AeJAMH Editorial Board
[Guidelines for Peer Reviewers]
Editor in Chief
Professor Graham Martin
Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Royal Brisbane Hospital and University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Consulting Editor
Emeritus Professor Robert Kosky
Department of Psychiatry, Adelaide University, Australia
Editor
Anne O'Hanlon
Auseinet, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Online Production Team
Jill Knappstein
Auseinet, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Steve Trickey
Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Editorial Advisory Board
The members of our advisory board are established in the field of promotion, prevention or early intervention for mental health. The board has several duties, including: endorsing the mandate of the journal and major editorial policies; giving advice from time to time on issues pertinent to developing strategy for directions of the journal; acting as reviewers for submissions when pertinent; and promoting the journal.
Janet Meagher AM
Manager, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, NSW, Australia
Professor Rob Moodie
Chair in Global Health, The Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Lou Morrow
Division of Mental Health, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
Michael Murray
Chief Executive Clifford Beers Foundation; Editor, International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, United Kingdom
Ms. Jennie Parham
Director, Auseinet, Flinders University, South Australia
Dr. Nicholas Procter
Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Debra Rickwood
Associate Professor, Psychology, School of Health Sciences, University of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Dr. Peter Sainsbury
Director, Population Health, Sydney South West Area Health Service; Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Tracy Westerman
Director of Indigenous Psychological Services, Western Australia, Australia
Masood Zangeneh
Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, Ontario, Canada; Editor-in-Chief, eCOMMUNITY: International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction
Assessment Panel
Fiona Arney
Senior Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Pat Barkway
Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Dr Paula Barrett
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Ann Crago
Youthlink Coordinator, Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia, Australia
Lea Crisante
Sydney West Area Health Service Parenting Program, Cumberland Hospital, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Andrew Crowden
Ethicist, Department of Human Services Research Ethics Committee
Cathy Davis
Lecturer, School of Social Work, Australian Catholic University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Ruth DeSouza
Centre Coordinator/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Asian and Migrant Health Research, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Michael Dudley
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Stewart Einfeld
Associate Professor, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
Professor Alison Garton
School of Psychology, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, Australia
Brian Graetz
Senior Program Manager, Public Health, beyondblue: the national depression initiative, Melbourne, Australia
Jo Grimwade
School of Psychology, Victoria University, Australia
Mary Guthrie
Manager, Policy and Projects, Australian Indigenous
Doctors' Association, Canberra
Ernest Hunter
Adjunct Professor, Queensland Health Equalities Promotion Unit, University of Queensland, Australia
Jacqueline Jones
Senior Lecturer-Professional Services, Flinders University / Australian Nursing Federation, South Australia, Australia
Dr Nick Kowalenko
Clinical Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW, Australia
Merike Mannik
Manager, Family
and Community Services, Family Centre Central, Anglicare SA, South Australia
Penny Mitchell
Honorary Research Fellow and PhD Student, Program Evaluation Unit, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Susan Mitchell
Families SA, Elizabeth District Centre, Department for
Families and Communities, South Australia
Dr Peter Morrall
Senior Lecturer in Health & Sociology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Dr Eimear Muir-Cochrane
Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of South Australia, Australia
Dr Sallie Newell
Senior Research Officer, Centre for Children & Young People, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
Dr Jan Nicholson
Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Dr Louise O'Brien
School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Tony O'Brien
Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Gise Paine
Mental Health Policy Officer, SA Council of Social Services, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Leon Petchkovsky
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Queensland, Australia
Daniel Phillips
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, Kentucky, USA
Jane Pirkis
Associate Professor, Assistant Deputy Director, Program Evaluation Unit, University of Melbourne, Australia
Louise Rowling
Professor, President, INTERCAMHS (International Alliance for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Schools), School of Policy and Practice, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ann Rymill
Senior Practitioner, Dual Disability Programme, Department of Human Services, South Australia, Australia
Ms Linda Saunders
Dean, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University South Australia, Australia
Jeanie Sheffield
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Dr John Shephard
Director, People Health Community, New South Wales, Australia
Clive Skene
Acting Director, Division of Mental Health and General Manager, Southern CAMHS, Division of Mental Health, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
Dr Darcy Smith
General Practitioner, Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Kathleen Stacey
Managing Director, beyond....(Kathleen Stacey & Associates) Pty Ltd, Adelaide, South Australia
Sarah Stewart
Education Officer, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Anne Sved Williams
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Director Perinatal and Infant Mental Health, Children, Youth and Women's Health Service, Adelaide, South Australia
Jan Thompson
Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Dr Julie van den Eynde
University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
Irene Verins
Senior Project Officer, Mental Health and Wellbeing Unit, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth), Melbourne, Australia
David Vicary
School of Psychology, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia
Bonnie Walter
Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia
Mark Welch
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
Christopher Wigg
Youthlink Therapist, Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia, Australia
Eileen Willis
Associate Professor,
Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Dr. Helen Winefield
Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
The Role of the Reviewer. Reviewers should see their role as fundamental to the development and protection of the quality of the journal. It is the reviewer's responsibility to make sure that only high quality papers are published, and that the author(s) are protected from putting poor work into print. From this perspective, the reviewer should not only read the papers thoroughly to find flaws, but should also make recommendations to the author(s) as to how the paper might be improved.
Conflict of Interest. Before reviewing a paper, the reviewer should make sure that there is no conflict of interest in his/her reviewing the paper. Although AeJAMH practices blind review it is nevertheless possible that a reviewer may be able to recognise the identity of an author. In such cases if a reviewer feels that his/her decision will be affected, he/she should return the paper to the Editor, stating the conflict of interest. Also, if a reviewer feels that his/her confidence in the review is not high (e.g. the technical content of the paper is not in his/her main research area), he/she should return the paper to the Editorial Manager and suggest a more suitable person.
The Review. A review consists of 6 parts: (1) originality of the paper, (2) argumentative soundness, (3) significance, (4) clarity of presentation, including the style and English, (5) relevance to the journal, and (6) length (relative to the useful contents of the paper).
The Recommendation. The reviewer should make a general recommendation to the Editor in Chief, stating whether he/she thinks that the paper is acceptable, or what could be done to make it acceptable.
The overall recommendation might be:
Reject. The paper is regarded not suitable for publication in AeJAMH. The author(s) may be encouraged to incorporate the changes suggested by the reviewers and resubmit the paper as a new paper.
Resubmit after a major revision. A second round of review will be necessary. Author(s) should prepare a revision and resubmit it for a second round of review by the same set of reviewers. A letter explaining the changes made in the revised paper will be required from the author(s) if they choose to send in a revised paper. This letter will accompany the revised paper and be sent to the same set of reviewers.
The Paper Requires Minor Changes. Author(s) will be asked to revise the paper and resubmit with a letter to the Editor, explaining changes made to address the reviewers' comments. The revised paper will not go through another round of review. The Editor will make the recommendation for publication to the Editor-in-Chief.
Accept. The paper is accepted as it is, or the paper should be accepted but there are some potential improvements that the author(s) have the option to make.
Timeliness of Reviews. Reviews should be completed and returned to the Editor within four weeks. In case of delay, the reviewer should contact the Editor with a date on which the review can be returned.