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Behaviour Change
A quality peer-reviewed journal of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy (AACBT). The AACBT is a multi-disciplinary non-profit professional body established in 1978 to promote cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) principles in both theory and practice. Its membership today numbers over 1300 and includes tertiary qualified professionals from psychology, medicine, social work, nursing, occupational therapy, and teaching. The Association encourages, organises and supports research and professional development activities as well as the dissemination of published information to both professionals and the general public about the principles and ethical practice of CBT.
Editor
Ross
Menzies University of Sydney
Associate
Editors
Lucius Arco, Edith
Cowan University, Australia
Neville Blampied, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Paula Barrett, University of Queensland, Australia
Rich Gilman, University of Kentucky, USA
David Heyne, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Alan Hudson, RMIT University, Australia
Lynette Harris, University of Sydney, Australia
Richard Mattick, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre,
Australia
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The e-journal version of Behaviour Change is available in over 40,000 libraries worldwide including 90% of US college and university libraries and every major research library across Australia and New Zealand. It is also available as part of the AAP Online Collection and ALPSP Learned Journals Collection.
Open
Access and Author Self-Arching Policy
Australian
Academic Press adheres to the Open Access (OA) “Green Standard” for
author self-archiving which allows journal authors who have published
in an Australian Academic Press journal to upload their original
accepted-for-publication manuscript (termed an author post-print*)
(NOT the publisher's PDF version) to an online archive, repository,
or website but must stipulate that public availability be delayed
until 12 months after first online publication in
the journal.
* Definition of an author post-print: A post-print is the final draft of an author's
manuscript that has been accepted for publication with any referee's ammendments
but before it has undergone typesetting, layout, copyediting, and proof correction
by the Publisher.
ISSN 0813-4839
4
issues per year
ONLINE + Free Print if Available
2009
SUBSCRIPTION RATE AU$
Within
Australia $250.00
New
Zealand $263.00
Rest of the
World $275.00
Behaviour Change is the journal of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy and has long been considered a leader in its field. It is a quarterly journal that publishes research involving the application of behavioural and cognitive-behavioural principles and techniques to the assessment and treatment of various problems.
Through Behaviour Change, the society aims to publish and disseminate information to members about developments in Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy nationally and internationally.
Features of Behaviour Change include:
- original empirical studies using either single subject or group comparison methodologies
- review articles
- case studies
- brief technical and clinical notes
- book reviews
- special issues dealing with particular topics in depth.
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Associate
Professor Ross G. Menzies
Faculty of Health Sciences
The Universityof Sydney
Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
All articles are refereed. Papers submitted to the journal must not previously have been published nor submitted for publication to any other journal.
General Style Guidelines
- Contributions
should follow the format and style described in the Publication Manual
of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Spelling and
punctuation should conform to The Macquarie Dictionary (4th ed.).
For matters of style not covered in these two publications the Style
manual for authors, editors and printers (6th ed.) should be consulted.
- Uncommon abbreviations
and acronyms should be explained. Do not use underlining except to
indicate italics. Full stops should not be used in abbreviations
or acronyms (e.g., NSW).
- Use single quotation
marks to introduce a word or phrase used as an ironic comment, as
slang, or which has been coined. Use quotation marks the first time
the word or phrase is used; do not use them again. Do not use quotation
marks to introduce a technical or key term. Instead, italicise the
term.
- Do not use any
footnotes. Endnotes should be kept to a minimum and listed at the
end of the text under the centred heading "Endnotes". Acknowledgments
should be placed at the end of the article with a separate heading.
- Tables should
be at the end of the manuscript, not in the main text. Their approximate
positions in the text should be indicated by the words, “Insert
Table X here”. Horizontal and vertical lines should be used
sparingly.
- Photographs, graphs
and figures should be at the end of the manuscript, not in the main
text, and include placement instructions in the Word document, such
as "Insert Fig x here".
- A list of figure
captions should follow the tables in the manuscript.
- References should
follow the format and style described in the Publication Manual of
the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Examples of citations
are:
The theory was first propounded in 1970 (Larsen, 1971).
Larsen (1971) was the first to propound the theory.Examples of references are:
Fisse, B. (1989). The proceeds of crime act: The rise of money laundering, offences and the fall of principle. Criminal Law Journal, 13, 5-23.
Zelinski, E.M., & Gilewski, M.J. (1988). Memory for prose and aging: A meta-analysis. In M.L. Howe & C.J. Brainerd (Eds.), Cognitive development in adulthood (pp. 133-158). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Digital Submission Guidelines
- Documents should
be saved as a Microsoft Word document (or in RTF format if using
another program) double-spaced with minimum margins of 25 mm on both
sides and in A4 page size.
- The first page
of the document should include the title of the article only.
- The second page
should include the title again, with the full names and affiliations
of all the authors followed by a full postal and e-mail addresses
for the corresponding author. A word count and suggested running
head of no more than 50 characters including spaces should also be
provided on this second page.
- The
third page should contain an abstract only, not exceeding 200 words.
It should provide a brief overview of the aims, method and major
findings and should not refer to the body of the text in the abstract.
- FIGURES, GRAPHS,
ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHS, SPECIAL CHARACTERS
To ensure optimum quality, please follow the guidelines below when submitting artwork.
Figures, graphs, illustrations and photogrpahs should be prepared to the correct size and each one supplied as an individual file, separate to the manuscript Word file. Include placement instructions in the Word document, such as "[Insert fig 1 here]".
Figures created in Microsoft Word, Excel or Powerpoint need to be saved as PDFs.
Figures created in a drawing program such as Adobe llustrator, CorelDRAW, Freehand, Microsoft Publisher or similar should be saved as EPS (encapsulated postscript) files.
Figures created in Photoshop or with other photographic software should be saved with a minimum resolution of 600 dpi and in TIF format. Minimum resolution for scanned graphics is 300dpi for halftone work (e.g., photographs) and 600 dpi for line art, and these should also be in TIF format. All figures and graphs should should be in black and white line art (artwork that has only text and lines, no shades of grey or blocks of colour).
All photographs should be supplied as separate files in JPEG or TIFF formats for a minimum 300 dpi resolution. (As a rough guide, the file size of each photograph should be above 200KB).
Manuscripts which contain special characters (equations, Chinese characters, etc.) need to be supplied as a high resolution PDF file (print or press format) with all fonts embedded as well as the Word or RTF document.
Prior to sending artwork, the separate files of figures, graphs, illustrations, and so on, should be printed by the author to test that the fonts have been embedded correctly and there is no distortion in the artwork (e.g., lines and fonts reproduce cleanly with no jagged lines or fuzzy edges), as any such faults cannot be corrected by the publisher.