Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology welcomes reports of original research and creative or critical review articles which make an original contribution. Articles should not currently be submitted for publication elsewhere.
Topics of interest to the journal include psychological, behavioural, cognitive, affective, dynamic, medical, societal and social aspects of: fertility and infertility; menstruation and menopause; pregnancy and childbirth; antenatal preparation; motherhood and fatherhood; early infancy; infant feeding; early parent-child relationships; postnatal psychological disturbance and psychiatric illness; obstetrics and gynaecology including preparation for medical procedures; psychology of women; nursing, midwifery, neonatal care, health visiting, health promotion and health psychology.
The journal also publishes brief reports, comment articles and special issues dealing with innovative and controversial topics. A review section reports on new books and training material.
All submissions should be made online at the Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology ScholarOne Manuscripts site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.
Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow it to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as “File not for review”.
Editors:
Dr. Maggie Redshaw, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 1LF, UK
Professor Colin Martin, School of Health, Nursing and Midwifery, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr, KA8 0SR, Scotland
Associate North American Editor: John Worobey, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-0270, USA
Book Review Editor: Louise Bryant - Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, UK
Contributions should be as concise as possible and should not normally exceed 3500 words excluding references (2500 words for short reports) with a limited number of tables or figures (not exceeding 6 in number). Any figures should be in black, white and grey tones. The title should not exceed 15 words and the references should be no more than 50 in number. Each paper should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 200 words.
Papers are refereed anonymously. Criteria for review include: importance of topic, theoretical and practical relevance, contribution to knowledge, quality of research design, appropriate analysis and effective interpretation of results.
Diagrams, graphs, drawings and half-tone illustrations should be on a separate sheet labelled 'Figure. 1' and so forth. Where possible they should be submitted as artwork ready for photographic reproduction, larger than the intended size. Where more than one figure is submitted, they should as far as possible be to the same scale.
SI units should be used for all measurements. Imperial measurements may be quoted in brackets. Where studies involve small numbers of subjects, both numbers and percentages of groups should be given.
Authors are advised to avoid sexist sentiments and language, except insofar as these form part of a study.
Manuscripts and correspondence concerning publication of articles will only be kept for 3 years by the Editors.
Page proofs will be sent to the author submitting each article. Correction of typographical errors only will be permitted at this stage. Textual alterations may be charged to authors in exceptional circumstances.
Free article access: Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (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.
Copyright. It is a condition of the publication that authors vest or license copyright in their articles, including abstracts, in the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology. 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 /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.
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