Disability and Rehabilitation is an international, multidisciplinary journal which seeks to encourage a better understanding of all aspects of disability, and to promote the rehabilitation process. The journal publishes articles on a range of issues including the severity and magnitude of disability, clinical medicine including gerontology, psychosocial adjustment, social policy issues and vocational and educational training.
Disability and Rehabilitation seeks to encourage a better understanding of all aspects of disablement and to promote the rehabilitation process. New submissions on any aspect of disability and rehabilitation are encouraged.
Disability and Rehabilitation is an international interdisciplinary journal and particularly welcomes contributions from a wide range of professional groups, including medical practitioners, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, clinical psychologists and those involved in nursing, education and engineering.
Disability and Rehabilitation is organised into sections: Literature Reviews; Research Papers, Case Studies, Clinical Commentaries; reports on Rehabilitation in Practice, Correspondence; and major Book Reviews. Occasional Special Issues and specific sections on contemporary themes of interest to the Journal's readership are published.
Disability and Rehabilitation will be of interest to a wide range of professional groups, including medical practitioners, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, clinical psychologists and those involved in nursing, education, ergonomics and engineering.
Editor
Professor Dave M
ller
Suffolk New College
Ipswich
1P4 ILT, UK
Tel: + 44 1473 296521
Fax: + 44 1473 230054
Email: davemuller@suffolk.ac.uk Submissions
All submissions should be made online at Disability and Rehabilitation'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.
Papers should be submitted with any tables, figures, or photographs, all of which should be of high quality suitable for reproduction. Submissions should be in English presented in double line spacing.
The submission should include a separate title page with the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s) and the name and address for offprint requests with a telephone, fax number (including country and area codes), and electronic mail address.
Submissions should include, where appropriate, a formal statement that ethical consent for the work to be carried out has been given. Photographs of patients should be avoided, but if essential patients' consent in writing must accompany manuscript. It is not sufficient to mask identity by covering the patient's eyes. All Authors need to inform the Editor-in-Chief that they have contributed to the paper.
Writing a paper for Disability and Rehabilitation
For all manuscripts, non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
Structured abstracts of around 200 words are required for all papers submitted and should precede the text of a paper. There are no lower or upper word limits for papers submitted to the Journal.
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.
Structure of Paper
An introductory section should state the purpose of the paper and give a brief account of previous work. New techniques and modifications should be described concisely but in sufficient detail to permit their evaluation; standard methods should simply be referenced. Experimental results should be presented in the most appropriate form, with sufficient explanation to assist their interpretation; their discussion should form a distinct section. Extensive tabulations will not be accepted unless their inclusion is essential.
Abstracts
Structured abstracts are required for all papers, and should be submitted as detailed below, following the title and author's name and address, preceding the main text.
There is clear evidence that structured abstracts contain more accessible information than summaries and are therefore of more use to the readership.
All papers submitted to
Disability and Rehabilitation should have a 'structured abstract' of no more than 200 words. The following headings should be used, following the title, author's name and address, and preceding the main text:
Purpose State the main aims and objectives of the paper.
Method Describe the design, and methodological procedures adopted.
Results Present the main results.
Conclusions State the conclusions that have been drawn and their relevance to the study of disability and rehabilitation.
Nomenclature and Units
All abbreviations and units should conform to SI practice. Drugs should be referred to by generic names; trade names of substances, their sources, and details of manufacturers of scientific instruments should be given only if the information is important to the evaluation of the experimental data.
Copyright Permission
Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table, or extensive (more than fifty word) extract from the text, from a source which is copyrighted - or owned - by a party other than Informa UK Ltd or the contributor.
This applies both to direct reproduction or 'derivative reproduction' - when the contributor has created a new figure or table which derives
substantially from a copyrighted source.
The following form of words can be used in seeking permission:
Dear [COPYRIGHT HOLDER]
I/we are preparing for publication an article entitled
[STATE TITLE]
to be published by Informa UK Ltd in
Disability and Rehabilitation.
I/we should be grateful if you would grant us permission to include the following materials:
[STATE FIGURE NUMBER AND ORIGINAL SOURCE]
We are requesting non-exclusive rights in this edition and in all forms. It is understood, of course, that full acknowledgement will be given to the source.
Please note that Informa UK Ltd are signatories of and respect the spirit of the STM Agreement regarding the free sharing and dissemination of scholarly information.
Your prompt consideration of this request would be greatly appreciated.
Yours faithfully
Code of Experimental Ethics and Practice
Contributors are required to follow the procedures in force in their countries which govern the ethics of work done with human or animal subjects. The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) represents a minimal requirement.
When experimental animals are used, state the species, strain, number used, and other pertinent descriptive characteristics.
For human participants 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.
When describing surgical procedures on animals, identify the pre anaesthetic and anaesthetic agents used and state the amount of concentration and the route and frequency of administration for each. The use of paralytic agents, such as curare or succinylcholine, is not an acceptable substitute for anaesthetics. For other invasive procedures on animals, report the analgesic or tranquilizing drugs used; if none were used, provide justification for such exclusion.
