Journal scope statement

The Periodical of Rural Mental Health ® publishes articles on rural mental health enquiry, practice, and policy inside the United states of america and internationally. Focused on issues unique to those living and working in rural areas, the periodical welcomes enquiry on such topics as barriers to improving or accessing care in rural environments, issues faced by underserved populations, and disparities in mental health care.

Discussion of policy implications, community-level issues, and multidisciplinary considerations is encouraged, equally is exploration of integrated care, bear witness-based practices, cultural factors, and upstanding and regulatory considerations. Periodically, special theme sections or entire issues are developed that address topics of meaning involvement to residents of rural communities and those who serve them. Topics take included suicide, the use of applied science, and substance mis-use.

Submissions may have a number of forms, including brief and full-length reports of original inquiry, theoretical or review articles, program descriptions, and letters to the editor. All manuscripts should include word of diversity considerations and exist written for a multidisciplinary audience that includes scholars, forepart-line practitioners, and policy makers.

The Journal of Rural Mental Wellness is a publication of the National Association for Rural Mental Health.

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Submission Guidelines

Prior to submission, delight carefully read and follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may exist returned without review.

Submission

To submit to the editorial part of Timothy G. Heckman, PhD, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission portal Microsoft Word (.docx) or LaTex (.tex) as a zip file with an accompanied Portable Document Format (.pdf) of the manuscript file. Manuscripts that exceed the 25-page limit will be sent back to authors without review.

Prepare manuscripts co-ordinate to the Publication Transmission of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may exist copyedited for bias-gratis language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual). APA Mode and Grammer Guidelines for the 7thursday edition are available.

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Timothy G. Heckman, PhD
College of Public Health
University of Georgia
104B Rhodes Hall
105 Spear Road
Athens, GA 30602
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Peer review policy

Submissions are first evaluated by the editor-in-chief. A submitted manuscript may exist rejected without detailed comments later on this initial review if the manuscript is considered inappropriate or of bereft scientific priority for publication in the Journal of Rural Mental Health ®.

Afterward initial review past the editor, the manuscript may be assigned to an associate editor. Information technology is either the editor or one of the acquaintance editors who selects and sends the manuscript to three or more reviewers for critical evaluation.

The Journal of Rural Mental Health ® uses a double-blind peer review arrangement. Manuscripts are blinded such that authors are unknown to the assigned reviewers and, in plough, all reviewers remain unknown to the authors. The title page should include all authors' names and institutional affiliations. The manuscript should omit this information but should include the title of the manuscript.

Make every endeavor to ensure that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity. Every manuscript is treated by the Editors and reviewers as privileged information and they are instructed to exclude themselves from review of any manuscript that might involve a conflict of interest or the advent thereof.

Comments from reviewers are examined by the editor or associate editor assigned, who then corresponds with the author and makes the final conclusion on acceptance or rejection of the manuscript. Rebuttals should be addressed to the editor-in-main.

Types of manuscripts

The Journal of Rural Mental Health ® publishes articles on rural mental health research, do, and policy within the Usa and internationally.

The journal accepts the following types of manuscripts:

  • original inquiry articles
  • brief reports
  • review articles
  • plan descriptions
  • letters to the editor
  • commentaries

Original inquiry

Original research articles report on information-driven (quantitative or qualitative data), hypothesis-testing research. For original research articles, the abstruse, text, references, and tables may full no more than 25 manuscript pages. Manuscripts should exist submitted with i-inch margins and a 12-point blazon size. Type font should be articulate and readable; unusual typefaces are discouraged. For randomized clinical trials (RCTs), the CONSORT Checklist should be followed.

Brief reports

The periodical accepts Brief Reports that report on rigorous studies of highly specific topics or whose findings are preliminary in nature. An author who submits a Brief Study must non submit the full study to a different journal. Brief Reports should not exceed 14 pages in length and should use 1" margins all around and a font size of 12 point. The abstract should exist no more 100 words. References should be express to no more than than 15 and there should exist no more one table or one figure.

