INTRODUCTION
Contributors are strongly encouraged to read these instructions carefully before preparing a manuscript for submission, and to check the manuscript carefully for compliance with these notes before submitting it for publication
TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS
Full length research papers As a guide, full length research papers should normally occupy six to ten printed pages (approximately 4000-7000 words).
Short communications Short communications should occupy up to four pages (not more than 2500 words) including up to four figures and tables and twenty references. They are expected to be reports of complete studies and not preliminary studies.
Scientific correspondence and commentary This section is designed to provide a mechanism for the exchange of practical information, advice and opinions. The opinions and advice expressed are not necessarily those of the editors of the Journal, and publication will be at the Editor-in-Chief's discretion.
Reviews Reviews will be published regularly and by invitation only but we welcome suggestions for timely topics and potential authors for reviews. Authors should submit a summary for consideration by the Editor-in-Chief before starting work on the manuscript [e-mail Professor John A Russell: j.a.russell@ed.ac.uk]. Each review should normally be no longer than ten printed pages.
MANUSCRIPTS
All submissions should be made online at Stress's Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.
Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it represents original work not previously published, that is not being considered elsewhere for publication, and that if accepted for publication it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, without the consent of the Editor and Publisher. Authors will be required to transfer copyright to the publisher, or if this is not possible they will grant an exclusive licence to publish the paper. All papers must be in English.
PRESENTATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Papers should be typed double-spaced with wide margins (3 cm), complete with full title, abstract, abbreviated title for running headlines (up to 35 characters), six to eight keywords, references and figures. Except for reviews, each paper should be presented in the following order: title page, abstract, keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgements, references, tables and explanatory figure legends. Short communications should be organised in the same way.
Experiments on humans and animals Authors must follow the International Statutes on human and animal experiments. All experiments on human subjects must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement that all procedures were carried out with written consent of the subjects. All animal experiments must be carried out in accordance with the European Communities Council Directives of 24 November 1986 (86/609/EEC) or the National Institute of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (NIH Publications No. 80 23, revised 1978).
Declaration of interest It is the policy of all Informa Healthcare to adhere in principle to the Conflict of Interest policy recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE, http://www.icmje.org/index.html#conflict).
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organisations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. It is the sole responsibility of authors to disclose any affiliation with any organisation with a financial interest, direct or indirect, in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript (such as consultancies, employment, paid expert testimony, honoraria, speakers' bureaus, retainers, stock options or ownership, patents or patent applications or travel grants) that may affect the conduct or reporting of the work submitted. All sources of funding for research are to be explicitly stated. If uncertain as to what might be considered a potential conflict of interest, authors should err on the side of full disclosure.
All submissions to the journal must include full disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest. If there are no conflicts of interest, authors should state that there are none. This must be stated at the point of submission (within the manuscript after the main text under a subheading "Declaration of interest" and, where available, within the appropriate field on the journal's Manuscript Central site). This may be made available to reviewers and will appear in the published article at the discretion of the Editors or Publisher.
If no conflict is declared, the following statement will be attached to all articles:
Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
The intent of this policy is not to prevent authors with these relationships from publishing work, but rather to adopt transparency such that readers can make objective judgements on conclusions drawn.
Determining Authorship Stress also expects that submitting authors have followed the principles for determining authorship set out by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors ICMJE, http://www.icmje.org/index.html#author. By submitting a manuscript to Stress, the submitting author is assumed to give an assurance that all co-authors have agreed to the list and to be included, and have agreed to the order of authors on the manuscript.
Title page The title page should include, in addition to the title, surnames and initials of each author followed by his or her department, institution and address including postcode and country. Please indicate the author for correspondence, whose telephone, fax and email numbers should also be included. The present addresses of authors should appear as a footnote if different. The title page should also indicate the number of manuscript pages, figures and tables.. Pages should be numbered.
Keywords Six to eight keywords should be listed in alphabetical order at the bottom of the title page.
Abstract This should be no more than 200 words in length, should summarize the significant findings and should not contain any references. This should be included in the main manuscript document, as well as entered into the appropriate field on Manuscript Central.
Text headings Set first-level headings in the text over to the left, typed all in capitals (upper case) and in bold; begin the text on the following line. Second-level headings should be typed with initial capital letter, in small lower case letters and in bold. For third-level headings, type similarly but not in bold. For fourth-level headings, type similarly but in italics:
FIRST-LEVEL HEADINGS
Second-level Headings
Third-level Headings
Fourth-level Headings
Acknowledgements Acknowledgements should be included at the end of the text.
References References and notes are cited in the text by author's names (et al. should be used for papers authored by more than two persons) and year of publication. All references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper. Listed references should list author's first name, followed by initial(s), year, title, publication (in italics), volume, and including page numbers:
Hernandez DE, Arandia D, et al. 1988. Psychological factors in peptic ulcer disease; role of stress. Clinical Research 36: 794A.
Tachibana M, Senuma H, Ebara T, and Kumamoto KAF. 1991 Stress increases the secretory products of rat nasal mucosa goblet cells. Res. Comm. Chem. Pathol. Pharmacol. 73: 153-158.
