Psychodynamic Practice considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Psychodynamic Practice, 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to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which Psychodynamic Practice incurs and their papers will not be published.

1. General guidelines

• Papers are accepted only in English. British English spelling and punctuation is preferred.
• A typical article will not exceed 5,000 words and should be consistent with the Aims and Scope of the journal. In addition to a more traditional main article selection, we invite shorter, less formal, more spontaneous contributions for Open Space. These papers reflect a range of themes, preoccupations and experience, including thoughts inspired by longer articles as well as psychodynamically oriented explorations of professional, political, social and cultural issues and events. They should be no more than 2,000 words in length. Papers that greatly exceed this will be critically reviewed with respect to length. 
• All articles should be double spaced with wide margins. Authors should also include a word count with their manuscript.
• All the authors of a paper should include their full names, job titles, 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 no more than 300 words are required for all papers submitted.
• Typical articles only should have six keywords.
• Section headings should be concise.
• Please supply a short biographical note no more than 100 words for each author.
• 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
• Please use British spelling (e.g. colour, organise) and punctuation. Use single quotation marks with double within if needed.
• Note: Page numbers are required for articles in readers, journals and magazines. Where relevant, translator and date of the first publication of a book, and original date of a reprinted article should be given.
• For further guidance on the layout of Open Space articles, please refer to the following publications:

• Fodorova, A. (2004) ‘Lost and found: the fear and thrill of loss', Psychodynamic Practice, 10:107-118
• Ross, M (2005) ‘Lady golfers: Sisters of sadists?' Psychodynamic Practice, 11:67-72
• Rosenberg V and Sapochnik C (2005) ‘Martial arts: Enactment of aggression or integrative space' Psychodynamic Practice, 11: 451-458

Word templates

Word templates are available for this journal.
Please open and read the instruction document first, as this will explain how to save and then use the template.

Select the template that is most suitable for your operating system.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/template/TF_Template_Word_Mac_2004_instructions.pdf
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Manuscript submission

Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts electronically. Electronic submissions should be sent as email attachments using a standard word processing program. If email submission is not possible, please send an electronic version on disk. This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.

Main paper enquiries and submissions should be sent to the Submissions Editor, Rosie Rizq at rosierizq@tiscali.co.uk; (Tel: +44 (0)20 8992 6411).

Open Space enquiries and submissions should be sent to the Open Space Editor, Alex Coren, at alex.coren@conted.ox.ac.uk.

Authors are advised to keep a copy of their work.  


Copyright and authors' rights

It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. 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. 

Reprints

Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (http://www.informaworld.com/) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk.