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Brain Impairment

A quality peer-reviewed journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI). First established in 1978, ASSBI owes a significant debt to the leadership of the foundation President Dr Kevin Walsh, who is fondly and rightfully acknowledged as the founding father of Australian neuropsychology. Membership is made up of qualified allied health and medical professionals, academics and researchers, and individuals working or involved in brain impairment. While ASSBI provides a unique forum for multi-disciplinary research and clinical practice for Australian professionals working in brain impairment, it also has a high international profile holding joint meetings with the International Neuropsychological Society,  the International Association for the Study of Traumatic Brain Injury, and the International Brain Injury Association. ASSBI is committed to best practice in the assessment and remediation of disorders arising from brain impairment and sponsors the PsycBITETM database of all treatment studies that have ever been published to address psychologically based disorders arising from brain impairment.

Editors
Jacinta Douglas La Trobe University       Robyn Tate University of Sydney
 

Associate Editors
David Shum Griffith University
Jennifer Fleming The University of Queensland

The e-journal version of Brain Impairment is available in over 15,000 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, Institutional Repositories and Author Self-Arching
Brain Impairment is a 12-month delayed Open Access (OA) subscription-based journal with an option for author-funded immediate OA of a limited number of articles, and as such may already fulfill your governing body’s mandated or recommended publication policy under an OA agenda without requiring any action post publication. However, if you are required by your institution or wish to deposit your paper in an Institutional Repository or place on a website you can do so under the following conditions:

Australian Academic Press adheres to an 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 amendments but before it has undergone typesetting, layout, copyediting, and proof correction by the Publisher.

ISSN  1443-9646
3 issues per year
ONLINE + Free Print if Available

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Editorial Board
Vicki Anderson University of Melbourne, Australia
David Andrewes University of Melbourne, Australia
Chris Code,University of Exeter, UK
Jan Ewing Queensland Neuropsychology Pty Ltd, Australia
Gina Geffen University of Queensland, Australia
Wayne Levick John Hunter Children’s Hospital, Australia
Skye McDonald University of New South Wales, Australia
Anne Moseley University of Sydney, Australia
Jenni Ogden University of Auckland, New Zealand
Michael Perdices Royal North Shore Hospital, Australia
Jennie Ponsford Monash University, Australia
Grahame Simpson Liverpool Hospital, Australia
Leanne Togher University of Sydney, Australia
Barbara Wilson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
Huw Williams Exeter University, UK
Mark Ylvisaker College of Saint Rose, New York, USA

Aims and Scope

Brain Impairment is the official journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment. Topics covered include neurology, neuropsychology, psychiatry, clinical psychology, neuropathology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech pathology and anatomy. Submissions are welcome across the full range of conditions that affect brain function (stroke, tumour, dementing illnesses, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy etc.) throughout the lifespan.Through Brain Impairment the society aims to publish and disseminate research relevant to professionals and students working in the area of brain impairment.Features of Brain Impairment include:

• empirical studiessystematic reviewscase reportsbriefer commentaries
• special issues devoted to in-depth treatment of particular topics

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Author Guidelines

To be reviewed for possible publication in this journal all authors must follow the instructions below and submit their manuscript online as instructed in the menu above.

All contributions and general correspondence regarding editorial matters should be addressed to the Managing Editor. All articles are refereed. Papers submitted to the journal must not previously have been published nor submitted for publication to any other journal and must represent original work.

General Style Guidelines

1. 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.
   
   
2. 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).
   
3. 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.
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
5. 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.
   
   
6. 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".
   
   
7. A list of figure captions should follow the tables in the manuscript.
   
   
8. 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:

   Coles, T., Hall, C.M. & Duvall, D.T. (2006). Tourism and post-disciplinary enquiry. Current Issues in Tourism, 9(5), 293–319.

   Hall, C. M., Timothy, D. J., & Duval, D. T. (Eds.). (2003). Safety and security in tourism: Relationships, management, and marketing. New York: Haworth Hospitality Press.

   Faulkner, B., & Russell, R. (2000). Turbulence, chaos and complexity in tourism systems: A research direction for the new millennium. In B. Faulkner, G. Moscardo and E. Laws, (Eds.), Tourism in the 21st century: Lessons from experience (pp. 328–349). London: Continuum.

Digital Submission Guidelines

1. 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.
   
   
2. The first page of the document should include the title of the article only.
   
   
3. 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, along with a maximum of 6 key words.
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
5. 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.

Author Manuscript Checklist

Have I included all of the elements below in my submission?

• first name and surname of all authors
• affiliations (institution and country) of all authors
• name and full postal and e-mail address of the corresponding author
• running head of maximum 50 characters including spaces
• up to 6 key words
• abstract of no more than 250 words in length
• the approximate positions of all tables and figures mentioned in the text indicated by the words "Insert Table/Figure X about here"
• APA style for citations, references, numbers, capitalisation, table and figure captions, and statistical symbols
• all figures supplied separate to text, NOT in colour, and clearly readable

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