Editorial policies

Copyright policy

Before publication of an accepted manuscript, the authors must sign the licence to publish form and return it to the Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience.

Corrections

JPN publishes corrections for important errors related to scientific content. Factual errors, important errors in the author byline or affiliations, errors that cause ambiguity or change meaning in the article, missing or incorrect competing interests or funding statements, and missing or wrong references are corrected. Spelling mistakes, incorrect author degrees or contributor statements, missing or misspelled names in the acknowledgements, and errors in references are not corrected.

Preprints policy

JPN will consider for publication papers that have previously been deposited in a preprint server and for which the authors retain copyright. Authors should inform the journal on submission whether a preprint version exists and provide a link to the preprint version. Neither revised versions of the manuscript created during the journal review process nor the published version should replace the draft version on the preprint site. JPN prefers nonprofit, community-based and open access preprint servers that provide preliminary screening for expected standards of research integrity and have policies for handling preprints that violate those standards. Posted preprints should be marked clearly as preliminary, non-peer-reviewed work. To facilitate future publication, the author must retain copyright for the preprint.