About CAPMH

What is CAPMH?

CAPMH (CAPMH) is an open access, online journal that provides an international platform for rapid and comprehensive scientific communication on child and adolescent mental health across different cultural backgrounds.

CAPMH is aimed at clinicians and researchers focused on improving the knowledge base for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of mental health conditions in children and adolescents. This journal serves as a scientifically rigorous and broadly open forum for both interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exchange of research information, involving child and adolescent psychiatrists, paediatricians, psychologists, neuroscientists, and allied disciplines.

Content overview

CAPMH considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the scope of the journal. These articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.
• Commentaries: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the scope of the journal. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders.
• Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction. All case report articles should be accompanied by written and signed consent to publish the information from the patients or their guardians.
• Letters to the Editor: these can take three forms: a substantial re-analysis of a previously published article, or a substantial response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication, or an article that may not cover 'standard research' but that may be relevant to readers.

Peer review policies

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health has a ‘closed’ peer review policy. Manuscripts submitted to the journal will be evaluated initially by the Editorial Board, who will assign at least two expert reviewers either directly, or through a Section Editor. The peer review process will aim to ensure that all published manuscripts are scientifically sound and provide new scientific knowledge. The final decision on a manuscript will lie with the Editor-in-Chief.

Edited by Jörg M. Fegert, CAPMH is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in CAPMH

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central and Scopus.

Articles in CAPMH should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, CAPMH does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to CAPMH using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

CAPMH is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. CAPMH however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

CAPMH's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in CAPMH will be available.

CAPMH is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.