Publishing Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed. A comprehensive guide for addiction scientists facing the complex process of publishing in scholarly journals. Topics include: choosing a journal, publishing qualitative research, responding to reviewers' reports, becoming a reviewer, and appropriate responses to ethical issues common to addiction.

Journal Info Database:
Developed for researchers, this search tool helps identify and select journals for publishing a paper. Provides information on over 18,000 titles, including impact factors.

Journal sites on the Web (some with full text):

Directory of open access journals
FreeMedicalJournals.com
High Wire Press

PSYCHLINE. Armin Günther
PubMed Central
PubMed Central Canada

Citation Generators:

KnightCite Citation Composer

APA Style:

APA style help .
APA documentation. UW-Madison Writing Center

APA style essentials. Vanguard University of Southern California

APA formatting and style guide. Purdue University

Other Writing Guides:
Citing medicine: the NLM's style guide for authors, editors, and publishers

Guidelines on style for scientific writing. WG Hopkins, Sportscience

Medical writing centre. Canadian Medical Association

Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. (aka the Vancouver Guidelines)

Instructions to Authors:
Instructions to authors in the health sciences. Raymon H. Mulford Library

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