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Author Resources

Publishing your article in a journal from American Psychiatric Association Publishing means your article reaches audiences in more than 2,000 U.S. and international institutions, a figure that includes nearly 100% of U.S. medical schools and hospitals. Each year there are around 10 million page views of journal content.

APA Publishing is committed to helping our journal article authors get their work discovered by various audiences. As part of this commitment we offer and partner with a variety of services to ensure both a broad reach and targeted messaging.

Once your article is published, you and your coauthors are sent an online access token to view the article. You are encouraged to promote your work by placing article links within e-mail signatures and on professional and academic networking sites. APA Publishing assists you in further dissemination through the following partnerships:

  • TrendMD is an article recommendation service that promotes your article across our journal publishing platform, Psychiatryonline, and on other online platforms that host closely related content so that fellow scholars can find your work easily. These recommendations are informed by what site visitors are currently reading and what others who share related interests are also reading. The recommendations are displayed alongside related articles across thousands of the world’s leading journals that you and your colleagues rely on for quality research.

    TrendMD
  • Kudos is a free communication service to help you use professional and academic networking sites more effectively to maximize visibility of your work. After working with you to create a brief plain language summary of your work, Kudos provides a toolkit to share your work—via email, social media, academic networks or elsewhere—and let people know you have published, greatly improving the discoverability of your article. A study has shown that Kudos participation leads to 23% higher usage of articles that have been explained in plain language and shared. Learn more about Kudos.

  • APA Publishing partners with Altmetric, which monitors the online mentions and shares of your research as soon as it’s published, meaning you can get almost immediate feedback on how it’s being received through daily tracking of 2,000 mainstream media outlets, Wikipedia, citations, social media, and a manually curated list of more than 9,000 academic and nonacademic blogs. Online reference managers are also tracked but are not counted toward the Altmetric Attention Score.

    We encourage you to visit your article on our site often to see how your work is being discussed and cited. The Altmetric Attention Score appears inside a colored badge alongside your article online. The colors of the badge correspond to different kinds of online attention. Read more about how the Altmetric Attention Score is calculated.

  • We use various social media platforms to help make sure your work is seen by the relevant people and organizations. We connect with academic researchers, clinicians, students, authors, and others around the world to promote our content, video, podcasts, conferences and events, relevant news articles, discussion of trends, and other information.

    We encourage you to connect with us on the following platforms and to tag or mention us when promoting your work.

    Learn more about how to get started on Twitter and Facebook.

  • APA Publishing produces three monthly podcasts that reach thousands of listeners. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to hear our editors review new journal articles and books and discuss their importance. Also tune in to other APA podcasts.

    View a list of all journal articles featured in a podcast.

       
  • APA Publishing—and our authors—produce a number of videos explaining our work. Our editors may even select one of your articles to highlight in a video accompanying an issue. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive updates of new videos and view other examples of author-supplied videos featured in our publications. If you are interested in providing a video to highlight your work, please contact us.

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    John J. McGrath, M.D., Ph.D., Professor at the University of Queensland, discusses his article "The Bidirectional Associations Between Psychotic Experiences and DSM-IV Mental Disorders."

    Editor Spotlight
    American Journal of Psychiatry Deputy Editor Daniel S. Pine, M.D., discusses an article titled "Exercise and the Prevention of Depression: Results of the HUNT Cohort Study."

    Author Spotlight
    Jacqueline F. Kauff, M.S.W., discusses her article "An Evaluation of SOAR: Implementation and Outcomes of an Effort to Improve Access to SSI and SSDI."

    Issue Highlights
    American Journal of Psychiatry Deputy Editor Daniel S. Pine, M.D., provides highlights of a recent AJP issue.

  • The DSM-5® Diagnostic Criteria Mobile App is designed to help mental health practitioners, researchers and students fully integrate the new DSM criteria and codes into their practice and study.

    Users have full offline access to all of the criteria sets as well as online access to supporting videos, commentary and resources. Powerful search and customization tools aid and enhance assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical and administrative settings.

    Learn more and download the DSM-5® App.

    DSM Mobile App
  • By nature of being the publishing arm of the American Psychiatric Association, APA Publishing can promote your article through APA’s various publicity vehicles, channels, podcasts and other multimedia, some featuring opt-in audiences of your colleagues numbering in the thousands.

    We also encourage you to contact your institution about preparing a press release about your research, with an embargo tied to the online publication date. The press release should include the full citation of your article and a link to its official publication page on our site. APA Publishing staff can assist you in this process.

  • Read a detailed overview on preparing your manuscript, including general policies, the review process, types of manuscripts published, and guidelines for preparing tables and figures.

    To submit your paper, please visit the ScholarOne manuscript submission site and either create an account or use your existing account. Then follow the instructions to upload your manuscript. When you are submitting your manuscript, you will be asked to include a plain language summary for Kudos.

  • Broad access to the research literature and the rights of our authors are important to APA Publishing. Read our public access policy for guidelines on deposit mandates for research funded by NIH and others and institutional repositories.