Editorial Guidelines

Information for Issue Editors (February 2022)

1. Please email a description of the issue you are proposing to Mel Bornstein and Daniel Goldin. Tell them what makes your topic worth inquiring into, and the contributors you will invite. Please wait for their green light to issue formal paper requests to your contributors, and once you have it, we hope that your issue will be completed in a timely fashion.

   We understand the vicissitudes of creating an issue — some can be completed in a year, others take longer — but please stay in touch with your contributors and encourage them to complete their papers. One of our editors or associate editors will consult with you on your issue, so please make use of their help.

2. Issues are composed of ~6+ original (unpublished) contributions, a Prologue and an Epilogue. Our publisher uses Times New Roman 12-point font with 1″ margins on all sides. There is flexibility on the length of your issue, and since many issues are on the short side, some can be longer. We never actually use our yearly page limit. We hope the papers in your issue will at least fill 186 double-spaced manuscript pages (116 print pages).

   The Prologue leads the reader into the issue, making the case for the timeliness and significance of the topic of inquiry and could include a summary paragraph for each paper. The Epilogue traces the common themes in the papers, draws conclusions of importance from them, and might suggest areas for further inquiry. Each issue bears the creative stamp of its editor(s).

   Include your Table of Contents so we know the order in which the papers should appear.

3. Psychoanalytic Inquiry is not a peer-reviewed journal, and our issues are composed of papers invited by our issue editors from authors whose work is valued by them. Our spirit is to be generous with our authors and grateful for their contributions, although at times an issue editor needs to work with an author to strengthen a paper. We think the overall interest of a piece is important (the forest rather than the trees).

4. Papers need to include a one-paragraph abstract. The issue editor’s email and land addresses are printed as footnotes on the first page of the Prologue and Epilogue. Authors’ email and land addresses are printed at the bottom of the first page of their article. Then, author affiliations (“Notes on contributor”) appear at the end of the paper prior to the references. PLEASE MAKE SURE THESE ARE INCLUDED WITH THE ARTICLES IN YOUR ISSUE.

5. Please ask your authors to include 5-78 keywords in their articles or add them yourself. Place them beneath the abstract.

6. Please make sure each author puts their name on the word file so our production team may track the papers.

7. We are now using the latest APA manual of style for references. Please make sure references in articles conform to their format.

   The most common editing problem we see in papers are citations missing references. Make certain papers in your issue have references for all citations in the body of the text.

8. Send your completed issue to your consulting editor. Use separate Word files for:

   • Title page
   • Table of Contents
   • Each individual paper
   • The Prologue
   • The Epilogue

   The consulting editor will check the issue for completeness before sending it to the publisher. Completed issues will go into the publication queue in order received, no exceptions. The delay from submission to publication is presently less than 6 months.

9. Joanne Reider-Evans, our production editor, emails page proofs to each author through the CATS system. Authors may submit corrections online (directions are included) or print their proofs, then correct them by hand, and then scan and then email them to Joanne Reider-Evans (joanne.reider@taylorandfrancis.com).

   If an author does not review and return their proofs in a timely manner, the issue editor will need to do so.

   Proof Guidelines: There will be a list of queries from our copy editor that relate to citations and references in the article that do not match up, or references for which an in-text citation is missing or vice versa.

   ALERT

   Disregard the “OPEN ACCESS” question. Open Access is costly and intended for scientists with grant money!

   Additionally, authors should be looking for typos or grammatical errors, should make sure that their name is spelled correctly, their address for correspondence is correct, and that the footnote with their biographical information is correct and current.

   Small edits may be submitted. That said, authors may not rewrite their entire article! Articles should not be submitted until they are finalized. Small revisions (e.g., one or two sentences) are allowed, as are reversions where an earlier revision by a copy editor has altered the meaning of a section. Edits such as these are definitely permissible.

10. Taylor & Francis requires each author to sign a copyright form (example here). This form will be included in email the from the CATS system with your article proofs. Be sure to print, sign, scan, and then email this form to Joanne.

    Taylor and Francis copyright policy: If an author intends to republish their paper in a book, the book author must seek permission from Taylor and Francis when the book will be published.

    Taylor and Francis will grant permission, but they require a formal request from the author. If an author plans to publish the paper in their own book, Taylor and Francis requests contact through the Copyright Clearance Center’s Rightslink (a specific link may be found as part of the article’s online publication).

    Once the request is made through Rightslink, Taylor and Francis will grant permission for the author to re-publish their material. More information here…

11. When the issue is published on the Taylor and Francis website, our publisher sends the issue editor one (1) paper copy and a set of PDF files. Each author also receives an email from Taylor and Francis Online with a link to a .pdf file of their article AND 50 ePrints to send to colleagues.

    Additionally, each author has an authored works page on the Taylor and Francis website containing links to their article(s). To review, sign into their site and check your listing here.

    Authors are entitled to a complimentary paper copy of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry issue containing their paper. To receive this complimentary issue, however, the author will need to register in the CATS system! This order process is not automatic. The order must be completed in CATS before the issue goes to press!

    TIP FOR AUTHORS

    When an author receives the CATS email about the publication, they should immediately log into their CATS account.

    Once logged in, they should select the new article, then click Additional Actions, followed by Complimentaries. Follow the steps to receive the complimentary copy of the journal.

    Reminder: CATS will not accept complimentary copy orders after the issue has been published!

    After journal publication, individuals and organizations may place orders for additional copies at a cost of $25 each with a limit of four additional copies. Orders should be placed directly with Taylor and Francis Customer Service.