The Chimera of Arezzo GUIDE FOR AUTHORS (download)
1. PROCEDURES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Manuscripts should be addressed to both of the Review Editors:
Dr. Alessandro Bartoletti, a.bartoletti@bssteuropeanreview.org
Dr. Gianluca Castelnuovo, g.castelnuovo@bssteuropeanreview.org
Only web-mail submission is allowed. Submission of a paper to Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy European Review is understood to imply that it has not previously been published (except in abstract form) and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts submitted under multiple authorship are reviewed on the assumption that all listed authors concur with the submission and that a copy of the final manuscript has been approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities in the institutes where the work was carried out. Authors are invited to provide the Editors-in-Chief with the indication of the potential subject area of the manuscript.
2. ORGANIZATION OF THE ARTICLE
Format. Submitted papers must be provided in .doc files. Only English versions will be submitted to referees. Articles should not exceed 10 pages of length, excluding Title page, Abstract, References and Illustrations. Each page must be double spaced.
Title page. The title page should contain the following items: (1) complete title (preferably no arbitrary abbreviations); (2) full names of all authors; (3) complete affiliations of all authors; (4) the number of text pages of the whole manuscript (including figures and tables) and the number of figures and tables; (5) the name and complete address of the corresponding author (as well as telephone number, fax number and E-mail address.
Abstract. This should provide a concise description of the purpose of the report or review article and should not exceed 350 words . The abstract should include a maximum of 8 keywords, which reflect the entries the author(s) would like to see in an index.
Authors' full names, academic or professional affiliations, and complete addresses should be included. The name and address plus telephone and fax numbers as well as e-mail address of the author to whom proofs and correspondence are to be sent should be given.
Sections. As a rule, Full Length Articles should be divided into sections headed by a caption (e.g. Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements, References, Tables, Figures and Legends). At least Abstract, main discourse and References should be provided.
Literature references (Bibliography). References in the text should start with the name of the author(s), followed by the publication date in brackets.
Example: … Jones (1970) has shown the importance of … or . . . it has been described (Jones, 1970; Brown and Jones, 1971; Chin et al., 1972). . .; using date order. All references cited in the text should be listed at the end of the paper on a separate page (also double-spaced) arranged in alphabetical order of first author. All items in the list of references should be cited in the text and, conversely, all references cited in the text must be presented in the list. Literature references must be complete, including initials of the authors cited, title of paper referred to, abbreviated title, year, volume, and first and last page numbers of the article, in a periodical. The abbreviations of journal titles should conform to those adopted by List of Serial Title Word Abbreviations, CIEPS/ISDS, Paris, 1985, ISBN 2-904-938-02-8. (See example 2.) The form of literature references of books should be: author, initials, year, title of book, publisher and city, and eventually page number referred to (See example 1.) References to authors contributing to multi-author books or to proceedings printed in book-form should be similar to those for books (See example 1.)
Examples:
1.Books:
Nardone G, Fiorenza A. (1995) L'intervento strategico nei contesti educativi; comunicazione e problem-solving per i problemi scolastici . Giuffrè, Milano .
Nardone G, Watzlawick P. (2005) Brief Strategic Therapy. Jason Aronson, New Jersey, p.124-48.
Watzlawick P, Beavin JH, Jackson DD. (1967) Pragmatic of human communication. A study of interactional patterns, pathologies and paradoxes . Norton & Co., New York.
2.Articles:
Langston JW, Irwin I, Langston EB, Forno LS. (1984) The importance of strategic planning of therapy duration for establishing a positive therapeutic relation. Psych. Res., 50: 289-94.
Illustrations and Tables. All illustrations must be submitted in separate files. The illustrations should bear the author's name and be numbered in Arabic numerals according to the sequence of their appearance in the text, where they are to be referred to as Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc. Tables of numerical data should each be typed (also with double-spacing) on a separate page, numbered sequence in Roman numerals (Tables I, II, etc.), provided with a heading, and referred to in the text as Table I, Table II, etc.
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