Instructions for Authors
1. General Information
Addiction welcomes submissions relating to clinical, epidemiological, human experimental, policy-related and historical aspects of behaviours that have addictive potential including, but not limited to, use of alcohol, opiates, stimulants, cannabis, tobacco, and gambling.
To review an article for Addiction, please see our reviewer guidelines.
For a list of types of articles that Addiction publishes, with definitions, further instructions and word limits, see Section 11 below.
Addiction will not normally accept articles where there is a financial conflict of interest in the following categories: editorial, review and commentary. This includes any financial link (shares, consultancy, employment, paid lectures) between any of the authors in the past three years or pending and any commercial organisation directly involved with the topic of the article. This includes articles that are funded in part or in full by such an organisation.
To submit an article to Addiction please read our requirements and ethical principles below and submit your paper using our online system. We aim to get a response to authors within 12 weeks.
Before submitting your manuscript, consider checking it with Penelope, an online tool that checks the completeness of scientific manuscripts, by using the link below. Penelope checks your Word document in two minutes and does not share or store your document. Penelope was developed by Penelope Research (www.peneloperesearch.com) in collaboration with the EQUATOR Network.
For help in writing randomised controlled trials and other feasibility studies, we recommend the Paper Authoring Tool, an online application for writing research papers in the field of addiction. Please see our editorial on the topic for more information.
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For further guidance on Addiction’s priorities when considering articles please see Addiction's priorities when evaluating submissions.
Addiction prefers authors to delay publicising the findings of submitted papers until the peer review process is finished. This is mainly to avoid confusion should peer review reveal that findings, as stated, are not borne out.
Preprint policy:
Please find the Wiley preprint policy here.
This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers.
This journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, psyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, etc. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to non-commercial servers at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
2. Requirements for Submitted Articles
Authors should pay special attention to the guidance on the website relating to the specific type of article being submitted.
A useful guide to writing up papers for journals such as Addiction can be found in the following checklist for writing up research reports.
The manuscript should comprise a single Word file unless it is essential to put figures in other files. All pages should be numbered.
Figures and tables: All tables and figures should be cited in the text. Do not insert tables and figures into the main body of the text; instead, indicate where they should appear in the text and place them at the end of the document.
Legends should include keys to any symbols. In the full-text online edition of the journal, figure legends may become truncated in abbreviated links to the full-screen version. Therefore, the first 100 characters of any legend should inform the reader of key aspects of the figure.
Front sheet(s): Front sheet(s) should always include title, list of authors, author affiliations and addresses, running head, word count (excluding abstract, references, tables, and figures), declarations of competing interest, and clinical trial registration details (if applicable).
Abstracts:
Abstracts for research reports use the following headings: Aims (or Background and Aims, if appropriate), Design, Setting, Participants/Cases, Intervention(s) (and comparator(s)) (if appropriate), Measurements, Findings, Conclusions. In exceptional cases, abstracts for research reports can be structured under the following headings: Aims (or Background and Aims, if appropriate), Methods, Results, Conclusions.
Abstracts for reviews if purely descriptive, use the following headings: Aims (or Background and Aims, if appropriate), Methods, Results, Conclusions. All others reviews, including meta-analyses, should use these headings: Aims (or Background and Aims, if appropriate), Design, Setting, Participants, Interventions (if appropriate), Measurements, Findings, Conclusions.
Abstracts for study protocols use the following headings: Aims (or Background and Aims, if appropriate), Design, Setting, Participants, Intervention(s) (and comparator(s)) (if appropriate), Measurements, Comments.
Abstracts for Methods and Techniques papers: Where a study is presented, the abstract should be structured (250-word limit) and include the following headings: Aims, Design, Settings, Participants, Measurements, Findings, Conclusions; in the case of non-empirical articles, other abstract structures will be allowed.
Unless otherwise indicated, abstracts should generally be no more than 300 words. Any numbers provided in the abstract must match exactly those given in the main body of the text or tables. With quantitative studies involving statistical tests, abstracts must provide p values or effect sizes with confidence intervals for key findings. The conclusion must provide the main generalisable statement resulting from the study; i.e. the sentence(s) that someone citing the study could use to describe the findings without modification. Do not use abbreviations in the abstract conclusion. See also our guide to writing conclusions in abstracts. Six to 10 key words should be provided.
Headings: Please follow this guide to show the level of the section headings in your article:
FIRST-LEVEL HEADINGS (e.g. Introduction, Method, Discussion) should be in bold, upper case.
