All manuscripts are submitted and reviewed via the journal's web-based manuscript submission system. New authors should create an account prior to submitting a manuscript for consideration. Questions about submitting to the journal should be sent to the editorial office at psyrad@psychoradiology.org.
| Manuscript Type | Definition |
|---|---|
1. Research Article | Word limit*: 3000~6000 Abstract: Structured and no more than 300 words Figures and/or tables: ≤6 Research articles provide new knowledge based on original research. Meta-analyses are also acceptable in this category. These articles require appropriate statistical analyses. For clinical trial, the trial registration information (registry name, trial ID, and URL) is highly recommended to be listed at the end of the abstract. |
2. Review | Word limit*: 5000~8000 Abstract: one-paragraph abstract and no more than 250 words Figures and/or tables: ≤8 Review articles should be focused, comprehensive, in-depth syntheses of the available scientific information on a topic of interest. Normally these are authored by senior experts in the field. Systematic reviews are also included. |
3. Brief report
| Word limit*: ~1500 Abstract: no abstract Figure and/or table: ≤3 Brief reports are concise, focused reports of original research articles. These should have no more than 7 authors and 30 references. Other persons who have contributed to the study may be indicated in an Acknowledgment. Brief reports should be divided into the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions. |
4. Perspective | Word limit*: ~2500 Abstract: no abstract Perspectives are short reviews with an emphasis on emerging new concepts, findings and theoretical frameworks. |
5. Research Highlight | Word Limit*: ~1,000 Abstract: no abstract Figure and/or table: ≤ 1 References: ≤5 Author: ≤3 Research Highlights introduce and comment on cutting-edge research or hot topics in well-known external journals, highlighting the significance of the research, pointing out its limitations, and providing future research directions, with the aim of stimulating academic discussions on specific research topics. |
6. Commentary | Word limit*: ~1000 Abstract: no abstract Commentaries are concise, scholarly responses to a paper already published in this journal. Beyond summarising key findings, the writer’s own insights on the original study’s limitations, further interpretations, or suggestions for improvement and future prospects should be offered. |
7. Methodology | Word limit*: ~2500 Abstract: one-paragraph abstract and no more than 250 words Methodology articles provide a brief description and results of a systematic, theoretical analysis of the methods/techniques applied to clinical or basic research in psychoradiology. These are typically exploratory feasibility studies. These articles require appropriate statistical analyses. |
8.Protocol | Word limit*: ~4000 Abstract: Structured and no more than 300 words. We encourage the submission of protocol manuscripts at an early stage of the study. Protocol articles should report planned or ongoing research that has not yet started the final data extraction stage of the review at the time of submission, and should provide a detailed account of the hypothesis, rationale, and methodology. |
9. Case Report | Word limit*: ~2500 Abstract: one-paragraph abstract and no more than 250 words Case Reports describe one to three cases or a single family of clinical interest or significance. Submissions should be particularly original, such as the “first” cases of a disease or condition. |
10. Editorial | Word limit*: 500~1000 Abstract: no abstract Editorials are the voice of Psychoradiology. These are usually written by Editors-in-Chief/editors. Usually, the purpose of these Editorials is to explain succinctly the importance of an original research report in the context of other work in the field. |
11. Book Review | Word limit*: ~1000 Abstract: no abstract Book reviews related to one or more books on a topic or viewpoint in psychoradiology are commissioned by invitation only. |
* the main body of the text excluding the abstract, title page, tables, figure legends and references.
Language editing, particularly if English is not your first language, can be used to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by the journal editors and reviewers. Please note that edited manuscripts will still need to undergo peer-review by the journal.
For further information, please visit the Language Services webpage.
This journal operates single-anonymised peer review, meaning that the Authors identity is known to the Editor and to the Reviewers, but that the Reviewers’ identities are known only to the Editor and are hidden from the Authors. For full details about the peer review process, see Fair editing and peer review.
