Peer Review Also Known as Refereeing Job Description
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Your Paper Your Style
Nosotros now differentiate betwixt the requirements for new and revised submissions. You may cull to submit your manuscript as a single Discussion or PDF file to be used in the refereeing process. Merely when your paper is at the revision stage, will you be requested to put your newspaper in to a 'right format' for acceptance and provide the items required for the publication of your article.
To detect out more, delight visit the Preparation department below.
Types of commodity
Full Length Papers
Full length research papers will not normally exist more than 4000 words in length (Introduction through Discussion) and will preferably be shorter. Submission of a paper to the Periodical of Psychosomatic Inquiry will be held to imply that it represents original research not previously published (except in the form of an abstract or preliminary report), that it is non existence considered for publication elsewhere, and that if accepted past the Periodical of Psychosomatic Enquiry it volition not be published elsewhere in the aforementioned form in any language without the consent of the Publisher. Major papers of topical content will be given priority in publication. Please note that this journal does not publish beast studies.
Brusque Reports
The journal welcomes brusk reports, which may be either preliminary communications or brief accounts of original research. Short Reports must non exceed 1500 words and should include no more than than and 30 references. Short Reports should as well include no more than than 2 tables or 2 figures, or alternatively 1 table and i figure. The journal does not publish case reports.
Editorials
The Editor welcomes suggestions for editorials which give personal and topical views on subjects within the periodical's surface area of involvement. They should not unremarkably exceed 1500 words, excluding references and should have no more than than 20 references.
Review Manufactures
Review papers are usually systematic reviews following the PRISMA statement of 4000-5000 words (Introduction through Discussion). Authors are advised to consult the Editor with an outline before submitting a review.
Letters to the Editor
These unremarkably refer to articles recently published in the periodical. The Editor is too willing to consider letters on subjects of straight relevance to the periodical's involvement, including research letters. Letters should not exceed 1000 words, including references. Where appropriate, they should begin with a reference to the published article that is the bailiwick of the letter. Research messages should exist submitted equally 'Messages to the Editor' and can additionally include ane effigy or table. Letters should non include an abstract.
Special Articles
These may be invited by an editor or submitted after discussion with the editor. Special articles are designed to provide an analysis of a topic of particular interest to readers of the journal and are more extensive in scope than an editorial. They should not primarily be a commentary on an article previously published in the journal, which would exist amend addressed in a letter or editorial.
Other Papers
The Editor welcomes suggestions for other types of papers, such as conference reports, accounts of major research in progress and interviews with senior research workers. These should not be submitted without prior consultation with the editor.
Contributions for the European Association for Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM) pages
These should mostly non exceed 1000 words, excluding references. Contributions for the EAPM pages must non take an abstract. Topics covered in these pages should be of interest to EAPM members and may be focused on innovations and developments in clinical services in specific European countries, updates on important developments in specific European countries, contributions related to the EAPM, papers focusing on historic topics, etc. Results of scientific research should not be submitted to the EAPM pages, since these require peer-review. Contributions for the EAPM pages are not peer-reviewed simply discipline to editorial approving. EAPM In case of doubt about the suitability of a subject field, please contact the Editor or the EAPM section editor.
Contact details for submission
Periodical of Psychosomatic Research
Editorial Role
Email:JPsychosomRes@healthcare.uiowa.edu
Submission checklist
You lot tin can use this list to acquit out a concluding cheque of your submission before yous send it to the periodical for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.
Ensure that the following items are present:
Ane author has been designated as the corresponding writer with contact details:
• Email address
• Total postal address
All necessary files accept been uploaded:
Manuscript:
• Include keywords
• All figures (include relevant captions)
• All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
• Ensure all figure and tabular array citations in the text match the files provided
• Indicate clearly if colour should exist used for whatsoever figures in print
Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicable)
Supplemental files (where applicable)
Farther considerations
• Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammer checked'
• All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted fabric from other sources (including the Cyberspace)
• A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
• Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed
• Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements
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Human being rights
If the piece of work involves the utilise of human subjects, the writer should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Annunciation of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans; Uniform Requirements for manuscripts submitted to Biomedical journals. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must e'er be observed.
