Submit Special Issue

Guidance for authors submitting to depression and therapy special issues.

Special issues focus on targeted themes in depression and therapy. Authors should align submissions with the issue scope, call for papers, and guest editor requirements.

Each submission still follows standard peer review and ethical requirements.

• Confirm that your manuscript aligns with the special issue theme
• Review the call for papers or issue description
• Identify the special issue name in the cover letter
• Prepare data availability and ethics statements
• Follow the journal formatting and reporting guidelines

Guest editors coordinate peer review with the editorial office. Final decisions are issued by the journal to ensure consistent quality across all special issue submissions.

Use this checklist to ensure proposals and submissions are complete and aligned with journal priorities.

• Define the special issue theme and scope clearly
• Explain the clinical or research significance
• Identify guest editors and affiliations
• Provide a short proposal summary
• List expected article types and volume
• Outline a timeline for submissions and review
• Suggest potential contributors or networks
• Describe review and quality assurance plans
• Provide outreach or promotion strategies
• Align the issue with journal priorities
• Include ethics and reporting expectations
• Share contact details for the lead editor
• Describe how to handle conflicts of interest
• Plan for issue introduction or editorial
• Provide a closure plan and summary deliverable

Planning helps special issues stay on schedule and maintain quality.

• Define review milestones and deadlines
• Plan reviewer recruitment for the issue
• Provide communication plan for authors
• Describe issue marketing strategy
• Include plans for editorial introduction
• Clarify expected acceptance rate
• Provide final issue publication timeline
• Plan for post publication dissemination
• Ensure alignment with journal ethics
• Outline quality control checkpoints