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Farmakoterapia w Psychiatrii i Neurologii (Pharmacotherapy in Psychiatry and Neurology) is a quarterly journal that carries scientific and educational papers related in broad sense to the clinical and experimental neuropsychopahrmacology. The journal is addressed to all those interested in the latest developments and research in this area, i.e. psychiatrists, neurologists, pharmacologists, psychologists, and representatives of other related disciplines. The papers in Polish or English language may be submitted to the journal.

The journal is particularly focused on the following topics:

• Pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders
• Pharmacological treatment of neurologic disorders
• Studies on efficacy and tolerability of new psychotropic drugs and drugs used in neurological disorders
• Preclinical pharmacology of psychotropic drugs and drugs used in neurological disorders
• Child and adolescent neuropsychopharmacology
• Neuropsychopharmacology of the elderly
• Mechanism of action of psychotropic drugs
• The effect of pharmacological treatment on brain bioelectrical activity (pharmaco-EEG)
• The effect of pharmacological treatment on cognitive functions and psychosocial functioning
• Psychometric assessment of drug activity
• Adverse reactions of psychotropic drugs and drugs used in neurological disorders
• Pharmacogenetic aspects of neuropsychiatric disorders and their treatment
• Neuroimaging of drugs used in psychiatry and neurology
• Ethics of using drugs in psychiatry and neurology
• Standards of pharmacological treatment in psychiatry and neurology

The journal publishes:

• original papers;
• review papers;
• case studies;
• letters to the editors;
• reports from scientific conferences;
• book reviews.

The address of the editorial office of the Pharmacotherapy in Psychiatry and Neurology is:

Klinika Psychiatrii Dorosłych Akademii Medycznej w Poznaniu
[Department of Adult Psychiatry, Poznań University of Medical Sciences]
ul. Szpitalna 27/33, 60-572 Poznań, Poland

A publication ethics and malpractice statement

1. Publication and authorship: Authors declare that the submitted manuscript contains has not been previously published other than in conference abstract books and has not been submitted to another journal. All of the authors’ possible conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, if related directly or indirectly to the submission, as well as all grants or other forms of financial support are acknowledged in a declaration at the end of the paper
2. Author's responsibilities: A statement is made that all authors have significantly contributed to the research and all data in article are real and authentic and there is no plagiarism. Authors are under an obligation to participate in peer review process and to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
3. Peer review and responsibility for the reviewers: All original, review and casuistic papers are subject to review by two anonymous reviewers from institutions other that that of the authors of publication. Reviewed articles should be treated confidentially. Reviewer’s judgments should be objective, reviewers should have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders. Reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited, The list of reviewers for the articles in given year is published in the last number of journal published in this year.
4. Editorial responsibilities: Editors preserve anonymity of reviewers. Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article. Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept. Editors only accept a paper when reasonably certain, and when errors are found, they promote publication of correction or retraction.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically by Editorial System at address:
www.editorialsystem.com/fpnen

A cover letter should accompany the manuscript, containing a declaration to the effect that:

1. The manuscript has not been previously published other than in conference abstract books;
2. The manuscript has not been submitted to another journal;
3. All of the authors’ possible conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, if related directly or indirectly to the submission, as well as all grants or other forms of financial support are acknowledged in a declaration at the end of the paper;
4. All authors have significantly contributed to the research,
5. All data in article are real and authentic, and there is no plagiarism.

In all cases, the cover letter should be sent by fax, dated and signed by the first author, to: +48 61 848 03 92.

Manuscript preparation

The manuscript should be printed single-sided on white A4 paper, with consecutive page numbering, margins of 2.5 cm on both sides, double-spaced, using a 12pt font. Each part of the paper should start on a new page. The pages should be numbered.

Original and review papers should not exceed 5,000 words in length (including tables, figures, references and appendices).

The title page should contain the title of the paper (in both Polish and English), the full names of the authors, their affiliations, and the title and address of the corresponding author (including the telephone number, fax number and e-mail address).

Page 2 should contain an abstract in Polish, 200–250 words in length for original and review papers, and 150 words in length for case studies. Abstracts of original papers should be structured as follows: aims; materials and methods; results; and conclusions. Below the abstract, 3–6 keywords should be given as per Index Medicus.

Page 3 should contain an abstract in English, following the same structure as the Polish abstract. Below the abstract, 3–6 English keywords should be given. Authors of papers written in English do not have to provide the title and the abstract in Polish.

Page 4 and all the subsequent pages should contain the body text of the paper. Original papers should be structured as follows: introduction; methods; results; discussion and conclusions. The methods section should include a statement of approval by the relevant bioethics commission to undertake the study, and of the subjects’ conscious consent, as well as information on the statistical methods used.

When publishing any work, the author(s) should bear in mind that it must comply with the requirements of the Declaration of Helsinki (1975) – an international medical ethics act which stipulates that it is prohibited to name the patients, give their initials or hospital record numbers.

Only international drug names should be used in the body text of the paper.

Abbreviations used in the text should also be explained at first mention (this also applies to the abstract).

All information on the financing sources (e.g. grant numbers) should be given at the end of the paper. All authors should disclose any financial dependencies and any other information that, if omitted, might raise suspicion of a conflict of interest.

References should be arranged alphabetically and cited using the Harvard system (author’s name and year of publication). In the text, for papers with two authors, the citation in the body text should give both names, while for papers with three or more authors, the name of the first author should be given, followed by “et al.” and the year of publication. The references section should cite the names of the first six authors. For papers with more than six authors, “i wsp. (et al.)” should be used after the sixth name. For books, all editors should be given. Abbreviations of journal names should be used as per Index Medicus.

References should use the following structure:

Journal articles:
Bilder RM, Volavka J, Czobor P, Malhotra AK, Kennedy JL, Ni X i wsp. Neurocognitive correlates of the COMT Val (158)Met polymorphism in chronic schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 2002; 52: 701–707.

Conference proceedings papers:
Groening L, Olivier B. Translation of animal models to human psychopathology. 8th ECNP Regional Meeting, Moscow, Russia, April 14-16 2005. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2005; 15 (suppl 2): S93-S94.

Books:
Maruszewski T. Pamięć autobiograficzna. Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne, Gdańsk, 2005.

Book chapters:
Nasierowski T. Dzieje psychiatrii. W: Psychiatria. Tom I. Bilikiewicz A, Pużynski S, Rybakowski J, Wciórka J (red), Wydawnictwo Medyczne Urban & Partner, Wrocław, 2002; 1–46.

Tables and figures (photographs) should be numbered using Arabic numerals, placed on separate pages and submitted as separate files. Figures should be saved to one of the following formats: .cdr, .tif, .jpg, .ai, .bmp or .eps. Photographs submitted electronically should have a resolution of 300 dpi and should be saved as .tif or .jpg files. The locations of tables and figures should be marked in the body text.
If a figure (photograph) has been previously published, the source should be given, and written permission to use it should be obtained from the copyright holder.