All submissions to the journal are initially reviewed by one of the editors. At this stage, manuscripts may be rejected without peer review owing to lack of novelty, serious scientific flaws or work lying outside the scope of the journal. This pre-review step usually takes 3-7 days. After the pre-review step, the manuscript will be assigned to one of the Associate Editors to invite reviews, collect review comments and recommend decision to the EiCs. One of the EiCs will make final decision based on this. For special issue submissions, they follow the same peer review workflow, the guest editor is not involved in peer review work.
Suitable manuscripts are sent out for single blind peer review, by usually at least two independent reviewers. Based on the feedback from these reviewers and the Editors' judgment a decision is given on the manuscript. The average time from submission to first decision is six weeks.
If a paper is not acceptable in its present form, we will pass on suggestions for revisions to the author.
In the case of manuscripts in which one of the authors is an editor on the editorial board of the journal, that editor will be blinded from reviewing or making decisions on the manuscript, and this will be acknowledged in the conflict of interest statement of the published paper.
Authors should observe high standards with respect to publication ethics as set out by the Commission on Publication Ethics (COPE). Falsification or fabrication of data, plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the authors' own work without proper citation, and misappropriation of the work are all unacceptable practices. Any cases of ethical misconduct are treated very seriously and will be dealt with in accordance with the COPE guidelines.
Manuscripts may also be screened, including with services provided by third parties, to help detect integrity issues such as inappropriate image alteration and papermill activity.
Manuscripts submitted to Psychoradiology may be screened with iThenticate anti-plagiarism software in an attempt to detect and prevent plagiarism. Any manuscript may be screened, especially if there is reason to suppose part or all of the text has been previously published. Prior to final acceptance any manuscript that has not already been screened may be put through iThenticate.
More information about iThenticate.
Natural language processing tools driven by artificial intelligence (AI) do not qualify as authors, and the Journal will screen for them in author lists. The use of AI (for example, to help generate content or images, write code, process data, or for translation) should be disclosed both in cover letters to editors and in the Methods or Acknowledgements section of manuscripts. Please see the COPE position statement on Authorship and AI for more details.
Papers reporting experiments on patients or healthy volunteers must record the fact that the subjects' consent was obtained according to the Declaration of Helsinki and that it has been approved by the ethical committee of the institution in which the work was performed. Consent must be also recorded when photographs of patients are shown or other details are given that could lead to identification of these individuals.
Articles reporting the results of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) should follow the guidelines of the CONSORT statement. Authors should complete both the CONSORT flow diagram and checklist and these should be included as supplementary material during the submission process. The complete CONSORT guidelines can be found at Welcome to the CONSORT Website. For clinical trial, please provide the trail registration information (registry name, trial ID, and URL) must be listed at the end of the abstract.
The ARRIVE guidelines must be followed when preparing manuscripts for Psychoradiology. Experiments with animals should be performed in accordance with the legal requirements of the relevant local or national authority and the name of the authorizing body should be stated in the paper. Procedures should be such that experimental animals do not suffer unnecessarily. The text of the paper should include experimental details of the procedure and of anaesthetics used. The journal reserves the right to reject papers where the ethical aspects are, in the Editor's opinion, open to doubt.
In order to reproduce any third party material, including tables, figures, or images, in an article authors must obtain permission from the copyright holder and be compliant with any requirements the copyright holder may have pertaining to this reuse. When seeking to reproduce any kind of third party material authors should request the following:
non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the specified article and journal;
print and electronic rights, preferably for use in any form or medium;
the right to use the material for the life of the work; and
world-wide English-language rights.
It is particularly important to clear permission for use in both the print and online versions of the journal, and we are not able to accept permissions which carry a time limit because we retain journal articles as part of our online journal archive.
If your paper contains material for which you do not have Open Access reuse permissions, please state this clearly by supplying the following credit line alongside the material:
Title of content. Author, Original publication, year of original publication, by permission of [rights holder].