When reporting studies on unanaesthetized animals or on humans, indicate that the procedures followed were in accordance with institutional guidelines.
Specific permission for facial photographs of patients is required. A letter of consent must accompany the photographs of patients in which a possibility of identification exists. It is not sufficient to cover the eyes to mask identity.
Clinical Trials Registry
Disability and Rehabilitation requests, as a consideration of publication, that clinical trials are registered in a public repository at their inception and prior to patient enrolment.
The registry must be accessible to the public at no charge, be open to all prospective registrants and managed by a not-for-profit organization. For a list of registries that meet all of these requirements, please see the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/. This is in accordance with the guidelines published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). For more information, see ICMJE Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals http://www.icmje.org
The registration of all clinical trials facilitates the dissemination of information among clinicians, researchers and patients, and enhances public confidence in the research enterprise.
Offprints and Reprints
Offprints and reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased once the article has been published online. Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com). Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through the Publisher when proofs are received. Copies of the Journal can be purchased separately at the author's preferential rate of 
15.00/$25.00 per copy.
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 Articles)
Electronic Processing
The following procedures which will assure we can process your article efficiently:
1. Authors using standard word-processing software packages
For the main text of your article, most standard PC or Mac word-processing software packages are acceptable, although we prefer Microsoft Word in a PC format.
Word-processed files should be prepared according to the journal style.
Avoid the use of embedded footnotes. For numbered tables, use the table function provided with the word-processing package.
All text should be saved in one file with the complete text (including the title page, abstract, all sections of the body of the paper, references), followed by numbered tables and the figure captions.
2. Authors using LaTeX mathematical software packages
Authors who wish to prepare their articles using the LaTeX document preparation system are advised to use article.sty (for LaTex 2.09) or article.cls (for LaTex2e).
The use of macros should be kept to an absolute minimum but if any are used they should be gathered together in the file, just before the \begin{document} command
Articles prepared using LaTeX should be converted to PDF documents (incorporating the illustrations) and these should be submitted online in addition to the associated LaTeX source and graphics files.
The files you send must be text-only (often called an ASCII file), with no system-dependent control codes.
3. Authors using graphics software packages
We welcome figures, but care and attention to these guidelines is essential, as importing graphics packages can often be problematic.
Avoid the use of colour and tints for aesthetic reasons. Figures should be produced as near to the finished size as possible.
All figures must be numbered in the order in which they occur (e.g. figure 1, figure 2 etc.). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. figure 1 (a), figure 1 (b) etc.)
The figure captions must be saved as a separate file with the text and numbered correspondingly.
The filename for the graphic should be descriptive of the graphic e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
Files should be saved as TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), containing all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g., CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
Notes on Style
All authors are asked to take account of the diverse audience of the journal. Clearly explain, or avoid the use of, terms that might be meaningful only to a local or national audience.
Some specific points of style for the text of articles, research reports, case studies, reports, essay reviews, and reviews follow:
1. We prefer US to 'American', USA to 'United States', and UK to 'United Kingdom'.
2. We use conservative (British, not US, spelling, i.e. colour not color; behaviour (behavioural) not behavior; [school] programme not program; [he] practises not practices; centre not center; organization not organisation; analyse not analyze, etc.
3. Single 'quotes' are used for quotations rather than double "quotes", unless the 'quote is "within" another quote'.
4. Punctuation should follow the British style, e.g. 'quotes precede punctuation'.
5. Punctuation of common abbreviations should follow the following conventions: e.g. i.e. cf. Note that such abbreviations are not followed by a comma or a (double) point/period.
6. Dashes (M-dash) should be clearly indicated in manuscripts by way of either a clear dash ( - ) or a double hyphen (- -).
7. We are sparing in our use of the upper case in headings and references, e.g. 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.
8. Apostrophes should be used sparingly. Thus, decades should be referred to as follows: 'The 1980s [not the 1980's] saw ...'. Possessives associated with acronyms (e.g. PA), should be written as follows: 'The APU's findings that ...', but, NB, the plural is APUs.
9. All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate, e.g. 'The work of the Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) in the early 1980s ...'. Subsequently, 'The APU studies of achievement ...', in a reference ... (Department of Education and Science [DES] 1989a).
10. Brief biographical details of significant national figures should be outlined in the text unless it is quite clear that the person concerned would be known internationally. Some suggested editorial emendations to a 'typical' text are indicated in the following with square brackets: 'From the time of H. E. Armstrong [in the 19th century] to the curriculum development work associated with the Nuffield Foundation [in the 1960s], there has been a shift from heurism to constructivism in the design of [British] science courses'.
11. The preferred local (national) usage for ethnic and other minorities should be used in all papers. For the USA, 'African-American', 'Hispanic' and 'Native American' are used, e.g. 'The African American presidential candidate, Jesse Jackson...'; for the UK, 'Afro-Caribbean' (not 'West Indian'), etc.
12. Material to be emphasized (italicized in the printed version) should be underlined in the typescript rather than italicized. Please use such emphasis sparingly.
