Contributions to Traumatology

Call for Submissions

TRAUMATOLOGYe welcomes contributions that focus on the cutting edge of the field of traumatology. The Field of Traumatology focuses on understanding of the immediate and long-term consequences--both positive and negative--of traumatic events and the most effective methods for decreasing the negative consequences and increasing the positive consequences. The Field, therefore, has an interest in the traditional fields of law, emergency and trauma medicine, psychology, psychiatry, social work, sociology, family sciences, and others.

The Ejournal was established in 1995 with its first issue dated April 26, one week following the Oklahoma City bombing. It is within this spirit of shock and attention to helping those affected that TRAUMATOLOGYe was born and exists today. In contrast to its parent publication, the Journal of Traumatic Stress, TRAUMATOLOGYe intends to publish reports about research and treatment approaches still in progress or under development. TRAUMATOLOGYe will also attract contributions by authors who like our 30 day review deadline; that the Traumatic Stress Forum (part of InterPsych Forum Consortium) is the primary sponsor and who receives the preprints with opportunities to respond. But submissions to TRAUMATOLOGYe that meet the specifications of JTS will be forward there, with the permission of the first author. As a result, JTS will retain and strengthen its première leadership in the field. The Ejournal will become known for late breaking reports of interesting findings, innovative assessment methodologies, and treatment approaches that may or may not become important.

In terms of format, the Ejournal is available free (beta version only) to members of the Traumatic-Stress Forum and the first 30 days after the issue is published. During this period they have the opportunity to offer feedback to improve the overall quality of the publication (e.g., from editing to editorializing).

Once the issue is "published" it is made available to subscribers in Email, available at the Ejournal web site. A print and CD-ROM version will be published in the future.

All submissions should be to the Editor (currently, C Figley at Florida State University's Traumatology Institute, cfigley@mailer.fsu.edu via Email. Authors are urged to use the manual of style that is the preference of your field of study. Please identify the convention if it is not by the American Psychological Association.

Each submission is assigned a number and action editor. The Editor sends a confirmation message to the contributor. The Action Editor sends the submission to 2-4 qualified reviewers, at least one of whom must be a member of the Ejournal's Editorial Board.

They are asked to review the submission, blind to authorship, using a standard journal article review sheet. The Action Editor compiles the review sheets and writes a draft letter to the author explaining the results of the reviews and includes them as an attachment. The reviews will not review their authors. The Editor can either accept the letter, as it is, write another version, or some option between them. However, the Editor must accept the judgements of the reviewers.

The author is given the choice of revising for another review, revising without review, or no revisions are needed. There is every attempt to make the review process as productive and humane as possible.

 The review process beginning date is when the submission is accepted for review and ends with the decision letter. The entire process should not take more than 30 days.

Criteria for Contributions

Your contribution must not be considered for or published elsewhere (unless special permission is granted). The content of your contribution must meet minimum criteria to be reviewed. The submission must:

• be an original contribution;
• be limited to total of 5000 words of text or contain an explanation of the need for a longer article to cover the material (articles up to 8000 words will be accepted, but longer articles may have some review and publication delay).
• is compatible with current e-mail specifications of no more than 80 characters per line, ASCII text only;
• includes a title that is no more than 100 characters;
• have the total number of text words in brackets, preceding the body of the text;
• include an abstract that is between 40 and 100 words; and
• be written in a format that follows the most recent version of the American Psychological Association Publication Manual;
• indicates how the contribution how it should be categorized: Either:
• psychological
• biological
• social, or
• some combination;

and either:
• Theoretical
• Research
• essay/opinion/point-counterpoint,
• diagnosis/assessment
• methodological innovation
• treatment innovation, or
• a combination of the above [e.g., psychological, theoretical].

Contributors should attach a copy of the above check list to the submission.

Issues currently available:

1995, Volume I, Issue 1
1995, Volume I, Issue 2
1996, Volume II, Issue 1
1996, Volume II, Issue 2
1997, Volume III, Issue 1
1997, Volume III, Issue 2
1998, Volume IV, Issue 1
1998, Volume IV, Issue 2
1999, Volume V, Issue 1
2000, Volume VI, Issue 1
2000, Volume VI, Issue 2
2000, Volume VI, Issue 3

 Charles R. Figley, Ph.D., Professor
Email: cfigley@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
GreenCrossProjects HomePage:
http://www.fsu.edu/~gcp
Editor of the ejournal, TRAUMATOLOGYe: