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reported in their articles was supported by an NIH grant will be sent by Elsevier to PubMed Central (PMC) for public access posting
12 months after final publication. The version of the article provided by Elsevier will include peer-review comments incorporated by
the author into the article. Because the NIH "Public Access" policy is voluntary, authors may elect not to deposit such articles in PMC.
If you wish to "opt out" and not deposit to PMC, you may indicate this by sending an e-mail to NIHauthorrequest@elsevier.com.
General information
The Journal of Pain publishes original articles related to all aspects of pain and pain
management and welcomes submissions from clinical and basic researchers, medical specialists, psychologists, nurses, physical therapists,
social workers, and workers in related fields. The Journal of Pain is interdisciplinary in focus and committed to advancing
knowledge about pain mechanisms and pain management. The Journal will publish reports of original clinical research, reports
of original basic research, Focus Articles, Critical Reviews, and Case Reviews in Pain.
Manuscript preparation
Authors
must submit manuscripts electronically, uploading documents to the submission website (http://ees.elsevier.com/jpain/ ).
The system will convert documents to PDF files. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts in Microsoft Word.
Please follow
the instructions below when organizing
manuscripts.
Pages must be numbered consecutively, beginning with
the title page. Materials
should be presented in this order:
cover letter; manuscript (as a single file title page,
abstract, perspective, text, acknowledgments,
references,
figure legends); figures; tables.
Title page (page 1) —
The title should be a concise and
informative
description of the study and should indicate
animal species if the research was conducted on nonhuman
animals. The title page should
include the authors' names, department(s), institution where the work was done, and institutional affiliations of authors. The corresponding
author must be clearly identified and phone/fax/e-mail information must be provided. The title page should include a short running title
(45 characters, excluding spaces) and up to six words to be used for indexing.
Abstract (page 2) —
An abstract of
200 words or less should describe concisely the purpose of the study, the main findings, and conclusions, all in one paragraph without
subheadings. References hould not be included in the abstract.
Perspective — This item, limited to 50 words, should
appear
at the end of the abstract. The perspective presents
a synopsis of the work to facilitate understanding of its
significance. Authors
of basic science reports should highlight
the potential clinical relevance of their results for
the benefit of clinical readers. Authors
of clinical science
reports should highlight the underlying mechanisms for
the results, for the benefit of clinical scientists and basic
scientists. Example: "Perspective: This article
presents the psychometric properties of a new measure
of spouse responses to patient
chronic pain and well behavior.
This measure could potentially help clinicians who
seek to assess how spouse responses may contribute
to
patient pain and disability." References should not be
included in the perspective.
Text —
The text of the article
should include the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion. Subheadings in
the Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion sections should be used as necessary to aid organization and presentation,
but
subheadings and sections should not be numbered. All
sections of the text should be written concisely. Limit theIntroduction
to 600 words and the Discussion to 1500
words. Note that section labels may not apply to some
article types, including Focus
Articles and Critical Review
Articles.
Human subjects — Articles involving research conducted in human subjects must
include a statement in Materials and Methods indicating approval by the Institutional Review Board and that informed consent
was obtained from each subject. Subjects should be identified only by number, not name or initials. Articles involving resesarch conducted
in non-human animals must include a statement in Materials and Methods, indicating approval by the Institutional Review Board
and that the care and use of animals conformed to applicable national/international guidelines. Footnotes are not permitted in the text.
Information must be cited parenthetically, or within the references section.
Acknowledgments — The acknowledgments
must follow
the Discussion. In this section, all authors should disclose
any potential conflicts of interest. This includes
honoraria,
travel to conferences, consultancies, stock
ownership (excluding publicly owned mutual funds), equity
interests, and patent-licensing
arrangements (particularly
if a commercial product is noted in the article). Research funding sources must be acknowledged, including
corporate, grant, institutional, or departmental
funds. If this does not apply, authors must provide a brief
explanation in the covering
letter accompanying the
manuscript.
Figure legends — A legend must be provided for each figure. Legends should be placed
on the same page, following the Acknowledgments section, and should appear in numerical order.
