Articles are invited for consideration by the Editorial Board. All articles are peer reviewed before a decision is made about their publication on the website. Decisions will be made as quickly as possible.

Articles should be emailed to comments@sgul.ac.uk and dduncan@sgul.ac.uk or sent on disk in Rich Text Format to Dorothea Duncan, Division of Mental Health, St George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, London SW17 0RE, UK.

Authors are encouraged to include illustrations (photographs, drawings) which form part of the main text. These should be supplied in a form suitable for reproduction. Tables and graphs should be submitted on separate sheets and not included as part of the text, and their approximate position should be indicated in the article.

Short video clips, i.e. of 10-30 seconds in length, may also be included, but these should be discussed with Michael Woodman before being sent. The consent of people shown in videos and photographs must be obtained before submission to the website.

Authors should indicate whether an article has been published elsewhere. If it has, authors should undertake to supply agreement for their work to be reproduced on www.intellectualdisability.info. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

Articles should either be entry level articles of up to 2,500 words, suitable for an under-graduate student without previous knowledge, or higher level articles that are more technical and may assume background reading. Higher level articles are by invitation only from the Editorial Board and should normally not exceed 5,000 words in total. For 'learned' articles we return all that are not properly
referenced. Authors are asked to include further reading and internet resources together with the references. New authors are encouraged to look at the website before drafting their contribution.

The website favours the terminology 'people with intellectual disabilities' or 'people who have intellectual disabilities'. Please note that terms such as, 'normal people,' 'ordinary people', 'suffering from,' 'deficits,' 'defects' and 'abnormalities' should be avoided. We favour the use of 'people' not 'patients,' except in very specific 'doctor-patient' contexts, 'anomalies' rather than 'abnormalities' 'deficits' or 'defects' and 'people who do not have X' rather than 'normal people.'

Articles which describe legislation, service provision and processes should indicate at the beginning which country is being described.

Articles should be typed on one side of A4, double-spaced (including the references) with wide margins. They should bear the title of the article and the name(s) of the author(s). Articles should have numbered pages and include an abstract of 100-150 words on separate sheets, together with a short biography, and a brief list of keywords. Footnotes should be avoided. Numbers up to ten should be written in full. All abbreviations should be spelled out in full the first time they are used, and UK rather than US spelling should be used.

References should be provided in the Harvard System. They should be indicated in the article by giving the author's name with the year of publication in parentheses. If several articles by the same author from the same year are cited, a, b, c, etc. should feature after the year of publication. The references should be alphabetical and listed in full at the end of the article in the following form:

For books: Hollins S and Perez W (2000) Looking after my Breasts. London: Gaskell.

For articles: Hubert J and Hollins S (2000) Working with elderly carers of people with learning disabilities and planning for the future. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 6, 41-48.

For chapters: Noonan-Walsh P (2002) Women's Health: a contextual approach. In P Noonan-Walsh and T Heller (Eds) Health of Women with Intellectual Disabilities. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Titles of journals should not be abbreviated. Only references cited in the article should be included in the list of references. The names of all authors are required. If there are two authors, both surnames should be cited. Where there are more than two authors, cite the surnames of the first author, then 'et al.' Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their references.

All articles submitted should be written in language that is readily understandable to students and the general reader. Authors should be aware that they are writing for an international audience. Clear and grammatical papers are required. Please note we do not accept lecture notes for publication on the website.

All contributions will be acknowledged within two weeks. Authors may be asked to make minor revisions. Unsolicited contributions which are not considered to fall within the remit of the website will be returned to contributors.

November 2006

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