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Australian and New Zealand
Journal of Family Therapy

A quality peer-reviewed journal supported by ANZJFT Inc.

Cordinating Editor
Paul Rhodes

Co-Editors
Alistar Campbell & Glenn Larner

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.

Impact Factor — pending

ISSN  0814723X
4 issues per year
ONLINE (includes free Print)

 2010 SUBSCRIPTION RATE AU$

  Institutions Australia          $230.00
  Institutions New Zealand    $242.00
  Institutions Overseas          $253.00
 

Aims and Scope

With Michael White as its first Editor, the Australian Journal of Family Therapy established a proud tradition of theoretical speculation, humour and the celebration of clinical success. Our journal has never been owned by, or been dependent upon, any university or government agency. It is governed by therapists, for therapists. Under its second Editor, Max Cornwell, the journal widened and deepened to become a refereed journal of international standard, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. Today the journal is known as the ANZJFT, and it aims to represent not only family therapy, but any clinical approaches that can broadly be described as ‘innovative’ or ‘contextual’. ANZJFT continues to publish important research and theory, but has a special ambition to showcase short, reader-friendly papers of direct relevance to anyone working in family-sensitive practice.

All articles are blind refereeded and peer reviewed.

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Author Guidelines

Submit four copies of your original manuscript. Upon acceptance of the article for publication, authors should submit the final version as a Microsoft Word or RTF file.

Manuscript Preparation
Manuscripts must be presented double spaced in a dark, clear, and readable typeface on A4 page size. Number all pages except the figures beginning with the first page. Your submission should have a separate title page bearing the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the contributing author(s) and an abstract of no more than 200 words typed on a separate page. An e-mail address and/or fax/telephone numbers are required for contact purposes and should be stated following the corresponding author’s address in a footnote on the title page.

Headings
Provide headings which subdivide the paper into its key areas. Reports of empirical studies will generally follow a sequence of headings including introduction, method, results and discussion. Review, theoretical, case study and other papers need not follow such a format but should provide a logical structure and appropriate section headings.

Style
The written paper should be logical, economical and precise in structure and use of language.

Tables
Reserve tables for important data directly related to the content of the paper. A well-constructed table should enable data to be isolated from the text and presented in a way that enables the reader to quickly see patterns and relationships of the data not readily discernible in the text. Use brief but explanatory table titles. The table title is placed at the top of the table. Include each table on a separate sheet. When constructing tables use tabs to space your columns as this will make it much easier to typeset the table in the text.

Figures, illustrations and photographs
Electronic submission of artwork 1. Photographs, graphs and figures should be prepared to the correct size (max. width 120 mm) 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 about here’. Figures should be in black and white line art (artwork that has only text and lines, no shades of grey or blocks of colour). Figures created in Microsoft Word, Excel or Power point need to be saved as PDFs. Figures created in a drawing program such as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Freehand, Microsoft Publisher or similar should be saved as an EPS (encapsulated postscript) file or PDF. Figures created in Photoshop or with other photographic software should be saved as a TIF or JPEG. Minimum resolution for scanned graphics is 300 dpi for halftone work (e.g., photographs) and 600 dpi for line art, and these should also be in TIF format. 2. 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.
Referencing
Referencing References and citations should follow the APA format. Some examples to assist you are provided below.

Citations in text
 For a single author: In a recent review, Smith (1992) suggested that … A recent review (Smith, 1992) suggested that … In 1992, Smith suggested that …
For two authors: In a recent review, Smith and Watson (1992) suggested that … A recent review (Smith & Watson, 1992) suggested that … In 1992, Smith and Watson suggested that …
When a work has three, four, or five authors: Cite all authors the first time the reference occurs; thereafter, the name of the first author followed by et al. (e.g., Smith et al., 1991). The full list of authors must be cited in the list of references at the end of the paper. If use of the “et al.” format gives rise to confusion, with another work of the same year and with the same first author, the references should be differentiated by the use of alphabet sequence following the publication year (e.g., Smith et al., 1991a; Smith et al., 1991b).
When a work has six or more authors: Cite only the surname of the first author, followed by et al.; in the reference list, provide initials and surnames of the first six authors and shorten remaining authors to et al.
General: Within a paragraph the year need not be repeated in subsequent citations of the same study provided the study cannot be confused with other studies cited in the paper. When citing several studies within the same set of parentheses, the following format should be adhered to ‘… several studies (Brooks, 1974a, 1974b; Cairns et al., 1992; Miller, in press; Smith, 1992; Tarter et al., 1985, 1987; Watson & Smith, 1990) have reported that …”.

Reference List
Chapter in an edited book: Byng-Hall, J. (1999). Family and couple therapy: Toward greater security. In J. Cassidy & P.R. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical implications (pp. 625–645). New York: Guilford.
Complete book: Guidano, V., & Liotti, G. (1983). Cognitive processes and emotional disorders. New York: Guilford Press.
Paper published in a journal: Diamond, G., Siqueland, L., & Diamond, G.M. (2003). Attachment-based family therapy for depressed adolescents: Programmatic treatment development. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 6, 107–127
Published psychological or other test: Kertesz, A. (1982). Western Aphasia Battery. New York: Grune & Stratton.
Unpublished paper presented at a conference: Kerr, M. (2007, July). Why do siblings turn out so differently? Paper presented at The Family Systems Institute Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Theses: Author, (Year). Title. Type of thesis, Institution, Location of Institution.

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