Figures — Figures
All figures must be cited in the text; figures
must be cited in consecutive order. Computer-generated
figures should use solid fills
or cross-hatching,
not tonal shading. Figure legends should be presented
separately and placed in the manuscript after
the list of references.
Figure legends should be brief
and not repetitive of description in the text. Color
figures may be accepted but any cost related to reproduction
is the responsibility of the author. However,
authors who are members of the American Pain
Society may qualify for complimentary production
of
essential color figures. Also, essential color figures
may be published in the electronic version of The
Journal at no cost
to the authors, regardless of membership
in the American Pain Society.
TIFF and EPS are the preferred formats for artwork.
All type
fonts used in studio-created artwork must be
either "embedded" in the file or supplied separately.
All graphic files supplied as bitmap
format (not vector
format) in TIFF, JPEG or GIF must be submitted in
sufficiently high resolution (240-300 dpi for grayscale
or color
images and 600-1000 dpi for line art) to
allow for printing. See Elsevier's website for guidelines
for preparing electronic artwork:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
Cover images — The Journal of Pain will publish appropriate
images on the Journal cover. Selected figures may
accompany a submitted manuscript (authors should
make a note in the covering letter),
or images may be
submitted individually. Authors are encouraged to submit
art for consideration; materials may be uploaded to
http://ees.elsevier.com/jpain
.
Tables — Tables should be comprehensive without reference
to the text and should not be repetitive of descriptions
in the text. Every table should consist of two
or more columns; tables with only one column will be
treated as lists and incorporated
into the text. Cite all
tables in the text; number them consecutively and in order of appearance.
Explanatory matter and source notations
for borrowed
or adapted tables should be placed in a table
footnote, not in the title or table body.
References —
The reference list should appear at the end of the manuscript. The list must be in alphabetical order, according to the surname of the
first author. In cases of multiple citations by the same first author, references should be listed by chronological date of the publication.
In cases of multiple citations by the same first author and different second, third, etc. authors, references should be cited in alphabetical
order according to the surname of the second, third, etc. authors. Within the text, papers should be cited using superscript numbers
that correspond to the alphabetized reference list as follows: "Similar changes were demonstrated in the cingulate cortex15."
All authors must be listed in the references; the use of et al is not acceptable. Journal abbreviations should conform to the
style used in Index Medicus, National Library of Medicine. Unpublished data, personal communications, and abstracts that cannot
be retrieved by readers (eg, some meeting abstracts), and other inaccessible materials should not be listed as references. Unpublished
materials may be cited parenthetically within the text. For manuscripts containing citations that are in press, authors must have electronic
copies immediately available in case reviewers/editors request these materials. If all or part of this research was presented in
Abstract
form at an American Pain Society annual
meeting, please note this at the end of the Introduction
and include the citation in the list
of References.
For information on formatting a specific Abstract reference,
contact the Editorial Office at jpain@jpain.us.
Citation examples:
Journal articles Doe J, Jones S, White K: New directions in pain management. J Pain
1:10-16,2004
Chapter/article in book Heinricher M, Morgan M: Supraspinal mechanisms of opioid analgesia, in Stein C (ed): Opioids
In Pain Control: Basic and Clinical Aspects. Cambridge, UK, 1999, pp 46-69
Proceedings
Milligan ED, Langer SJ: Neuropathic
pain control in rats. Proceedings of the International Association for the Study of Pain 11th World Congress on Pain, Seattle, WA, 2005
Software
SAS Institute. SAS/STAT software: Changes and enhancements through release 6.12. Cary, NC: SAS Institute, 1996
Supplement
Boucher TJ, Okuse K, Bennett DL, Munson JB, Wood JN, McMahon SB: Potent analgesic effects of GDNF in neuropathic
pain states. Science 29(Suppl 1):124-127, 2000
Epub Ahead of Print
Jones B, Smith A. The relationship of immunoreactivity
and HPA-axis measurements. Ann Emerg Med. 2007 Feb 8; [Epub ahead of print]
URL
The American Academy of Pain Medicine:
The use of opioids for the treatment of chronic Pain: A Consensus Statement. Available at: http://www.painmed.org Accessed March 9,
2006
For other examples not listed here, please contact The Journal of Pain editorial office at jpain@jpain.us
or at (319)430-4118.