Declaration of interest
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their piece of work. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disembalm whatsoever interests in 2 places: 1. A summary declaration of interest statement in the title page file (if double anonymized) or the manuscript file (if unmarried anonymized). If there are no interests to declare then please land this: 'Declarations of interest: none'. two. Detailed disclosures as role of a carve up Declaration of Interest form, which forms part of the journal'due south official records. It is of import for potential interests to be declared in both places and that the information matches. More information.
Submission declaration and verification
Submission of an commodity implies that the work described has non been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more than information), that information technology is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is canonical by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible regime where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other linguistic communication, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service Crossref Similarity Check.
Preprints
Please note that preprints can be shared anywhere at whatever time, in line with Elsevier'south sharing policy. Sharing your preprints e.g. on a preprint server will not count as prior publication (meet 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more than information).
Use of inclusive linguistic communication
Inclusive language acknowledges diverseness, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities. Articles should make no assumptions almost the beliefs or commitments of whatsoever reader, should contain zilch which might imply that one private is superior to another on the grounds of race, sex, culture or any other characteristic, and should use inclusive language throughout. Authors should ensure that writing is free from bias, for instance by using 'he or she', 'his/her' instead of 'he' or 'his', and by making utilize of job titles that are complimentary of stereotyping (e.yard. 'chairperson' instead of 'chairman' and 'flight bellboy' instead of 'stewardess'). Person-starting time linguistic communication, which puts the person before the diagnosis, is preferred.
Changes to authorship
Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive listing of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made just before the manuscript has been accepted and merely if canonical past the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of improver or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author beingness added or removed.
Only in exceptional circumstances volition the Editor consider the addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. While the Editor considers the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended. If the manuscript has already been published in an online issue, whatever requests approved past the Editor will result in a corrigendum.
Reporting clinical trials
All reports on clinical trials submitted for publication should include a completed Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) menstruum chart. Please refer to the Espoused statement website at http://world wide web.consort-argument.org for more than information. This journal has adopted guidelines on clinical trial registration of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) which crave, every bit a condition of consideration for publication of clinical trials, registration in a public trials registry. Trials must register at or before the onset of patient enrolment. The clinical trial registration number should exist included at the end of the abstract of the article. For this purpose, a clinical trial is defined as whatsoever research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more wellness-related interventions to evaluate the effects of health outcomes. Health-related interventions include whatsoever intervention used to change a biomedical or health-related outcome (for case drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural treatments, dietary interventions, and process-of-care changes). Health outcomes include whatever biomedical or wellness-related measures obtained in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic measures and adverse events. Further information can be establish at http://www.icmje.org.
Reporting on other types of research studies
It is also recommended that authors submitting other types of articles (non-trials) follow the advisable reporting guidelines for the type of study being reported (http://www.equator-network.org/resource-centre/library-of-health-research-reporting/reporting-guidelines/).
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized trials and other evaluation studies: PRISMA
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies: MOOSE
- Studies of diagnostic accuracy: STARD
- Observational studies: STROBE
Copyright
Upon credence of an article, authors will exist asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Understanding' (see more information on this). An email will be sent to the respective author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or set lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for utilize past authors in these cases.
For golden open access articles: Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'License Understanding' (more information). Permitted third political party reuse of gilt open access articles is adamant by the writer'southward selection of user license.
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Role of the funding source
You are requested to identify who provided fiscal support for the deport of the research and/or training of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if whatever, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the commodity for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement, it is recommended to state this.
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Language (usage and editing services)
Please write your text in skilful English (American or British usage is accustomed, but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their English language manuscript may crave editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use the English language Language Editing service bachelor from Elsevier's Author Services.
Submissions
The Journal of Psychosomatic Research utilizes a web-based submission and peer review system. Authors should submit their manuscripts, with figures and tables, electronically at the periodical Web site: https://world wide web.editorialmanager.com/JPSYCHORES. Complete instructions are bachelor on the Web site.