Review articles

The periodical will consider a review article that summarizes the current land of understanding of a topic related to rural mental health. A review commodity surveys, summarizes, and synthesizes previously published studies; it does non report findings from new analyses. Amid other things, review articles might discuss policy implications, evolving community-level issues, and how multidisciplinary approaches might best address rural mental health challenges. Explorations of integrated care, prove-based practices, cultural factors, and ethical and regulatory considerations in rural areas are as well welcomed.

Programme descriptions

Articles that describe a current program developed to prevent or treat weather condition that create or perpetuate dilemmas related to rural mental wellness are welcomed by the journal. One goal of this article type is to facilitate the development of identical or similar programs for use in other geographic areas. Program descriptions should primarily describe the program of involvement, such as how the need for the program was identified, how the program developed over time, ways in which the programme interfaces with the customs, staffing needs, etc. A manuscript that describes the efficacy or effectiveness of the plan may be more than suitable for an original research article. Program descriptions should exist x to 20 pages in length, inclusive of all sections.

Messages to the editor

Letters to the editor can (i) comment on a recently published JRMH article, or (ii) serve every bit a platform in which a non-data-driven idea or business organization tin can be articulated. Letters cannot exist used to present preliminary results. An writer who submits a letter to the editor should not indistinguishable material being published or submitted elsewhere. The editor may seek out and publish letters that respond to the original letter to the editor. Text is limited to 750 words and ten references. A single tabular array, figure, or image is permissible (merely not required).

Commentaries

Commentaries are sought out by the editor and are intended to respond to (or complement) a concurrently published article. Commentaries will merely be solicited for manufactures likely to have pregnant impacts on the field. In full general, commentaries volition non exceed 2,000 words, include no more than two tables or figures (combined), and include no more fifteen references.

Manuscript training: General instructions

Review APA's Periodical Manuscript Preparation Guidelines earlier submitting your commodity.

Clinical relevance of the research should exist specifically and thoughtfully addressed in submitted manuscripts. A special section on clinical implications tin be included, but is not required; instead, authors should integrate implications for practice, as appropriate, into all relevant areas of manuscripts to exist submitted.

Authors should review the updated APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods inquiry. These standards offer ways to improve transparency in reporting to ensure that readers have the information necessary to evaluate the quality of the inquiry and to facilitate collaboration and replication.

The new JARS:

  • recommend the division of hypotheses, analyses, and conclusions into master, secondary, and exploratory groupings to allow for a full understanding of quantitative analyses presented in a manuscript and to enhance reproducibility;
  • offering modules for authors reporting on N-of-1 designs, replications, clinical trials, longitudinal studies, and observational studies, also every bit the analytic methods of structural equation modeling and Bayesian analysis; and
  • include guidelines on reporting on registration (including making protocols public); participant characteristics, including demographic characteristics; inclusion and exclusion criteria; psychometric characteristics of outcome measures and other variables; and planned data diagnostics and analytic strategy.

For further resource, including flowcharts, see Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) website.

Manuscript formatting

Please note the references and tables should be double-spaced, in addition to the manuscript itself. Other formatting instructions, besides as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Publication Manual. Boosted guidance on APA Mode is available on the APA Style website.

Championship page

The manuscript'southward title should be no more than than 12 words and should non state an exclamation or conclusion. If the paper reports a randomized clinical trial or a meta-assay, this should be indicated in the title.

The title folio should list the names of all authors and their institutional affiliations at the time the enquiry was conducted. If an author's institution has inverse since then, provide the current affiliation in an author annotation on the championship page.

The author note should too include, when applicative:

  • school- or department-level affiliations
  • funding sources, fiscal disclosures, and disclaimers (please indicate if no exterior funding was received)
  • acknowledgments
  • related presentations
  • corresponding author's contact information

Abstract and keywords

All manuscripts must include a structured abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a separate page.

