Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy incurs and their papers will not be published.

• Manuscripts should be consistent with the Aims and Scope of the journal.
• Papers are accepted only in English. American or British English spelling and punctuation is acceptable provided usage is consistent throughout.
• There is no word limit for articles.
• All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.
• Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; appendixes (as appropriate); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
• Abstracts of 200 words are required for all papers submitted.
• Each paper should have five keywords.
• Section headings should be concise.
• Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
• For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
• Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
• When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.

2. Style guidelines

• Description of the Journal's article style
• Description of the Journal's reference style, Quick guide
• Any consistent spelling style is acceptable. Use single quotation marks with double within if needed.
• We prefer US to 'American', USA to 'United States' and UK to 'United Kingdom'.
• Punctuation of common abbreviations should not be followed by a comma or a (double) point/period (e.g./i.e.).
• The em-dash should be clearly indicated in manuscripts by way of a clear dash (-) or a triple hyphen (---).
• Only the first word in paper titles and all subheads is in upper case; titles of papers from journals in the references and other places are not in upper case.
• Apostrophes should be used sparingly. Thus, decades should be referred to as follows: 'the 1980s saw...' (not the 1980's). Possessives associated with acronyms should be written as follows: UNICEF's findings that...'
• Spell out all acronyms for national and international agencies, examinations, etc. the first time they are introduced in the text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate, e.g. 'The work of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the 1980s...'. Subsequently, 'The WHO studies of health...', in a reference (World Health Organization (WHO) 1989a).
• The preferred local (national) usage for ethnic and other minorities should be used in all papers.
• Material to be emphasized (italicized in the printed version) should be underlined in typescript rather than italicized. Please use such emphasis sparingly.
• Quotes longer than 40 words should be separated from the main body of the text and indented from the text in a new paragraph.
• A Word template is available for this journal (please save the Word template to your hard drive and open it for use by clicking on the icon in Windows Explorer).

If you have any questions about references or formatting your article, please contact authorqueries@tandf.co.uk

3. Figures

Artwork submitted for publication will not be returned and will be destroyed after publication, unless you request otherwise. Whilst every care is taken of artwork, neither the Editor nor Taylor & Francis shall bear any responsibility or liability for non-return, loss, or damage of artwork, nor for any associated costs or compensation. You are strongly advised to insure appropriately. 

• It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
• Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
• Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
• All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. figure 1, figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. figure 1(a), figure 1(b)).
• Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
• The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.

3. Mathematics and statistics

Special care should be taken with mathematical and statistical scripts, especially subscripts and superscripts and differentiation between the letter 'ell' and the figure one, and the letter 'oh' and the figure zero. If your keyboard does not have the characters you need, it is preferable to use longhand, in which case it is important to differentiate between capital and small letters, K, k and x and other similar groups of letters. Special symbols should be marked in the text and highlighted in the margin. In some cases it is helpful to supply annotated lists of symbols for the guidance of the sub-editor and the typesetter.

• For simple fractions in the text, the solidus / should be used instead of a horizontal line, care being taken to insert parentheses where necessary to avoid ambiguity, for example, (n-1). Exceptions are the proper fractions available as single type on a keyboard.
• Full formulae or equations should be displayed, that is, written on a separate line.
• The solidus is not generally used for units: ms-1 not m/s.
• Equations should be numbered serially by chapter (1.1, 1.2, etc.) on the right hand side of the page. Short expressions not referred to by any number will usually be incorporated in the text.
• Braces, brackets and parentheses are used in the order {[( )]}, except where mathematical convention dictates otherwise (e.g. square brackets for commutators and anticommutators).

4. Acknowledgements

5. Reproduction of copyright material

Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table or extensive extract (more than fifty words) from the text of a source that is copyrighted or owned by a party other than Taylor & Francis or the contributor. This applies to direct reproduction as well as ‘derivative reproduction', where the contributor has created a new figure or table that derives substantially from a copyrighted source. Authors are themselves responsible for the payment of any permission fees required by the copyright owner. Copies of permission letters should be sent with the manuscript upon submission to the Editor(s).

• Copyright permission letter template

6. Code of experimental ethics and practice and confidentiality

Contributors are required to follow the procedures in force in their countries which govern the ethics of work conducted with human or animal subjects. The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) represents a minimal requirement.

For human subjects or patients, describe their characteristics. For human participants in a research survey, secure the consent for data and other material - verbatim quotations from interviews, etc. - to be used. Specific permission for any facial photographs is required. A letter of consent must accompany any photographs in which the possibility of identification exists. It is not sufficient to cover the eyes to mask identity.

It is your responsibility to ensure that the confidentiality of patients is maintained. All clinical material used in your article must be disguised so that it is not recognisable by a third party. Where possible and appropriate, the permission of the patient should be obtained. Authors are invited to discuss these matters with the editor if they wish.

Book reviews

It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights, including abstracts, to the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the NHS (APP). This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at http://www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

Exceptions are made for Government employees whose policies require that copyright cannot be transferred to other parties. We ask that a signed statement to this effect is submitted when returning proofs for accepted papers.