The journal reviews all material that information technology receives. Approximately 60% of manuscripts are rejected after pre-review by an editor, frequently afterwards consultation with some other fellow member of the editorial staff or an external peer reviewer. This is done and then as to allow authors whose manuscripts would almost certainly be rejected afterward peer review to submit the work elsewhere with every bit little delay as possible. Mutual reasons for rejection at this stage are bereft originality, low priority of interest to the journal and clear quality deficits. We endeavor to reach an initial decision on all articles that go through full peer review within 90 days of submission. Approximately 25% of submitted manuscripts are ultimately accepted for publication.
Manuscripts should conform to the compatible requirements known as the 'Vancouver style' (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. N Engl J Med 1997; 336:309-315). The Editors and Referees attach considerable importance to a succinct and lucid prose style and well organized tables. Authors whose native linguistic communication is not English are brash to seek assist before submission. Statistical procedures should be clearly explained. Manuscripts should adapt to the uniform requirements known as the 'Vancouver fashion' (International Committee of Medical Periodical Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. Northward Engl J Med 1997; 336:309-315). The Editors and Referees attach considerable importance to a succinct and lucid prose mode and well-organized tables. Authors whose native language is not English are advised to seek help earlier submission.
Statistical procedures should exist conspicuously explained. The statistical analysis should be consistent with the reporting of results. Statistical reporting should be not limited to p-value, but likewise include some measure of the magnitude of the clan. Statistical reporting and p-values should exist consistent throughout in formatting, such every bit the number of decimal places. The actual value of the p-value should be expressed rather than a statement of inequality, unless p<.001 or >.99. P-values should be reported two decimal places unless p<.01 or necessary to demonstrate on which side of the threshold of significance it falls.
NEW SUBMISSIONS
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and yous volition be guided stepwise through the cosmos and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts your files to a single PDF file, which is used in the peer-review procedure.
Every bit role of the Your Paper Your Way service, you may choose to submit your manuscript as a single file to be used in the refereeing process. This tin can be a PDF file or a Give-and-take document, in any format or lay-out that can be used by referees to evaluate your manuscript. It should comprise loftier enough quality figures for refereeing. If you prefer to do so, yous may withal provide all or some of the source files at the initial submission. Please note that individual figure files larger than 10 MB must be uploaded separately.
References
There are no strict requirements on reference formatting with new submissions. References tin can be in whatever mode or format every bit long equally the style is consistent. Where applicable, author(south) proper name(south), periodical championship/book title, chapter championship/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the article number or pagination must exist nowadays. Employ of DOI is highly encouraged. Revisions should exist submitted in the Journal of Psychosomatic Inquiry format as the reference style used by the journal will exist practical to the accepted article by Elsevier at the proof phase. Note that missing data will be highlighted at proof phase for the author to correct.
Formatting requirements
There are no strict formatting requirements but all manuscripts must comprise the essential elements needed to convey your manuscript, for example Abstruse, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Conclusions, Artwork and Tables with Captions.
If your article includes any Videos and/or other Supplementary material, this should be included in your initial submission for peer review purposes.
Split up the article into clearly defined sections.
Figures and tables embedded in text
Figures and the tables included in the unmarried file can be placed next to the relevant text in the manuscript or at the bottom of the file. The respective caption should be placed directly below the figure or table.
Peer review
This journal operates a single anonymized review process. All contributions volition exist initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two contained expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the concluding conclusion regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final. Editors are non involved in decisions about papers which they accept written themselves or accept been written by family members or colleagues or which relate to products or services in which the editor has an interest. Any such submission is subject field to all of the periodical's usual procedures, with peer review handled independently of the relevant editor and their research groups. More information on types of peer review.
REVISED SUBMISSIONS
Use of give-and-take processing software
Regardless of the file format of the original submission, at revision you lot must provide united states of america with an editable file of the unabridged article. Proceed the layout of the text as simple equally possible. Near formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the commodity. The electronic text should be prepared in a mode very like to that of conventional manuscripts (encounter also the Guide to Publishing with Elsevier). See as well the department on Electronic artwork.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly brash to employ the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-cheque' functions of your word processor.