Second-level headings should be in bold, lower case with an initial capital letter.
Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter.
Fourth-level headings. These should be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph, with an initial capital letter. The text follows immediately after a full stop (full point, period).
Please do not number headings.
Null findings: Authors should only report ‘no difference’ between conditions or lack of associations if they can demonstrate this by calculating Bayes Factors. A Bayes Factor of less than 0.3 would normally be required to be confident that there really is no difference or association. Otherwise null findings should be framed as ‘the findings were inconclusive as to whether or not a difference/association was present’ or some similar wording.
P-values and confidence intervals: Authors should cite exact p-values for primary statistical tests. Addiction adopts the conventional 5% value for statistical significance and does not accept terms such as ‘trend’ for cases where p<0.10. In general estimated values should include 95% confidence intervals or Bayesian credibility intervals.
References: As a convenience to authors, initial submissions can employ any widely-used reference format. Those submissions ultimately accepted for publication must follow the basic numbered Vancouver style. Provide up to the first six authors and then follow by et al, then the last author if this person is the senior author for the paper. Issue/part numbers are not required. Do not include citations to conference abstracts or unpublished work to support substantive claims but do use them if needed to give credit where appropriate. Please ensure that the introduction and discussion sections of your article cite the most recent relevant literature and not just literature from your own research group, region or country. Papers may include systematic reviews and one or two of the pivotal studies that a review has summarised.
Defamatory statements: Authors should refrain from making defamatory statements about specific individuals or organisations, whether or not they believe these are justified. We will continue to raise issues and make comments about the behaviour of sectors such as the alcohol industry, and we will analyse and critique research and claims made by vested interests.
Hypothesis tests: Addiction expects that authors claiming to test hypotheses will have pre-registered these and the proposed analysis plan, with a date stamp, to provide evidence that the hypothesis was generated prior to viewing the results. A simple way to do this is through the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io). Hypotheses that have been pre-registered can be given the label ‘pre-registered hypothesis’ with a link to the OSF reference. More information available here.
Permission to reprint source material: If a paper uses all or parts of previously published material, the author must obtain permission from the copyright holder concerned. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain these permissions in writing and provide copies to Addiction.
Histograms: Do not include histograms with three-dimensional blocks or shading as this can make interpretation difficult.
Preparation of electronic figures for publication: Although low quality images are adequate for review purposes, print publication requires high quality images to prevent the final product being blurred or fuzzy. Submit EPS (lineart) or TIFF (halftone/photographs) files only. MS PowerPoint and Word Graphics are unsuitable for printed pictures. Do not use pixel-oriented programmes. Scans (TIFF only) should have a resolution of 300 dpi (halftone) or 600 to 1200 dpi (line drawings) in relation to the reproduction size (see below). EPS files should be saved with fonts embedded (and with a TIFF preview if possible). For scanned images, the scanning resolution (at final image size) should be as follows to ensure good reproduction: lineart: >600 dpi; half-tones (including gel photographs): >300 dpi; figures containing both halftone and line images: >600 dpi. Further information can be obtained at Wiley-Blackwell ’s Electronic Artwork Guidelines.
Supporting information: Additional material such as video clips and lengthy appendices (e.g. extensive reference lists or mathematical formulae/calculations), that are relevant to a particular article but not suitable or essential for the print edition of the journal, may also be considered for publication. Please refer to all supporting information in the manuscript using Table S1, Figure S1, etc., and supply such information as separate files (i.e. not embedded within the main manuscript). Supporting information will be published exactly as supplied, so it is the author's responsibility to ensure that the material is clearly laid out, adequately described, and in a format accessible to readers. Further information on suitable file formats etc. may be found at Author Services.
English-language editing: If English is not the first language of authors, they are advised to have their manuscript edited by a native English speaker before submission. However, we will do our best to accommodate papers from authors in countries where the resources do not exist for this.
Unsubmitting articles: A manuscript that does not comply with journal requirements will be unsubmitted and returned to the author.
3. Ethical Principles
The journal supports the ethical principles enshrined in The Farmington Consensus. As such, when submitting papers online, authors will be asked to state that
the material has not been published in whole or in part elsewhere;
the paper is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere;
all authors have been personally and actively involved in substantive work leading to the report, and will hold themselves jointly and individually responsible for its content;
all relevant ethical safeguards have been met in relation to patient or subject protection, or animal experimentation, including, in the case of all clinical and experimental studies review by an appropriate ethical review committee and written informed patient consent. It is expected that the research will comply with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
Authorship: Addiction adheres to the definition of authorship set up by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which requires authorship to be based upon a) substantial contributions to the conception and design of the study, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; b) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and c) final approval of the version to be published. Every author should meet conditions a, b and c. For all articles, the journal mandates the CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy). For more information please see Author Services.
