Paging and References layout

Manuscripts must be typed double-spaced on A4 format sheets (21 x 29.7cm). Margins: top-bottom 3cm, left-right: 2cm. Font: Times New Roman: 12pt.

Manuscripts should be arranged as follows:
Title page: The first page of each paper should include the full title, the authors’ full names (no initials of the first name), each author’s affiliation, the address (postal and e-mail) of the corresponding author. Please also supply phone and fax numbers.
Abstract page: The second page should include an abstract not exceeding 350 words and up to six keywords.
Text: Whenever possible, the text should be divided into major sections such as:

• Original theoretical papers: Introduction, Discussion (if useful, this may be divided in more sub-paragraphs), Conclusions, Acknowledgments and References.
• Original research papers: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Statistical Analysis, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments and References.
• Papers about “Negative experimental results”: Introduction, Experimental design (including briefly Materials, Methods and Statistical Analysis), Negative Results, Study Limitations, Discussion of theoretical implications, Acknowledgments and References.
• New ideas: Introduction (including Methods when useful), Discussion, Conclusions and References. The text should not exceed 1500 words (title, author(s) names, affiliation, address and references excluded).
• Dialogues: Manuscripts should not exceed 700 words (references included; title, author(s) names, affiliation and address excluded). They might be written as commentaries to already published articles with their own title but without abstract and keywords. Tables and figures are not allowed.

Endnotes: Avoid footnotes. When essential, endnotes numbered consecutively and typed in a separate page at the end of the manuscript (after conclusions) are allowed.

Tables and illustrations: Tables and illustrations should have a title and should be numbered in Arabic numerals. They should be prepared on separate sheets and their number should be kept to a minimum. Any abbreviations used must be defined. High resolution illustrations should be submitted in TIF, JPG or PNG format (choose the preferred format). Illustrations should be sent in a file separated from the text. Figure legends should be typed single-spaced below the figure.

References: References in the text, endnotes, tables, and legends must be identified by giving the name of the author(s) followed by the year of publication. When there are two authors, write “X and Y” instead of “X&Y”.
When there are more than two authors, only the name of the first author should be given, followed by “et al.”.
When it is cited more than one work of the same author(s) published in the same year, the year of publication should be followed by a consecutive letter, accordingly to the order of appearance in the text (e.g. 2002a, 2002b, etc.).
The articles and/or books republished from original editions or translated in other languages should be referenced to citing the dates of both the editions (e.g. Husserl, 1931/1960).
In repeating the literal words of an author it is necessary adding the page number of the text cited (e.g. “The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another …” (Rogers, 1959, p.210).

Examples:

• The third revolution in late twentieth century psychiatry was the emergence of a rapidly expanding new cross-disciplinary field of philosophy and psychiatry (Fulford et al., 2003; Fulford and Stanghellini, 2008).
• The so-called phenomenological-anthropological psychiatry (see also Kraus 2001b) was (at least immanently) strongly inspired by transcendental philosophy.
• According to Husserl (1931/1960) empathy is given as non primordial experience.

References List: References should be listed in alphabetical order in a reference list at the end of the article. They should be typed double-space. The reference list must include all authors referred to in the text, endnotes, tables or legends. In the reference list, all authors should be listed. When essential, material submitted for publication but not yet accepted, as well as other unpublished writings, should be directly mentioned in the text as “unpublished” or “personal communication” and not be included in the reference list.
References should follow the style of the “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals” (N Engl J Med 1997; 336:309-315) with the exception that paging should be complete. The titles of journals should be abbreviated in accordance with the Index Medicus system. For identifying and citing articles published online without volume or issue information the complete weblink and the date of the last access should be included.
References should include: the surname of the authors followed by initials, year of publication in brackets, titles of papers referred to, the abbreviated title of the journal, volume, first and last page number of article cited.

Examples:

• Papers published in periodicals: Green B, Young R, Kavanagh D. (2005) Cannabis use and misuse prevalence among people with psychosis. Br J Psychiatry, 187:306-313.
• Books: Hacking I. (1999) The social construction of what? Harvard University Press, Cambridge and London.
• Chapters in edited books: Alarcón R, Alegria M, Bell CC, Boyce C, Kirmayer LJ, Lin K-M, Lopez S, Üstün B, Wisner KL. (2002) Beyond the funhouse mirrors: research agenda on culture and psychiatric diagnosis. In: Kupfer DJ, First MB, Regier DA. (Eds) A research agenda for DSM-V. American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC:219-281.
• Reprinted and/or translated editions: Husserl E. (1931/1960) Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: The Hague.

Style: Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro Sciences reserves the right to modify manuscripts where necessary to make them conform with the style of the journal. Before publication the journal’s language editor will revise manuscripts in order to control stylistic requirements.