Permissions —
To use tables and figures borrowed or adapted from another source, authors must
obtain permission from the copyright holder (usually the publisher). This is necessary even if you are the author of the borrowed material.
It is essential to begin the process of obtaining permissions early; a delay may require removing the copyrighted material from the article.
Give the source of a borrowed table in a footnote to the table; give the source of a borrowed figure in the legend of the figure. The
source must also appear in the list of references. Use exact wording required by the copyright holder. Send copies of the letter granting
permission, identified by table or figure number, to the Editorial Office via fax at (312) 275-7776.
Submission of materials, etc.:
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically (see directions at http://ees.elsevier.com/jpain/
).
A Mandatory Submission
Form (pdf) must accompany all submissions. This form should be downloaded, signed and faxed to (312)275-7776.
Accepted manuscripts — Page proofs will be sent via e-mail as a .pdf file. Authors are asked to return proofs within
48 hours by e-mail or fax. There are no author page charges for The Journal of Pain.
Note to NIH Grant Recipients: Authors
who are accepted for publication in The Journal of Pain after May 2, 2005 may indicate that they wish to meet the NIH request for public
access to their manuscript by sending an e-mail to NIHauthorrequest@elsevier.com. Elsevier will subsequently send the
author's manuscript incorporating changes made during the peer review process to PubMed Central, and authorize its posting 12 months
after final publication.
G.F. Gebhart, Editor The Journal of Pain
Center for Pain Research
University of Pittsburgh
W1444 BST
200 Lothrop St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2536
Tel: (319) 430-4118
Fax: (312) 275-7776
Special Features
Focus
Articles/Critical Reviews — A Focus Article may
present a hypothesis or state a position on a basic scientific
or clinical
topic related to pain. The position may be
provocative, but must be based on scientific evidence,
and referenced accordingly. A Review
Article offers a
summary of a topic s pertinent literature to present a
position. These are not intended for the presentation of
unpublished
data. Authors wishing to submit a Focus Article
or Critical Review should contact the editor
(jpain@jpain.us). The title/topic
of the article, a short outline
of proposed content, and intended date of submission
should be provided. Focus Articles will undergo
the
same rigorous review as unsolicited manuscripts of original
research. Agreement of the editor to receive and consider
an article
does not imply acceptance.
Commentaries on Focus Articles/Critical Reviews — The
editor may solicit commentaries on Focus
Articles or Critical
Reviews. Readers of the Journal are encouraged to
write unsolicited commentaries or Letters to the Editor.
Commentaries should be limited to less than 2000 words
and are subject to editorial review.
Case Reviews in Pain — This
feature is intended to
translate science and clinical expertise through a case
study format. A brief case study will describe the
clinical
course of an individual with a common or
complex pain syndrome. Scientists, clinicians, and
other professionals with expertise relevant
to the
case will be invited to provide commentary reflecting
their area of interest. The case study author, in consultation
with the
Associate Editor, will solicit responses;
the case studies and responses will be published
simultaneously. Guidelines for preparing
commentaries
will be provided by the Associate
Editor.
Individual authors wishing to submit a case report for
consideration should propose the
title/topic, a brief outline,
and names of suggested commentators to Judith A.
Paice, Associate Editor for Case Studies in Pain, atj-paice@northwestern.edu.
Case studies will undergo
peer review; agreement to consider manuscripts does not
imply acceptance.
Letters to the Editor — Letters to the Editor should be
single-sided, double-spaced, and limited to 500 words or
less. If related to a previously
published article, the article
should be identified by title, author(s), and volume/page
numbers. The letter will be shared with the
authors, who
will be given the opportunity to respond in writing. All
letters are subject to editorial review.
Meeting announcements
and press releases are not published
in The Journal.