Cover letter
Each manuscript should be accompanied by a Cover Letter. In addition to a brief description of the article being submitted and its relevance to likely readers of the journal, the Cover Letter of the alphabet should include a statement that (1)authors of this article had access to all study data, are responsible for all contents of the commodity, and had authority over manuscript preparation and the decision to submit the manuscript for publication, (two) all listed authors have approved of the submission of the manuscript to the periodical, and (iii) an caption of the relationship of the submitted paper to whatever other published, submitted or proposed papers reporting the same or overlapping data. If you are submitting a new version of a previously submitted manuscript, delight reference the prior submission number and whatsoever relevant communications from the Editors. You may submit the completed letter online.
Title Page
This should contain (a) the championship of the article; (b) a short running caput; (c) proper name of section where the work was conducted; (d) names of each author with highest academic degree; (e) name, address, phone and fax of author responsible for correspondence and to whom requests for reprints should be addressed.
Structured Abstract
This should be subdivided nether the headings Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusion and should not exceed 250 words. Be sure that key data, such as study design and sample size are included. For primary results, include some measure of the magnitude of the association and non just a p-value.
Keywords
Up to six keywords should exist listed in alphabetical order after the abstract. These terms should optimally characterize the paper to facilitate choice of peer reviewers.
Article Structure
The text should exist divided into sections with main headings: Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion and, in full, these sections should not ordinarily be greater than 4000 words in length.
Acknowledgements
Collate acknowledgements in a separate department at the end of the article before the references and exercise not, therefore, include them on the title folio, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. Acknowledgements must include mention of any source of funding exterior the basic funding of the host institution (see Function of the funding source to a higher place). Listing hither those individuals who provided assistance during the research (e.yard., providing linguistic communication help, writing aid or proof reading the article, etc.).
Tables
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables beneath the tabular array body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Any abbreviations used should be included in the footnotes with enough information for the reader to understand without referring back to the text. Avoid vertical rules. Exist sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the information presented in tables do not indistinguishable results described elsewhere in the commodity.
Figures
Each should exist on a dissever sheet, and numbered consecutively. Captions should be on a separate sail. Any abbreviations used should be included in the captions with plenty of a clarification for the figures to be interpreted independently from the text. The number of illustrations should be kept to a minimum. Color illustrations are not normally acceptable. Authors may be asked to support the costs of color reproduction.
Competing Interest Statement
All manuscripts should include a competing interests proclamation that should be in the following format:
'All authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare that(ane)[authors] received support from [name of company or other competing interest] for the submitted piece of work;(2)[authors] accept [specify relationships] with [name of companies or other competing interests] in the past three years that could exist perceived to constitute a conflict of interest;(3)spouses, partners, or children of [authors] have [specified] fiscal relationships that may exist relevant to the submitted work; and(4)[authors] take [specify type of human relationship] non-financial interests that may be relevant to the submitted work. 'If at that place are no competing interests to study, the authors should land, 'The authors take no competing interests to written report'.
Appendices
If at that place is more than i appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should exist given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.ii), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly, for tables and figures: Table A.i; Fig. A.1, etc. Tables or figures that are central to the study hypotheses should not be relegated to an appendix.
Highlights
Highlights are mandatory for this periodical equally they help increase the discoverability of your article via search engines. They consist of a short drove of bullet points that capture the novel results of your enquiry likewise every bit new methods that were used during the study (if any). Please have a look at the examples here: case Highlights.
Highlights should be submitted in a dissever editable file in the online submission system. Please utilize 'Highlights' in the file name and include three to 5 bullet points (maximum 85 characters, including spaces, per bullet point).
Graphical abstruse
Although a graphical abstract is optional, its use is encouraged equally it draws more attending to the online article. The graphical abstract should summarize the contents of the article in a curtailed, pictorial form designed to capture the attending of a wide readership. Graphical abstracts should be submitted every bit a separate file in the online submission system. Image size: Please provide an prototype with a minimum of 531 × 1328 pixels (h × westward) or proportionally more. The image should be readable at a size of 5 × 13 cm using a regular screen resolution of 96 dpi. Preferred file types: TIFF, EPS, PDF or MS Function files. You can view Instance Graphical Abstracts on our data site.
Authors can make utilise of Elsevier'southward Illustration Services to ensure the best presentation of their images and in accord with all technical requirements.
Abbreviations
Keep abbreviations to a minimum and avoid their apply in the abstract. Spell out each abbreviation in the text the first time that it is used. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.
