This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

The instructions below are specifically directed at authors that wish to submit a manuscript to Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. For general information, please visit our Author Services website.

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adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which Anxiety, Stress, & Coping incurs and their papers will not be published.

Contributions to Anxiety, Stress, & Coping must report original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.

Manuscript preparation

1. General guidelines

• Papers are accepted only in English. American English spelling and punctuation is preferred.
• A standard submission will not exceed 30 manuscript pages (APA style) overall, not including the title page. Submissions presenting a series of studies may exceed this limit. Further, authors may send an inquiry about more extended manuscripts to the Editors. Papers that greatly exceed this will be critically reviewed with respect to length. Authors should include a word count with their manuscript.
• Brief reports are a maximum of 15 manuscript pages (APA style) overall, not including title page.
• The title page should contain the title of the paper, a short running title and author details. All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses. 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).
• Manuscripts should be accompanied by a covering letter disclosing the existence of any closely related manuscripts (overlapping in terms of data or research aims) that have been submitted for consideration to the same or to any other journal.
• Abstractsof up to 200 words are required for all papers submitted.
• Each paper should have six keywords.  
• Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
• 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

• Please follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition (2009).

If you have any questions about references or formatting your article, please contact authorqueries@tandf.co.uk (please mention the journal title in your email).

3. Figures

• It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 300 dpi for grayscale and 600 dpi for colour. Axes of graphs should be properly labeled and appropriate units given.
• Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
• Figures and photographs should be planned so that they reduce to 12.5 cm column width. The preferred width of submitted drawings is 12-25 cm, with capital lettering 4 mm high, for reduction by one-half. Photographs for grayscale reproduction should be approximately twice the desired size.
• 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).
• All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper with consecutive Arabic numerals (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. figure 1(a), figure 1(b)).
• Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
• The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.

4. Colour

The Journal has no free colour pages within its annual page allowance. Authors of accepted papers who propose publishing figures in colour in the print version should consult Taylor & Francis at proof stage to agree a financial contribution to colour reproduction costs. Figures that appear in black-and-white in the print edition of the Journal will appear in colour in the online edition at no cost to the author, assuming colour originals are supplied.

5. Reproduction of copyright material

As an author, you are required to secure permission if you want to reproduce any figure, table, or extract from the text of another source. This applies to direct reproduction as well as "derivative reproduction" (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source). For further information and FAQs, please see http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/permission.asp. This applies to direct reproduction as well as ‘derivative reproduction', where the contributor has created a new figure or table that derives substantially from a copyrighted source. Authors are themselves responsible for the payment of any permission fees required by the copyright owner. Copies of permission letters should be sent with the manuscript upon submission to the Editor(s).

• Copyright permission letter template

   

  6. Informed consent

Manuscripts must include a statement that informed consent was obtained from human subjects. Authors should protect patient anonymity by avoiding the use of patients' names or initials, hospital number, or other identifying information.

7. Code of experimental ethics and practice and confidentiality

Contributors are required to follow the procedures in force in their countries which govern the ethics of work conducted with human or animal subjects. The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) represents a minimal requirement.

For human subjects 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. Specific permission for any facial photographs is required. A letter of consent must accompany any photographs in which the possibility of identification exists. It is not sufficient to cover the eyes to mask identity.

It is your responsibility to ensure that the confidentiality of patients is maintained. All clinical material used in your article must be disguised so that it is not recognisable by a third party. Where possible and appropriate, the permission of the patient should be obtained. Authors are invited to discuss these matters with the editor if they wish.

8. Drug names

Generic rather than trade names of drugs should be used, although trade names may be mentioned in parentheses in the first text reference to the drug.

9. Conflict of Interests

All authors of accepted articles will be required to complete a declaration of competing interests and/or financial support.


Manuscript submission

All submissions should be made online at the Anxiety, Stress, & Coping ScholarOne Manuscripts site. New users should first create an account. Once logged onto the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website.

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://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/copyright.asp. 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.

Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website 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.

Page charges

There are no page charges to individuals or institutions.

iOpenAccess

Authors whose manuscripts have been accepted for publication have the option to pay a one-off fee of US$3250 to make their article free to read online via the Anxiety, Stress, & Coping website. Choosing this option also allows authors to post their article in an institutional or subject repository immediately upon publication. 

• Further details on iOpenAccess

Visit our Author Services website for further resources and guides to the complete publication process and beyond.