative or quantitative methods. Compliance with APA ethical standards in the treatment and protection of the sample as elaborated in the APA Ethical Principles is expected by the journal.

Proofs and Offprints

To facilitate speedy publication of the journal, authors will be asked to proofread and return their page proofs within 48 hours of receipt. Authors should notify the publisher if they need to provide another address or determine the approximate date they will receive their proofs. An offprint order form with the current price schedule will be included with the page proofs. Authors may order offprints by returning the form when they return their proofs.

License

It is a condition of publication in the journal that authors grant an exclusive license to Oxford University Press. Requests for permission to reprint material found in the journal should come to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the license agreement, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication and Oxford University Press as the publisher. Authors will be instructed to sign the license agreement and mail it to the OUP production office at the address found on the top of the form.

Funding

Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.

The following rules should be followed:

• The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
• The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’
• Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
• Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
• Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.

An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].’

Permissions for Illustrations and Figures

Permission to reproduce copyright material, for print and online publication in perpetuity, must be cleared and if necessary paid for by the author; this includes applications and payments to DACS, ARS, and similar licensing agencies where appropriate. Evidence in writing that such permissions have been secured from the rights-holder must be made available to the editors. It is also the author's responsibility to include acknowledgements as stipulated by the particular institutions. Oxford Journals can offer information and documentation to assist authors in securing print and online permissions: please see the Guidelines for Authors section. Information on permissions contacts for a number of main galleries and museums can also be provided. Should you require copies of this, please contact the editorial office of the journal in question or the Oxford Journals Rights department.

Author Self-Archiving/Public Access Policy from May 2005

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving Policy page.

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