General Guidelines
Writing a Scientific Paper
Reporting Guidelines
Selecting a Journal
Ethics
Plagiarism Detectors
Professional English Language Vendors/Editing Services
Overview of Author Services (from ISAJE)
Publishers
Established Global Companies
Smaller, Private Companies with National/Continental Focus
Serving as a Peer Reviewer
Note: This page is for informational purposes only. With the exception of Publishing Addiction Science and other resources in blue bold type, ISAJE does not own or actively endorse any of these resources.
- Publishing Addiction Science ISAJE offers a free, comprehensive guide for addiction scientists - especially novice researchers - facing the complex process of publishing in scholarly journals.
- International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
- Publishing in a scholarly journal (American Psychological Association)
Writing a Scientific Paper
- Bem DJ. Writing the Empirical Journal Article (editors’ choice)
- Bourne PE. Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published.
- Lewis ME. Introduction to Journal-Style Scientific Writing
- Authors’ Submission Toolkit: A practical guide to getting your research published
- A Revised Checklist for Writing up Research Reports from Addiction
- Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
- Language and Terminology Guidance (from Journal of Addiction Medicine)
These guidelines reflect current diagnostic trends, are precise, and are respectful of persons with the spectrum of substance use disorders. - A Guide to Writing Conclusions in Abstracts from Addiction
Reporting Guidelines
- Equator Network
An international initiative that seeks to improve the reliability and value of published health research literature by promoting transparent and accurate reporting and wider use of robust reporting guidelines. - Consorting Transparent Reporting of Trials
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA)
- MOOSE Guidelines for Meta-Analyses and Systematic Reviews of Observational Studies
- Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ)
- Guidance for Reporting Qualitative Manuscripts from Addiction
- Temple University's Guide to Systematic Reviews & Other Review Types
Selecting a Journal
- How to Choose a Journal: Scientific and Practical Considerations (Chapter 3 in Publishing Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed)
- Enter your manuscript title and abstract to find suggested journals for manuscript submission:
- Think.Check.Submit
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Babor TF, Ward JH. Caveat Emptor: Predatory publishers, rogue journals, and the potential corruption of addiction science. Guidance for choosing a non-predatory journal.
- Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers "This is an archived list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers from Jeffrey Beall before it went dark in 2017. As scholarly publishing moves quickly, this static list will lose relevancy over time.”
- Brief Overview of Journal Metrics (from ISAJE)
Ethics
- Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) – COPE provides leadership in thinking on publication ethics, practical resources to educate and support members, and offers a professional voice in current debates.
- Retraction Watch
- JAMA policies regarding retraction, replacement, and correction.
- Heckers S, Bauchner H, Flanagin A. Retracting, replacing, and correcting the literature for pervasive error in which the results change but the underlying science is still reliable.
- Christiansen S, Flanagin A. Correcting the medical literature: “to err is human, to correct divine.”
Plagiarism Detectors
- HelioBLAST. The HelioBLAST text similarity engine finds text records that are similar to the submitted query.
- NEW JESTER Collusion Detection. Create reports displaying the correlation and matches between up to eight Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word documents.
Professional English Language Vendors/Editing Services
Overview of Author Services (from ISAJE)
Publishers
Established Global Companies
Smaller, Private Companies with National/Continental Focus
- Enago (China, South Korea, Japan, Turkey)
- Edanz (Japan)
- Scibendi (Canada)
- Science Journal Editors (USA)
- Charlesworth (UK, China)
Serving as a Peer Reviewer
- Springer Nature: "How to peer review" tutorial
- Publishing in a scholarly journal: part three, peer review (American Psychological Association)
Note: This page is for informational purposes only. With the exception of Publishing Addiction Science and other resources in blue bold type, ISAJE does not own or actively endorse any of these resources.