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• research reports - accounts of qualitative and quantitative enquiries, including implications for future practice and directions for future research.
• clinical forums - discussion and exchanges of views on key clinical issues.
• research notes - short reports on work of a preliminary nature.
• book reviews - concise and critical insights into newly published books.

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• Please write clearly and concisely, stating your objectives clearly and defining your terms. Your arguments should be substantiated with well reasoned supporting evidence.
• In writing your paper, you are encouraged to review articles in the area you are addressing which have been previously published in the journal, and where you feel appropriate, to reference them. This will enhance context, coherence, and continuity for our readers.
• For all manuscripts, gender-, race-, and creed-inclusive language is mandatory.
• Ethics of Experimentation: Contributors are required to follow the procedures in force in their countries which govern the ethics of work done with human subjects. The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) represents a minimal requirement.
• Abstracts are required for all papers submitted, they should be between 150 and 400 words and should precede the text of a paper; see 'Abstracts'.
• Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout, including the reference section.
• Authors should include telephone and fax numbers as well as e-mail addresses on the cover page of manuscripts.

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ABSTRACTS

Structured Abstracts:

Authors submitting papers should note that from Volume 16 Issue 1 (2002), the journal is introducing Structured Abstracts. There is good evidence that Structured Abstracts are clearer for readers and facilitate better appropriate indexing and citation of papers.

The essential features of the Structured Abstract are given below. Note in particular that any clinical implications should be clearly stated.

Abstract (Between 150-400 words)
Background: Describe the background to the study;
Aims: State the aims and objectives of the study including any clear research questions or hypotheses.
Methods & Procedures: To include outline of the methodology and design of experiments; materials employed and subject/participant numbers with basic relevant demographic information; the nature of the analyses performed.
Outcomes & Results: Outline the important and relevant results of the analyses.
Conclusions: State the basic conclusions and implications of the study. State, clearly and usefully, if there are implications for management, treatment or service delivery.

Review Abstract:

Background: Outline the background to the review.
Aims: State the primary objective of the paper; the reasons behind your critical review and analyses of the literature; your approach and methods if relevant.
Main Contribution: The main outcomes of the paper and results of analyses; and any implications for future research and for management, treatment or service delivery.
Conclusions: State your main conclusions.

FORMAT

Papers should be prepared in the format prescribed by the American Psychological Association. For full details of this format, please see the Publication Manual of the APA (5th edition).

Typescripts. The style and format of the typescripts should conform to the specifications given in the Publication Manual of the APA (6th edition). Typescripts should be double spaced on A4 paper, with adequate margins, and numbered throughout. The title page of an article should contain only:

(1) the title of the paper (as concise as possible), the name(s) of the authors and full postal address(es) of their institution(s);
(2) a short title not exceeding 40 letters and spaces, which will be used for page headlines;
(3) name and address of the author to whom correspondence and proofs should be sent;
(4) your telephone, fax and e-mail numbers, as this helps speed of processing considerably.

Abstract. As above.

Headings. Indicate headings and subheadings for different sections of the paper clearly. Do not number headings.

Acknowledgements. These should be as brief as possible and typed on a separate sheet at the beginning of the text.

Permission to quote. Any direct quotation, regardless of length, must be accompanied by a reference citation that includes a page number. Any quote over six manuscript lines should have formal written permission to quote from the copyright owner. It is the author's responsibility to determine whether permission is required from the copyright owner and, if so, to obtain it. (See "Seeking permission to use other sources" for a template letter to use when seeking copyright permission.)  

Footnotes. These should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Essential footnotes should be indicated by superscript figures in the text and collected on a separate sheet at the end of the manuscript.

"... results showed an effect of group, F(2, 21) = 13.74, MSE = 451.98, p < .001, but there was no effect of repeated trials, F(5, 105) = 1.44, MSE = 17.70, and no interaction, F(10, 105) = 1.34, MSE = 17.70."

Notes on Participant Description

Submissions involving research with aphasic participants should include, wherever necessary (and this will be the case for most submissions), adequate participant descriptions and assessment details. Brookshire (1983) provides a list of factors (below) reviewed and updated recently by Roberts et al. (2003) that referees can bear in mind when evaluating a submission.

Greater detail will be required for single case studies than for large group studies. For single case studies detailed and clear assessment details including raw scores on assessments are usually required.

Robey et al. (1999) recommend that for single case treatment studies, sufficient detail (e.g., raw scores, descriptive statistics) is required so that standard deviations can be calculated from data presented to allow meta-analysis of series of published single case treatment studies.

Authors and referees please note that Aphasiology requires that the word 'aphasic' is written as an adjective, not a noun. There are two reasons for this. The first is the grammatical one and the second is that it is perceived as offensive by some to describe an aphasic person as 'an aphasic'. The first reason is trivial but adds support to the second, which is important. So the word 'aphasic' should always be qualified by 'participants, speaker, subject, client, patient, person', whichever is appropriate for the field of study (e.g., 'patient' in the context of a medical study, 'speaker' for linguistic and phonetic studies).

Brookshire, R. (1983) Subject description and generality of results in experiments with aphasic adults. Journal of Speech & Hearing Disorders, 48, 342-346.

Roberts, P. M., Code, C., & McNeil, M. R. (2003) Describing participants in aphasia research: Part I. Audit of current practice. Aphasiology, 17, 911-932.

Robey, R. R., Schultz, M. C., Crawford, A. B., & Sinner, C. A. (1999) Single-subject clinical-outcome research: Designs, data, effect sizes, and analyses. Aphasiology, 13, 445-473.

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