About SATPP

What is SATPP?

SATPP is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of research concerning substance abuse, with a focus on policy issues.

The journal aims to provide an environment for the exchange of ideas, new research, consensus papers, and critical reviews, to bridge the established fields that share a mutual goal of reducing substance abuse. These fields include: legislation pertaining to substance abuse; correctional supervision of substance abusers; medical treatment and screening; mental health services; research; and evaluation of substance abuse programs.

Content overview

SATPP considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Review: comprehensive, authoritative descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. These are usually written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board.
• Commentary: 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.
• Database article: describe a new database or a substantial improvement of an existing database.
• Debate article: present an argument that is not essentially based on practical research. Debate articles can report on all aspects of the subject including sociological and ethical issues.
• Hypothesis: short articles presenting an untested original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence.
• Methodology article: present a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method.
• Short report: brief reports of data from original research.

Peer review policies

The Editor will screen submitted manuscripts for relevance and style. Manuscripts accepted for review will be sent to at least two experts, and possibly a statistical reviewer, to determine originality, scientific merit, and significance to the field. The Editor will decide to reject, reject with the option to resubmit, accept pending revisions, or accept the manuscript.

Edited by Stephan Arndt, Norman Hoffmann and Janet Zwick, SATPP is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in SATPP

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

Articles in SATPP 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:

Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, SATPP 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 SATPP using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

SATPP 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. SATPP however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

SATPP'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 SATPP will be available.

SATPP 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.