Mathematics
Special care should be taken with mathematical 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 highlighted in the text and explained 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, and/or a 'Nomenclature' section preceding the 'Introduction'.
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, I /(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. Horizontal lines are preferable to solidi, for example:
61+ 5h +q
3n + 3yz2
But: a/b + c/d + a/d
P = (a2 = b2)(c2 + d2)
The solidus is not generally used for units: ms - 1 not m/s, but note electrons/s, counts/channel, etc.
Displayed equations referred to in the text should be numbered serially (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.
Symbols should not be underlined to indicate fonts except for tensors, vectors and matrices, which are indicated with a wavy line in the manuscript (not with a straight arrow or arrow above) and rendered in heavy type in print: upright sans serif r (tensor), sloping serif r (vector) upright serif r (matrix).
Typographical requirements must be clearly indicated at their first occurrence, e.g. Greek, Roman, script, sans serif, bold, italic. Authors will be charged for corrections at proof stage resulting from a failure to do so.
Braces, brackets and parentheses are used in the order {[( )]}, except where mathematical convention dictates otherwise (i.e. square brackets for commutators and anticommutators)
Citations in Text
We prefer that references are cited using the numerical system (e.g. [3], [5-9]). They should be listed separately at the end of the paper in the order in which they appear in the text.
Notes on Tables and Figures
1. Tables and figures should be valuable, relevant, and visually attractive. Tables and figures must be referred to in the text and numbered in order of their appearance. Each table and figure should have a complete, descriptive title; and each table column an appropriate heading.
Tables and figures should be referred to in text as follows: figure 1, table 1, i.e. lower case. 'As seen in table [or figure] 1 ...' (not Tab., fig. or Fig).
2. The place at which a table or figure is to be inserted in the printed text should be indicated clearly on a manuscript:
[Insert table 2 about here]
3. Each table and/or figure must have a title that explains its purpose without reference to the text.
4. All figures and tables must be on separate sheets and not embedded in the text. Digital copies of figures should be supplied. All figures should allow for reduction to column width (130 mm) or page width (160mm). Please avoid figures that would require landscape reproduction, i.e., reading from bottom to top of the page.
Do not type the caption to a figure on that figure; the legends to any illustrations must be typed separately following the main text and should be grouped together.
Acknowledgements
Any acknowledgements authors wish to make should be included in a separate headed section at the end of the manuscript. Please do not incorporate these into the bionote or notes.
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.
Plagiarism
Informa Healthcare has a strict policy against plagiarism. We define plagiarism as the use of extracts from another person's work that are not placed in quotation marks, without the permission of that person, and without acknowledgement to that person (using the appropriate reference style), with the result that your article presents these extracts as original to you. By submitting your work to an Informa Healthcare journal, you warrant that it is your original work, and that you have secured the necessary written permission from the appropriate copyright owner or authority for the reproduction of any text, illustration, or other material.
If any article submitted to an Informa Healthcare journal is found to have breached any of these conditions, Informa Healthcare reserves the right to reject that article and any others submitted by the same authors. Informa Healthcare may also contact the authors' affiliated institutions to inform them of its findings.
References
References should follow the CBE Citation & Sequence format. Only works actually cited in the text should be included in the references. Indicate in the text with Arabic numbers inside square brackets. Spelling in the reference list should follow the original. References should then be listed in numerical order at the end of the article. Examples are provided as follows:
Journal article:
[1] Steiner U, Klein J, Eiser E, Budkowski A, Fetters LJ. Complete wetting from polymer mixtures. Science 1992;258:1122-9.
Book chapter:
[2] Kuret JA, Murad F. Adenohypophyseal hormones and related substances. In: Gilman AG, Rall TW, Nies AS, Taylor P, editors. The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 8th ed. New York: Pergamon; 1990. p 1334-60.
Conference proceedings:
[3] Irvin AD, Cunningham MP, Young AS, editors. Advances in the control of Theileriosis. International Conference held at the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases; 1981 Feb 9-13; Nairobi. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers; 1981. 427 p.
Dissertations or Thesis:
[4] Mangie ED. A comparative study of the perceptions of illness in New Kingdom Egypt and Mesopotamia of the early first millennium [dissertation]. Akron (OH): University of Akron; 1991. 160 p. Available from: University Microfilms, Ann Arbor MI; AAG9203425.
Journal article on internet:
[5] Loker WM. "Campesinos" and the crisis of modernization in Latin America. Jour of Pol Ecol [serial online] 1996; 3(1). Available: http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_3/ascii-lokeriso.txt via the INTERNET. Accessed 1996 Aug 11.
Webpage:
[6] British Medical Journal [Internet]. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ; 2004 July 10 - [cited 2004 Aug 12]; Available from: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/
Internet databases:
[7] Prevention News Update Database [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US), National Prevention Information Network. 1988 Jun - [cited 2001 Apr 12]. Available from: http://www.cdcnpin.org/db/public/dnmain.htm
Further examples and information can be found in the CBE style manual Scientific Style and Format, sixth edition.
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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