Formatting of funding sources
List funding sources in this standard style to facilitate compliance to funder'south requirements:
Funding: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Neb & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA [grant number zzzz]; and the United States Institutes of Peace [grant number aaaa].
It is non necessary to include detailed descriptions on the program or type of grants and awards. When funding is from a block grant or other resources available to a university, higher, or other inquiry institution, submit the name of the plant or organisation that provided the funding.
If no funding has been provided for the inquiry, information technology is recommended to include the following judgement:
This research did non receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Footnotes
Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article. Many word processors build footnotes into the text, and this characteristic may be used. Should this not be the instance, indicate the position of footnotes in the text and nowadays the footnotes themselves separately at the end of the commodity.
Electronic artwork
General points
• Make sure yous use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Preferred fonts: Arial (or Helvetica), Times New Roman (or Times), Symbol, Courier.
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Indicate per effigy if it is a single, ane.5 or ii-column fitting image.
• For Give-and-take submissions simply, yous may still provide figures and their captions, and tables within a unmarried file at the revision stage.
• Please notation that private figure files larger than 10 MB must be provided in separate source files.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available.
You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless of the awarding used, when your electronic artwork is finalized, please 'save as' or catechumen the images to i of the following formats (annotation the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given beneath):
EPS (or PDF): Vector drawings. Embed the font or save the text equally 'graphics'.
TIFF (or JPG): Color or grayscale photographs (halftones): ever use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF (or JPG): Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of thou dpi.
TIFF (or JPG): Combinations bitmapped line/one-half-tone (color or grayscale): a minimum of 500 dpi is required.
Please do non:
• Supply files that are optimized for screen use (due east.g., GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is besides low.
• Supply files that are too low in resolution.
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Color artwork
Please make sure that artwork files are in an adequate format (TIFF (or JPEG), EPS (or PDF) or MS Office files) and with the correct resolution. If, together with your accepted article, yous submit usable color figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color online (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) in addition to color reproduction in impress. Further data on the preparation of electronic artwork.
Illustration services
Elsevier'due south Writer Services offers Illustration Services to authors preparing to submit a manuscript but concerned about the quality of the images accompanying their article. Elsevier'southward expert illustrators can produce scientific, technical and medical-style images, likewise as a full range of charts, tables and graphs. Image 'polishing' is as well bachelor, where our illustrators take your prototype(s) and improve them to a professional standard. Please visit the website to discover out more.
Effigy captions
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. A caption should comprise a brief title (non on the figure itself) and a description of the analogy. Continue text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum merely explicate all symbols and abbreviations used.
References
These should exist numbered consecutively in the text in the order in which they are first mentioned and be so denoted in the list. Their form should be that adopted past the US National Library of Medicine, every bit used in the Index Medicus and as recommended in Huth EJ, Medical Mode and Format.
Reference links
Increased discoverability of inquiry and loftier quality peer review are ensured by online links to the sources cited. In order to let united states of america to create links to abstracting and indexing services, such as Scopus, CrossRef and PubMed, please ensure that data provided in the references are right. Delight note that incorrect surnames, journal/book titles, publication year and pagination may preclude link creation. When copying references, please exist conscientious as they may already contain errors. Utilize of the DOI is highly encouraged.
A DOI is guaranteed never to modify, and so you can employ it every bit a permanent link to any electronic commodity. An example of a commendation using DOI for an commodity not nevertheless in an issue is: VanDecar J.C., Russo R.M., James D.E., Ambeh Westward.B., Franke Thou. (2003). Aseismic continuation of the Lesser Antilles slab beneath northeastern Venezuela. Journal of Geophysical Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JB000884. Please notation the format of such citations should be in the same style as all other references in the newspaper.
Spider web references
As a minimum, the full URL should exist given and the date when the reference was concluding accessed. Whatever further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should likewise exist given. Web references tin can be listed separately (due east.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can exist included in the reference list.
Information references
This periodical encourages y'all to cite underlying or relevant datasets in your manuscript past citing them in your text and including a data reference in your Reference List. Information references should include the following elements: author name(south), dataset championship, data repository, version (where available), year, and global persistent identifier. Add [dataset] immediately earlier the reference and so we tin can properly identify it as a information reference. The [dataset] identifier will non appear in your published article.
