The Journal (J Ment Health Substance Use) aims to provide a platform for the research scholars, and academicians throughout the world to rapidly publish at a nominal fee, share, and discuss innovative, rare, and new findings that expand the knowledge in all areas of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.

All manuscripts published by Mental Health and Substance Abuse are made freely accessible online immediately upon publication, without any subscription charges or barriers. Minimum three independent reviewer’s approval and an editor's approval are taken into consideration for acceptance or rejection of an article.

Authors are requested to submit their valuable research, Original article, Case reports,  Review, mini-review, Short communication, Opinion, Letter to the Editor, etc as an attachment to the editorial office at: mentalhealth@gnosceince.com or editor.substance@gnoscience.com

Related Topics and Keywords

Mental Health and Substance Use, mental disorders, behavioural disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, mood disorders,feeding or eating disorders, Addiction Epidemiology, Alcohol and Addiction Studies, human addictions, Drug abuse, Substance Abuse, Biobehavioral Sciences, General Psychiatry, substance use disorders, neurocognitive disorders, disruptive behaviour or dissocial disorders, suicide and self-injury, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Depression, Drug Rehabilitation, Anxiety, Neuroscience, Neuropsychiatry, Psychopathology, Substance Abuse Treatment, Heavy metal Toxicity,Nicotine Addiction, molecular Neuropsychiatry, Narcotic Analgesics, Smoking Cessation, schizophrenia and bipolar illness, Alzheimer’s and Post-traumatic stress, Opioid-Related Disorders, Morphine addiction, psychopathology, bipolar disorder, catatonic depression, depressive disorder.

Peer Review Policy of the Journal
Journal of Mental Health and Substance Abuse follows a single-blind peer-review process with a minimum of two reviews for each article type. All articles will undergo single-blind peer reviews by two subject experts. Reviewer selection is carried out by the Editor-in-Chief, and the final decision on the article is taken by the EIC based on the reviewer's comments.

Note: Single-blind peer review is a conventional method of peer review where the authors do not know who the reviewers are. However, the reviewers know who the authors are.

Journal of Mental Health and Substance Abuse welcomes the author to submit Research article, Original article, Case reports,  Review, mini-review, Short communication, Opinion, Letter to the Editor, etc as an attachment to the editorial office at: editor.substance@gnoscience.com or mentalhealth@gnosceince.com

Scope: All areas related to Mental health and Substance Abuse aspects such as:

Mental Health and Substance Use, mental disorders, behavioural disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, mood disorders, feeding or eating disorders, Addiction Epidemiology, Alcohol and Addiction Studies, human addictions, Drug abuse, Substance Abuse, Biobehavioural Sciences, General Psychiatry, substance use disorders, neurocognitive disorders, disruptive behaviour or dissocial disorders, suicide and self-injury, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Depression, Drug Rehabilitation, Anxiety, Neuroscience, Neuropsychiatry, Psychopathology, Substance Abuse Treatment, Heavy metal Toxicity, Nicotine Addiction, molecular Neuropsychiatry, Narcotic Analgesics, Smoking Cessation, schizophrenia and bipolar illness, Alzheimer’s and Post-traumatic stress, Opioid-Related Disorders, Morphine addiction, psychopathology, bipolar disorder, catatonic depression, depressive disorder.

Why does Gnoscience Group Charge Article processing fees?

Because Gnoscience is a self-supporting organization and does not receive funding from any institution/government, at the same time we don't charge subscription or access fees, we ask authors to contribute to costs incurred by processing and publishing Open Access work. When you contribute to the Gnoscience Open Access journal, you're funding tools and resources such as:

• ·        Plagiarism check that certifies the originality of your writing.
• ·        In-depth peer review and editorial comments from established experts in your field.
• ·        Thorough proofreading and copyediting from our Editorial Analysts to bring your article up to publishing standards.
• ·        Typesetting and formatting for PDF of an article, ISSN assigning and Volumes and Issue release. Indexing in all applicable partnered databases and reference services, as well as print versions upon request.
• ·        Permanent web hosting for your articles and globally unrestricted access to your content.
• ·        Indexing in all applicable partnered databases and reference services.

We request authors to contribute minimum publication charges as mentioned in the table.

Note: This publication charges are applicable to invited authors also.

Withdrawal Policy

Authors may wish to withdraw their manuscript after submitting. To withdraw a manuscript, we do not charge any fee, unless we haven’t done with the review process. We ask authors to pay 50% of the original article processing fee in case if author wish to withdraw after the review process is completed.

Articles in the areas related to Mental Health and Substance Use, Mental disorders, Behavioural disorders, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Mood disorders, Feeding or eating disorders, Addiction Epidemiology, Alcohol and Addiction Studies, etc are welcome in the Journal of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.

• The manuscripts meeting the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence can be submitted.

• The scholarly articles will be published approximately 15 days after acceptance.

• The articles go through the Single blind review process, where the names of the reviewers are hidden from the authors

Submission Guidelines

1. Author of the article must be responsible for the article during the submission and peer review process, and must follow the instructions for submitting the manuscript.

