ISSN 2007-0780
printed version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS JBHSI

About the journal

The Journal of Behavior, Health, & Social Issues (JBHSI) is a publication that appears twice a year, directed for specialists in human behavior in the fields of health, education, work and social issues that base their endeavors upon scientific findings and also for the general audience that needs to be updated about advances in those themes from the different disciplines that study behavior. The papers are published in English or Spanish. The journal disseminates articles dealing with methodological, theoretical, conceptual and empirical research.

Periodicity

JBHSI is published on May and November, with ISSN 2007-0780 number for its printed and ISSN 2007-0772 for its digital version. The organizational structure for its publication rests upon the Mexican Association of Behavioral Health. The journal is open to individuals interested in contributing for the advancement of knowledge and understanding of the mechanisms that underlie the functioning of animal and human organisms, as well as for the study of processes affecting health behavior in the complex network of social interactions.

Indexation

The journal appears in the following indexes and bibliometric bases: UNAM Catalogue of peer reviewed scientific journals, Latindex, CLASE (Latin American citations in Social Sciences and Humanities), Ibero American Actuality: International index of journals and Ulrich. To look up the most recent indexes in which the journal has been admitted, check the journals web page: http://www.jbhsi.com/

Peer evaluation

The editorial review is made on a double-blind basis so it is necessary to send in a separate file: title of the article, the author's full name, institutional affiliations, e-mail, phone and a brief description of their contribution to the paper. In this file include acknowledgments if applicable. Once the editor has received a paper proposal, he assigns the article to the editorial team in order to send it to review. A member of the editorial team chooses three anonymous reviewers to evaluate each article; reviewers are specialists on the central theme of the article, selected from institutions different from the affiliation of the first author. An article is accepted if it receives two favorable reviews. The final decision for publication is given by the editor, based on the peer's recommendations.

Characteristics of the paper: length and format

• The paper must be original and it must be submitted only to this journal and not to another one, these conditions must be stated in the cover letter.

• Manuscripts submitted to JBHSI usually are between 5 000 and 7 000 characters, without figures, tables, references and appendixes. We encourage the use of Times New Roman size 12 characters, double spaced, with standard margins prepared with Word. Special cases of a greater length accompanied by an appropriate justification could be considered exceptionally.

• Papers should be prepared aligned to the left, without indentations, this applies to all the text, even for titles and references. All paragraphs, titles and subtitles should be flush to the left of pages, without bold or italics letters. We discourage the use of headings or footnotes.

• Empirical studies should be organized as follows: introduction, method, subjects/participants, apparatus and materials, procedure, results, conclusions, discussion and references. Please include the identification of (title), (second language title), (running head), (authors' note), (leveh subtitle), (level 2 subtitle), (level 3 subtitle) to the side of the specific segments. At the end of the paper include a list of the headings of figures and tables.

• Number your pages.

References

All references mustbe-qn the reference list, and all references in the list must be in text. References should be in APA fprmat but without indentation, that is text should be aligned to the left for all references. For entries with more than one author, use the ampersand (&) and a "/' before it for all cases. Add a line feed after each reference.

Errors in references are the responsibility of authors and will delay publication.

Some examples for references:

Articles:

Katz, L, & Epstein, S. (1991). Constructive thinking with laboratory stressor induced stress. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 789-800, available via: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.61.5.789

Johansson, A., & Gotestam, K. C. (2004). Internet addiction: Characteristics of a questionnaire and prevalence in Norwegian youth (12-18 years). Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 45, 223-229, available via: http://dx.doi.Org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-9450.2004.00398.x

Chapters:

Feltovich, P., Johnson, P. E., Moller, J. H., & Swanson, D. B. (1984). LCS: The Role and Development of Medical Knowledge in Diagnostic Expertise. In W.J. Clancey & E.H. Shortliffe (Eds.), Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence: The First Decade. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Pazos Sierra, J. (1987). Sistemas de inferencia dirigidos por patrones: Sistemas de producción. En J. Pazos Sierra (Ed.), Inteligencia Artificial: Programación heurística (pp. 172-260). Madrid: Paraninfo.

Books:

Field, A. (2005) Discovering statistics using SPSS. London: Sage.

Ormerod, T. C. (2005). Planning and ill-defined problems. In R. Morris & G. Ward (Eds.), The cognitive Psychology of planning. London: Psychology Press.

Electronic references:

Arís, N. (2008). El síndrome de Burnout en los docentes de educación infantil y educación primaria en la zona del Valles Occidental. Barcelona, Electronic Journal of research in Educational Psychology. 7(2), 829-848, 2009 (No 18). Recuperado Marzo18, 2011 de: http://convivencia.educa. aragon.es/admin/admin_1/file/Materiales%20-Trab_investigaciones/contador_articulo_3030.pdf

When in doubt consult the latest APA Manual for other cases of references.

About the D0I number

Given that J BH SI is a DO I journal, authors should add DO I identifiers for all references that have one in their manuscript. Use http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/ to search DOI identifiers from each one of your references. To find an identifier, follow the site directions. When the reference has a DOI number, add the following text: "available via: http://dx.doi.org/DOInumberwithout-spaces" if the reference is in English, or "disponible vía: http://dx.doi.org/numeroDOIcomple-tosindejarespacios" if the reference is in Spanish.