Reference direction software
Most Elsevier journals take their reference template available in many of the near popular reference direction software products. These include all products that support Citation Way Language styles, such as Mendeley. Using commendation plug-ins from these products, authors only need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article, after which citations and bibliographies volition be automatically formatted in the journal's style. If no template is yet bachelor for this journal, please follow the format of the sample references and citations as shown in this Guide. If you use reference direction software, delight ensure that you remove all field codes before submitting the electronic manuscript. More information on how to remove field codes from different reference management software.
Reference formatting
There are no strict requirements on reference formatting at submission. References can be in whatsoever style or format every bit long as the mode is consistent. Where applicable, author(s) proper noun(southward), periodical title/volume title, chapter championship/article title, year of publication, volume number/volume chapter and the article number or pagination must be nowadays. Use of DOI is highly encouraged. The reference style used past the journal volition be practical to the accustomed article by Elsevier at the proof stage. Note that missing data will exist highlighted at proof stage for the writer to correct. If you practise wish to format the references yourself they should exist arranged according to the post-obit examples:
Reference style
Text: Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authors tin can be referred to, simply the reference number(s) must always exist given.
Example: '..... as demonstrated [3,6]. Barnaby and Jones [eight] obtained a different issue ....'
List: Number the references (numbers in foursquare brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.
Examples:
Reference to a periodical publication:
[ane] J. van der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, The fine art of writing a scientific article, J. Sci. Commun. 163 (2010) 51–59. https://doi.org/x.1016/j.Sc.2010.00372.
Reference to a journal publication with an article number:
[2] J. van der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, 2018. The fine art of writing a scientific commodity. Heliyon. nineteen, e00205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00205.
Reference to a volume:
[3] W. Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Way, fourth ed., Longman, New York, 2000.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
[4] One thousand.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams, How to set an electronic version of your commodity, in: B.S. Jones, R.Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 2009, pp. 281–304.
Reference to a website:
[5] Cancer Research United kingdom, Cancer statistics reports for the UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/, 2003 (accessed 13 March 2003).
Reference to a dataset:
[dataset] [6] M. Oguro, South. Imahiro, Due south. Saito, T. Nakashizuka, Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt affliction and surrounding forest compositions, Mendeley Data, v1, 2015. https://doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.
Reference to software:
[7] Due east. Coon, M. Berndt, A. January, D. Svyatsky, A. Atchley, E. Kikinzon, D. Harp, K. Manzini, E. Shelef, M. Lipnikov, R. Garimella, C. Xu, D. Moulton, Due south. Karra, S. Painter, E. Jafarov, South. Molins, Advanced Terrestrial Simulator (ATS) v0.88 (Version 0.88), Zenodo, March 25, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3727209.
Journal abbreviations source
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Video
Elsevier accepts video textile and animation sequences to back up and raise your scientific enquiry. Authors who accept video or animation files that they wish to submit with their commodity are strongly encouraged to include links to these within the body of the article. This can exist done in the same way every bit a figure or table by referring to the video or animation content and noting in the body text where information technology should be placed. All submitted files should be properly labeled and then that they direct relate to the video file's content. In club to ensure that your video or animation fabric is directly usable, please provide the file in ane of our recommended file formats with a preferred maximum size of 150 MB per file, 1 GB in total. Video and blitheness files supplied will be published online in the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Spider web products, including ScienceDirect. Please supply 'stills' with your files: you lot can choose any frame from the video or blitheness or make a separate image. These will be used instead of standard icons and volition personalize the link to your video data. For more detailed instructions delight visit our video pedagogy pages. Note: since video and blitheness cannot be embedded in the print version of the journal, please provide text for both the electronic and the print version for the portions of the article that refer to this content.
Information visualization
Include interactive information visualizations in your publication and let your readers collaborate and engage more closely with your research. Follow the instructions here to find out near available data visualization options and how to include them with your article.