Declarations of interest: These are required for all submissions and should appear after the list of authors and addresses. Declarations of interest do not indicate wrongdoing but they must be declared in the interests of full transparency. Authors should declare sources of funding, direct or indirect, and any connection of any of the researchers with the tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, pharmaceutical or gaming industries or any body substantially funded by one of these organisations. Authors are also required to declare any financial conflict of interest arising from involvement with organisations that seek to provide help with or promote recovery from addiction. Any contractual constraints on publishing imposed by the funder must also be disclosed. Declaring a conflict of interest is the responsibility of authors and authors should err on the side of inclusiveness In line with the ICMJE conflict of interest policy, the time window for these financial links is within 3 years of the date of article submission. If an undeclared conflict of interest comes to light, we reserve the right to publish this prominently and to place it on a public register using words along the lines of '[name] has the following conflict of interest which h/she has not declared'.
Data files and command files: As a precaution against fraud and violation of ethical principles, Addiction may ask authors for original data or copies of original supporting paperwork during the review process. In any event, Addiction encourages authors to provide anonymised data files used in studies wherever possible as well as statistical command files. These should be included as supplementary files to go online with the paper and should be referred to in the paper.
Plagiarism: Plagiarism involves using someone else’s work without appropriate attribution. If sections of text numbering more than 10 words have been copied verbatim these must be put in quotation marks and a full citation given. Copying more than a few lines verbatim is not normally acceptable unless a specific reason can be given and permission has been obtained from the owner of the copyright (and the author, if different). We will treat plagiarism as serious professional misconduct and respond accordingly.
Violations: If serious violation of these ethical standards has been found to occur (e.g. fraud, attempts at duplicate publication or failure to declare obvious and major conflicts of interest), Addiction may take action beyond rejecting the manuscript, including barring authors from submitting to the journal or reporting authors to appropriate authorities.
4. The Review Process
Each manuscript is read by a Senior Editor and those that are considered clearly uncompetitive or unsuited to this journal will be declined without going to full review. This happens to approximately 50% of manuscripts. This process should take no more than 4 weeks.
Manuscripts that pass this stage are sent to an Associate Editor who may return the manuscript before reviews if he or she identifies a serious limitation. Otherwise, the Associate Editor invites reviews and on the basis of these makes a recommendation to the Senior Editor. If the recommendation is to continue with the review process, the Senior Editor will send the manuscript for a methods/statistics review. Following this, the Senior Editor will communicate his or her decision to the authors, taking account of the comments and recommendations received from the Associate Editor and all reviewers. This process should take no more than three months.
If authors are invited to revise a manuscript and resubmit it, they should submit the revised version within 6 weeks. An extension will usually be granted if requested. A decision on the revised version may be taken by the Senior Editor or he or she may consult an Associate Editor or put the revision through another full review process, depending on the nature of the revisions that had been requested. A decision on the revised version should normally take less time than the original review process.
Reviewers have the option of disclosing their identity to the authors by adding their name to the bottom of their review comments. We encourage this in the interests of transparency.
5. Appeals
Requests for appeal will be considered only where the author makes a case that the decision is clearly based on substantive mistake. Evidence is required in support. An appeal will not be heard where there is a difference of opinion about the importance of the findings or where the author believes that issues can be rectified in a revision. Please address appeal communications in writing, containing a paragraph titled ‘nature of the substantive mistake’, to the Editor-in-Chief and send to the Journal Manager: gill@addictionjournal.org .
6. Proof Corrections
When proofs are ready, the corresponding author will receive an email alert containing a link to a web site. It is therefore important that the corresponding author provide a current, working email address. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe website. The file can be opened, read on screen, and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proofs. In your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your e-mail to retrieve the proofs. Proofs must be returned to the Production Editor within three days of receipt.
As changes to proofs are costly, we ask that you only correct typesetting errors. Excessive changes made by the author in the proofs, excluding typesetting errors, will be charged separately.
Other than in exceptional circumstances, all illustrations are retained by the publisher. Please note that the author is responsible for all statements made in his or her work, including changes made by the copy editor.
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