The abstruse generally should include the following parts:

  • Objective (brief statement of the purpose/rationale of the study)
  • Methods (summary of the participants, design, measures, and procedure)
  • Results (the primary findings of this work)
  • Conclusions (statement of clinical implications of these data)

After the abstruse, only on the aforementioned page, please supply:

  • Up to v keywords or brief phrases that will help to place your manuscript during relevant searches
  • If applicable, provide trial or protocol registration information on the line following the keywords; for instance:
    • TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT987654321

Public health significance statement

As function of article revisions, authors will be asked to submit a brusk argument of 1–3 sentences written in plain English for the educated public. This text should summarize the commodity's findings and why they are important to the intended audience and should appear after the abstract.

For a mental health care practice journal such as Journal of Rural Mental Wellness, a critical cistron is ensuring that information reaches all psychologists, health intendance professionals, administrators, policy makers, and legislators who could employ it.

The public significance statement packages research findings for easier distribution. Information technology also allows authors greater control over how their work will be interpreted by and bear upon fundamental audiences globally and locally who are interested in the physical health and psychological well-being of rural communities—practitioners, policy makers, news media, and members of the public.

Please refer to the Guidance for Translational Abstracts and Public Significance Statements to help you write this text.

Institutional review board argument and informed consent

Reports of research involving human participants must provide data nigh Institutional Review Board oversight, including the proper name(s) of the approval establishment(s), or an explanation of why the written report was exempt. Informed consent and assent procedures should also be described.

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In online supplemental cloth

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In the text of the article

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Abstruse and keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a separate folio. After the abstruse, please supply upwards to five keywords or brief phrases.

References

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Examples of basic reference formats:

Journal article

McCauley, S. K., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Language learning as language apply: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(1), 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Brown, L. South. (2018). Feminist therapy (second ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited volume

Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. Thousand. P., & Safren, S. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive behavior therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In 1000. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive behavior therapy: Practice and supervision (2d ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012

Figures

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  • an additional $450 for each subsequent figure

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Editorial Lath

Editor

Timothy G. Heckman, PhD
University of Georgia, Us

Associate editors

Timothy Anderson, PhD
Ohio Academy, United States

Lisa Curtin, PhD
Appalachian State University , Usa

Kimberly D. Doudna, PhD
Western Michigan Academy, Usa

Gregory Due south. Felzien, Md, AAHIVS
Georgia Department of Public Health

Deborah Goebert, DrPH
University of Hawaii-Manoa , United States

Carrie Henning-Smith, PhD, MPH, MSW
University of Minnesota, U.s.a.

Stephen T. Higgins, PhD
Academy of Vermont, United States

Dane C. Hilton, PhD
Wofford College, United States

Douglas Knutson, PhD
Oklahoma State University, United states of america

Travis Lovejoy, PhD
Oregon Health and Science Academy , Usa

Kurt Michael, PhD
Appalachian State University , U.s.a.

Raymond Fifty. Ownby, Dr., PhD, MBA
Nova Southeastern Academy (FL) , The states

Samuel J. Pullen, Practise, MS, MPH, FAPA
Duke University, The states

Brian Shiner, Doctor, MPH
Veterans Diplomacy Medical Eye, U.s.

Michele Staton, PhD
Academy of Kentucky , United states of america

Rachel A. Vickers-Smith, PhD, MPH
University of Kentucky, Us

Lance Weinhardt, PhD
Academy of Wisconsin, Milwaukee , The states

James L. Werth, PhD
Stone Mountain Health Services , U.s.a.

Lufei Young, PhD, RN, APRN
Augusta (GA) Academy, United States

Abstracting & Indexing

Abstracting and indexing services providing coverage of Journal of Rural Mental Wellness ®

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Special Problems

  • Substance Mis-Use in Rural Areas

    Special issue of APA'due south Journal of Rural Mental Health, Vol. 41, No. two, April 2017. The articles vary in type of substance, population characteristics, and countries.

  • Rural Suicide

    Special issue of APA's Journal of Rural Mental Health, Vol. 38, No. 2, October 2014. One commodity updates a review of the literature on suicide in rural areas. Other articles discuss rural suicide in Native American communities and military veterans, while others discuss suicide prevention efforts.

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