Supplementary material
Supplementary material such as applications, images and sound clips, tin can exist published with your commodity to raise information technology. Submitted supplementary items are published exactly every bit they are received (Excel or PowerPoint files will announced every bit such online). Delight submit your material together with the commodity and supply a concise, descriptive caption for each supplementary file. If yous wish to make changes to supplementary material during any stage of the process, please brand certain to provide an updated file. Exercise not annotate whatsoever corrections on a previous version. Delight switch off the 'Runway Changes' option in Microsoft Part files as these volition appear in the published version.
Inquiry data
This journal encourages and enables you to share data that supports your inquiry publication where appropriate, and enables you to interlink the information with your published articles. Enquiry data refers to the results of observations or experimentation that validate research findings. To facilitate reproducibility and data reuse, this journal also encourages you to share your software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods and other useful materials related to the project.
Below are a number of ways in which you tin associate data with your commodity or make a argument about the availability of your data when submitting your manuscript. If you are sharing data in i of these ways, you are encouraged to cite the data in your manuscript and reference list. Please refer to the "References" section for more information about data commendation. For more data on depositing, sharing and using research data and other relevant research materials, visit the research data folio.
Data linking
If you take made your research data available in a data repository, you can link your commodity direct to the dataset. Elsevier collaborates with a number of repositories to link articles on ScienceDirect with relevant repositories, giving readers access to underlying data that gives them a amend agreement of the inquiry described.
There are dissimilar ways to link your datasets to your article. When available, you can direct link your dataset to your article past providing the relevant information in the submission system. For more information, visit the database linking page.
For supported information repositories a repository banner will automatically appear next to your published article on ScienceDirect.
In add-on, y'all tin link to relevant data or entities through identifiers within the text of your manuscript, using the post-obit format: Database: xxxx (due east.g., TAIR: AT1G01020; CCDC: 734053; PDB: 1XFN).
Mendeley Information
This periodical supports Mendeley Data, enabling yous to eolith whatever research data (including raw and candy data, video, lawmaking, software, algorithms, protocols, and methods) associated with your manuscript in a free-to-apply, open access repository. During the submission process, subsequently uploading your manuscript, you volition take the opportunity to upload your relevant datasets direct to Mendeley Data. The datasets will be listed and direct accessible to readers next to your published commodity online.
For more information, visit the Mendeley Data for journals page.
Data argument
To foster transparency, we encourage you to state the availability of your data in your submission. This may be a requirement of your funding body or establishment. If your data is unavailable to access or unsuitable to mail service, you will have the opportunity to signal why during the submission process, for example by stating that the research data is confidential. The argument will announced with your published article on ScienceDirect. For more information, visit the Data Statement page.
Online proof correction
To ensure a fast publication process of the article, nosotros kindly enquire authors to provide us with their proof corrections within two days. Corresponding authors will receive an east-mail service with a link to our online proofing system, allowing note and correction of proofs online. The environment is similar to MS Word: in addition to editing text, yous can also comment on figures/tables and respond questions from the Re-create Editor. Web-based proofing provides a faster and less error-prone process by assuasive you to directly type your corrections, eliminating the potential introduction of errors.
If preferred, you lot can however choose to annotate and upload your edits on the PDF version. All instructions for proofing will exist given in the e-mail nosotros ship to authors, including culling methods to the online version and PDF.
We will exercise everything possible to go your commodity published speedily and accurately. Please use this proof merely for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and definiteness of the text, tables and figures. Meaning changes to the commodity as accustomed for publication will only be considered at this phase with permission from the Editor. Information technology is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to the states in 1 communication. Please check carefully earlier replying, as inclusion of whatsoever subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility.
Offprints
The corresponding author will, at no toll, receive a customized Share Link providing 50 days gratuitous access to the final published version of the article on ScienceDirect. The Share Link tin can be used for sharing the article via any communication channel, including email and social media. For an actress accuse, paper offprints can be ordered via the offprint order class which is sent in one case the commodity is accepted for publication. Both corresponding and co-authors may club offprints at any time via Elsevier's Writer Services. Corresponding authors who have published their commodity gold open access exercise not receive a Share Link equally their final published version of the article is bachelor open admission on ScienceDirect and can be shared through the commodity DOI link.
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Source: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-psychosomatic-research/0022-3999/guide-for-authors
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