This image/content is not covered by the terms of the Creative Commons licence of this publication. For permission to reuse, please contact the rights holder.
Oxford University Press requires declaration of any conflict of interest upon submission online. If the manuscript is published, conflict of interest information will be communicated in a statement in the published paper.
You can find a detailed definition of conflicts of interests on the publication ethics page. As an example, if you are an employee of a company which discusses that company’s product in their article, a COI disclosure should be included.
Members of the editorial staff of the journal should include the following COI disclosure in their article: '[Author initial] holds the position of [Editor-in-Chief/Deputy Editor-in-Chief/Assistant Editor/Editorial Board Member] for Psychoradiology and is blinded from reviewing or making decisions for the manuscript'.
Psychoradiology encourages transparency by clarifying every author’s effort, including conception, design, experimental conduction, data acquisition, analysis, interpretation, creation of new software, drafting, revising and so on. For reference, CRediT taxonomy provides 14 contribution roles. Please indicate the contribution of each author at the end of your manuscript.
The journal's self-archiving policy.
Psychoradiology is a fully open access journal, and all articles are published in the journal under an open access licence immediately upon publication.
Details of the open access licences and open access charges.
CC BY licence - $0
CC BY-NC licence - $0
We are pleased to announce that open access fees are currently waived for authors in Psychoradiology.
On the first page please include the title of paper, author names and affiliations, and the address (including email) of the corresponding author. If there are multiple corresponding authors then nominate one for communication with the editorial office.
Where an Abstract is required we suggest a maximum length of 300 words. Avoid reference citations and abbreviations in the Abstract. For Reviews please use a One-paragraph Abstract; for others we suggest a Structured Abstract.
Tables and figures should be accompanied by a legend. Please use a common image format for figures (e.g. pdf, eps, gif, tif, jpg). The initial submission can have figures and text in one file, rather than separate files if desired. Further information on figures.
Videos when appropriate are acceptable as part of the article or as supplementary material. A still image of the video will appear in the print version. Instructions on how to submit correct files (acceptable formats and codecs).
At the end of the text, please list the Supplementary materials, Author contributions, Conflict of interests, and Acknowledgements, in this order, before References.
Please list all author contributions upon submission of the manuscript.
Details of funding sources should be included in Acknowledgements. Please refer to your funding organizations to acknowledge their support. PubMed Central links will require a specific grant number to be referenced.
References should be cited by author name and year in the text and alphabetically in the reference list. Include a minimum of three authors followed by et al. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their references. Examples of the referencing format for journal articles, books can be found below.
Article in a Periodical:
Li J, Chen H, Fan F, et al. (2020) White-matter functional topology: a neuromarker for classification and prediction in unmedicated depression. Transl Psychiatry 10:365.
Article in a Book:
Pyle, A.M., and Lambowitz, A.M. (2006). Group II introns: ribozymes that splice RNA and invade DNA. In: Gesteland, R.F., Cech, T.R., and Atkins, J.F. (eds). The RNA World, 3rd edn. New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 469-506.
An Entire Book:
Gesteland, R.F., Cech, T.R., and Atkins, J.F. (2006). The RNA World, 3rd edn. New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Please also define non-standard abbreviations at the first occurrence and number figures and tables consecutively.
Upon revision papers should be submitted in an editable file format (i.e. not PDF) and figures should be submitted as separate, high-resolution, files.
For information on how to submit figure files, please see the relevant sections of the manuscript preparation guide.
Psychoradiology uses graphical abstract and teaser text to promote articles via email content, social media, newsletters and online search results. Authors are encouraged to submit a graphical abstract as part of the article, in addition to the text abstract.
Incorporating alt text (alternative text) when submitting your paper helps to foster inclusivity and accessibility. Good alt text ensures that individuals with visual impairments or those using screen readers can comprehend the content and context of your figures. The aim of alt text is to provide concise and informative descriptions of your figure so that all readers have access to the same level of information and understanding, and that all can engage with and benefit from the visual elements integral to scholarly content. Including alt text demonstrates a commitment to accessibility and enhances the overall impact and reach of your work.