Walker CD, Aubert M, Meaney MJ, and Driscoll P. 1992. Individual differences in the activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical system after stressors: use of psychogemetically selected rat lines as a model. In Driscoll, P. (ed), Genetically Defined Animal Models of Neurobehavioural Dysfunctions (Boston/Basel/Berlin: Birkh
user), pp 276-296
Unpublished results (including articles submitted for publications) or personal communications should be cited as such in the text only.
If a citation is available only, or most readily, on the world-wide web (WWW), then the following style should be used for the address: <www http://www.blouk.com/article.html>
Footnotes Authors are encouraged to minimize the use of footnotes. A footnote may include the designation of a corresponding author of the paper, current address information for an author (if different from that shown in the affiliation), and traditional footnote content. Information concerning grant support of research should appear in a separate Acknowledgements section at the end of the paper, not in a footnote. Acknowledgements of the assistance of colleagues or similar note of appreciation also properly belong in an Acknowledgements section, not in footnotes.
Footnotes should be indicated in the text by the following symbols: * (asterisk or star), (dagger), (double dagger) ¶ (paragraph mark), § (section mark), || (parallels), # (number sign). Do not use numerals for footnote call-outs, as they may be mistaken for bibliographical reference call-outs or exponents. Type each footnote at the bottom of the typescript page on which its reference appears.
Footnotes within a table should be indicated by the same symbols listed above. Reinitialize symbol sequence within tables. Type footnotes to a table directly beneath the table.
Figures All figures should be numbered with consecutive Arabic numerals, have descriptive legends, and be mentioned in the text. Keep figures separate from text, but indicate an approximate position for each figure in the text document. 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).
Illustrations The quality of line drawings must be of a high enough standard for direct reproduction. No additional artwork redrawing or typesetting will be done. Digital photographs should be high resolution. Illustrations should be prepared to fit either into a single column width (75 mm) or double column width (160mm), in the case of line drawings, after 50% reduction. All lettering must be clearly legible and not less than 4mm in height; symbols on graphs must be clearly distinguishable.
Colour illustrations Illustrations can be printed in colour, but a charge will be made (see below). In certain cases it will be necessary to reproduce colour plates in black and white in the print copy of the journal, though plates can be reproduced in colour in the online edition free of charge.
Figure legends These can be entered on Manuscript Central when a file is designated as 'figure'.
Tables Tables should be consecutively numbered with Arabic numerals, and have a clear descriptive title at the top. Explanatory table footnotes are encouraged (please also see Footnotes above).
Abbreviations and conventions Abbreviations which are non-standard should be defined in the text when first used. Whenever possible restrict the use of abbreviations to SI (Systeme Internationale) symbols.
TEXT CALL-OUTS TO FIGURES, TABLES, ETC.
Text call-outs to figures, tables and other elements are the basis for searching articles on electronic delivery. Therefore proper designation of text call-outs to figures and other elements is essential to the success of electronic delivery. When referring to a figure, table or other element within an article, always refer to the element by its full name: `See Table 1', `Figure 1 illustrates...', `Refer to Scheme 1'. Do not use ambiguous call-outs (for example, `1 illustrates...') that do not clearly denote the element being referred to.
PROOFS
The corresponding author will receive an e-mail when proofs are ready for checking and will be required to submit one set of corrections within 24 hours. Please ensure that telephone and fax numbers and email are given on the first page of the manuscript. Authors' alterations in excess of 10% of the original composition cost will be charged to authors. Papers will not be published until authors have confirmed accuracy of the proofs.
Papers are published online on i-first as soon as they are ready and subsequently in the paper issues of the Stress journal.
Offprints and Reprints
Offprints and reprints of articles published in Stress can be obtained through Rightslink ®. Please contact the Reprints Administrator Sherry Howard at reprints@tandf.co.uk to obtain a quotation or to place an order. Copies of the Journal can be purchased separately at the author's preferential rate of 
15.00/$25.00 per copy.
PAGE CHARGES
There are no page charges to individuals or to institutions. On acceptance of their manuscript authors will be offered the option of making their article freely available online in pertuity for a fee of $3100
Colour figures a. Any figure submitted as a colour original will appear in colour in the journal's online edition free of charge and can be downloaded.
b. Paper copy colour reproduction will only be considered on condition that authors contribute to the associated costs. Charges are:
500/US$1030 for the first colour page and
250/US$515 for each colour page after per article. (Colour costs will be waived for invited Review).
NIH PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY In consideration of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy, Informa Healthcare acknowledges that the broad and open dissemination of NIH-funded-research results may benefit future scientific and medical research. Because we value the current and future contributions our journals make to the scientific body of knowledge, we have made certain that our policies accommodate those authors who wish to submit to PubMed Central.
Informa Healthcare's position with respect to public access to NIH-funded work published in Informa Healthcare journals is as follows:
- Informa Healthcare authors may voluntarily submit their funded work to PubMed Central after a 12-month embargo period;
- “funded work” shall be defined as the final, peer-reviewed manuscript that is accepted by the Editor in Chief of the journal. This manuscript must not be altered by Publisher's copyediting and typesetting services; and
- this embargo period begins the day the work is published online at www.informaworld.com.
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