Author Guidelines
Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research is the official publication of the Research Society on Alcoholism and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism. It is an on-line, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal that publishes original research that contributes substantially to our understanding of the etiology, treatment, and prevention of alcohol-related disorders. The journal accepts both full-length papers and critical reviews. Papers that the editors consider to have cross-disciplinary interest and significance may be highlighted as Feature Articles. The journal also publishes editorial commentaries.
Every effort is made to ensure a timely review and prompt publication of accepted manuscripts. Currently, the average time between submission and publication is approximately 5 months. This includes an initial review time of 33 days, author revision time of 3 months, and a secondary review time of 22 days (when necessary). Thus, the average time that a manuscript is in reviewers' hands is 55 days, for the typical situation in which one revised submission is required. Once a manuscript is accepted, the time to online publication is approximately 4 days.
Ethical/Legal Considerations
Conflict of Interest: This publication requires that all authors disclose any potential conflicts of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise, that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or indirectly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include but are not limited to patent or stock ownership, membership on a company’s board of directors, membership on an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication in this journal.
If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and to collectively list in the cover letter to the Editor, in the manuscript (in the footnotes, or Conflict of Interest or Acknowledgements section), and in the online submission system ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.
Note to NIH Grantees: Pursuant to NIH mandate, Wiley will post the accepted version of contributions authored by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance. This accepted version will be made publicly available 12 months after publication. For further information, see www.wiley.com/go/nihmandate.
A submitted manuscript must be an original contribution not previously published (except as an abstract or a preliminary report), must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere, and, if accepted, must not be published elsewhere in similar form, in any language, without the consent of the Research Society on Alcoholism Each person listed as an author is expected to have participated in the study to a significant extent. Although the editors and referees make every effort to ensure the validity of published manuscripts, the final responsibility rests with the authors, not with the Journal, its editors, or the publisher. All manuscripts must be submitted on-line through the journal’s Web site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/acer. See submission instructions under 'On-line manuscript submission.'
An exception to the requirement that submissions have not previously been published is the posting of manuscripts on a preprint server such as bioRxiv (https://www.biorxiv.org/) prior to submission to ACER. This is allowed by ACER. Preprint servers provide a valuable service by allowing authors to present new findings by alerting the field of their availability without delay. Preprints should, of course, be interpreted with caution, as they have not been subjected to peer review. Patient anonymity and informed consent: It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that a patient’s anonymity is carefully protected and to verify that any experimental investigation with human subjects reported in the manuscript was performed with informed consent and following all the guidelines for experimental investigation with human subjects required by the institution(s) with which all of the authors are affiliated. Authors should mask patients' eyes in photographs and remove patients' names from figures unless they obtain written consent from the patients and submit written consent with the manuscript.
Research ethics. You will be asked during online submission to confirm that your study has been approved by relevant bodies (e.g. institutional review boards, research ethics committees) and that appropriate consent was obtained for studies involving human or animal participants.
Permissions: Authors must submit written permission from the copyright owner (usually the publisher) to use direct quotations, tables, or illustrations that have appeared in copyrighted form elsewhere, along with complete details about the source. Any permissions fees that might be required by the copyright owner are the responsibility of the authors requesting use of the borrowed material, not the responsibility of Wiley or the Research Society on Alcoholism.
Publication Charges
Manuscripts accepted for publication in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research will be assessed a publication charge of $60.00 (U.S.) per page. These funds go directly to support the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA). Page charges will be waived for members of RSA who are acting as first or corresponding author and whose dues for both the past year and the current year are paid in full. At the time the manuscript is accepted, the RSA office will confirm the membership status of the first or corresponding author. To qualify for the waiver, full dues (not reinstatement fees) must be current and have been so for two concurrent years.
Editorial consideration of a manuscript does not depend on the authors' ability to pay the page charge. However, it is expected that, unless a prior waiver has been granted, the charge will be paid by the authors either through research funds that supported the research or another available source of funding. Requests for a waiver of page charges will be considered at the time of acceptance, but only when a rationale is provided and the request is made at the time of initial manuscript submission.
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