Alt text is applicable to all images, figures, illustrations, and photographs.
Alt text is only accessible via e-reader and so it won’t appear as part of the typeset article.
Detailed guidance on how to draft and submit alt text.
A graphical abstract is a single image that summarises the focus and main findings of the article. It could be the key ‘results’ image from the paper itself, or a specially designed figure that captures the key takeaway message of the paper and enables the viewer to understand what the paper is about. It does not have to replicate all the information in the text abstract or be a comprehensive account of the paper.
Abstracts can also take video or audio form, provided that they also convey the key message or finding of the paper. On the article page, abstract content will be displayed in the following sequence in line: text, graphical, video, audio.
As part of the article, the graphical abstract will be displayed on both article page and PDF. Examples of how this is displayed on the article page.
Teaser text is a non-technical summary stating the novelty of the article, and it is displayed on the Table of Contents page (TOC) and search results under the article title. See the example for more information.
The language in the teaser text used should be understood by a non-specialist. Please ensure you use the third person, not first person (i.e. do not use 'I' or 'we').
Teaser text is an online only element and will not be included in the article content.
On the TOC, a thumbnail image of the graphical abstract will display under the article title, next to the teaser text. See the example for more information. If no teaser text is supplied, the TOC will display an excerpt of the article.
Authors are encouraged to provide the graphical abstract as a separate file when submitting to the journal. Teaser text should be provided to the editor after acceptance.
For articles without a graphical abstract and teaser text, the editors may contact the authors for this content after acceptance.
The graphical abstract file should be clearly named, e.g. graphical_abstract.tiff. See the example for more information and guidance on appropriate file format and resolution for graphics. Please ensure graphical abstracts are in landscape format.
Please check that your graphical abstracts are clear and eye-catching. This will help to attract readers to your publication.
Submit all material to be considered as Supplementary Material online at the same time as the main manuscript. Ensure that the supplementary material is referred to in the main manuscript at an appropriate point in the text. Supplementary material will be available online only and will not be copyedited or typeset, so ensure that it is clearly and succinctly presented and that the style conforms with the rest of the paper. Also ensure that the presentation will work on any Internet browser. It is not recommended for the files to be more than 2 MB each, although exceptions can be made at the editorial office's discretion.
Where ethically feasible, Psychoradiology strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. We suggest that data be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files, or deposited in a public repository whenever possible. For information on general repositories for all data types, and a list of recommended repositories by subject area, please see Choosing where to archive your data.
Psychoradiology supports the Force 11 Data Citation Principles and the recommendations of the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Group. When data and software underlying the research article are available in an online source, authors should include a full citation in their reference list.
For details of the minimum information to be included in data and software citations see the guidance on Citing research data and software.
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels, and this does not prevent submission to the journal. For further information see our Online Licensing, Copyright and Permissions policies. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI, as described on our Author Self-Archiving policy page.
The author can add an alternative name in simplified Chinese together with the English name to appear in both PDF and HTML version of the article.
The alternative name will not display in search results or indexing services such as PubMed and Web of Science.
This is an optional functionality. At submission the author could include the simplified Chinese name in parentheses after their primary English name on the manuscript, for example:
Wei Zhang (张伟) and Fang Wang (王芳)
Authors will receive a link to access the PDF proof and an editable HTML version of their manuscript on our online system by email, and it is essential that a current email address is supplied with all manuscripts. Proofing instructions will accompany the email; the proof should be checked immediately upon receipt and corrected in accordance with covering instructions. Only essential corrections should be made at the proof stage.
For Psychoradiology manuscripts arrive at OUP and go through the production process until the final versions are ready to publish. These are then published on our Advance Access page. They will remain on the page up until the issue that they are assigned to is published.