2. Author must provide a cover letter with the article, where should explain why the manuscript should be published and declare any potential competing interests.

3. Author can provide the contact details (name and email addresses) of two potential peer reviewers for the manuscript. These reviewers should be experts in their field who will provide an objective assessment of the manuscript.

4. The suggested peer reviewers should not have published with any of the authors of the manuscript within the past five years, should not be current collaborators and should not be members of the same research institution.

5. Suggested reviewers will be considered along with potential reviewers recommended by the Editorial Board members.

Procedures to Process to Manuscript

Peer Review Process

After submission, Case reports and Reviews: Open access follows single blinded peer review process where the names of the reviewers are hidden from the authors.

Plagiarism
Only novel manuscripts are approved after submission by the author, following standardized research methods. Manuscripts are subjected towards plagiarism check to determine their originality. Manuscript should not have the same content that is already published online. These acts and gestures are considered unethical publication practices and hence they are not encouraged.

Basic rules to prepare manuscript. Author, kindly go through given instructions

Manuscript Titles
Title should be brief, precise and technical enough to explain the intended meaning of the manuscript. It is usually free from acronyms, abbreviations or punctuation's.

Author Affiliation
Author name includes Last name followed by the concern Initials without space or any punctuation. In case of more than one author, they should be differentiated by the conjunction ‘and’ before the name of the Last author. Their affiliations are denoted by the superscript numbers after the initials of the author’s name. Corresponding author is represented with an asterisk in superscript.

Abstract

The word limit for Abstract is max. 250. It must summarize specifically the scientific content in the manuscript. It should be brief and accurate and must not contain any citations.

Index term/Keywords
Keywords serve as main tool for Indexers as well as Readers to locate your manuscript. Keywords enhance the chances of getting more citations and high readership to your manuscript. An article might contain up to maximum of 4-6 Keywords.

Abbreviations
Abbreviations must be separated by semicolon and all the abbreviations used in the manuscript must be mentioned with its expanded form at first instance.

Introduction
The introduction should discuss the purpose of the study in the broader context. Introduction should be clear to the readers who are not experts in this field. Include a brief review of the key literature. If there are relevant controversies or disagreements in the field, they should be mentioned so that a non-expert reader can delve into these issues further. The introduction should conclude with a brief statement of the overall aim of the experiments and a comment about whether that aim was achieved.

Materials and Methods

This section should provide a complete overview of the design of the study. Detailed descriptions of materials or participants, comparisons, interventions, and types of analysis should be mentioned. However, only new procedures should be described in detail; previously published procedures should be cited and important modifications of published procedures should be mentioned briefly. Capitalize trade names and include the manufacturer's name and address.

Results and Discussion

The results section should provide complete details of the experiment that are required to support the conclusion of the study. The results should be written in the past tense when describing findings in the authors' experiments. Previously published findings should be written in the present tense. Results and discussion may be combined or in a separate section. Speculation and detailed interpretation of data should not be included in the results but should be put into the discussion section.

Conclusion

This section should provide to adhere to support the study conclusions. This section included briefly detailed conclusive parameters of the whole study.

Acknowledgement
Authors can include funding sources and personal acknowledgement in this section. Authors are encouraged to list all the funding sources used for preparation of manuscript. Please provide the grant number and authors associated with specific funding sources.

Supplementary Information
We do not limit the number of supplementary material items that author has to include in the manuscript. Supplementary materials should be named as S (Example Figure S1, Table S1, Video S1, etc.). Make sure that these supplementary items should be cited in the text. They are published as raw dataset along with the manuscript.

References
References must be listed in the numerical system (Vancouver). All references should be numbered sequentially [in square brackets] in the text and listed in the same numerical order in the reference section. The reference numbers must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted before submission.

The references should be relevant to the study and should refer to the original research sources. Self-citation and self-interest should be avoided by the authors, editors and peer-reviewers.

Examples

Journal Article with less than 3 authors: mention name of all the authors.
Nasta AM, Mayo HG, Kim P. Case report of ventral hernia complicating bariatric surgery. J Bio Med Open Access. 2022;3(2):126

Journal Article with more than 3 authors: mention name of the first three authors followed by et al. 

Nasta AM, Mayo HG, Kim P, et al. Gemellamorbillorum: An underestimated etiology of central nervous system infection? J Bio Med Open Access. 2014;17(1):145-148.

Exceptions

Book References: name of the author, Title of Book. Nth ed. Country: Publisher; year 

Mayo HG, Lichtinger A, Kim P. Principles of Genetics. 8th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons; 2009

Book Chapter: name of the author, Title of book: editors: Country: Publisher; year. Page no. 

Yeung SN, Lichtinger A, Mayo HG. Adhesion molecules and site-specific metastasis.In Thrombosis: NeriSerneri SS, Gensini GF, editors: An Update. New York: John Wiley & Sons; 1989. 269-303p.