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Enhancing Clarity and Accountability for Readers

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002;59:14.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

THE NEW "Instructions for Authors"¹ published in this month's issue of the ARCHIVES should certainly be of interest to prospective authors. General readers might be inclined to think that these instructions involve merely arcane details of minimal interest to them. However, we believe that the new requirements, which will eventually be reflected in ARCHIVES articles, will impact all of our readers in 2 important ways: enhanced clarity and increased accountability.

The new requirements for fully structured abstracts will provide readers with more thorough yet succinct and clear summaries of research and review articles. This format should enable readers to more easily apprehend the context and central message of articles, and to decide whether to read the full text in more detail. The new requirement for authors to specify their contributions will provide increased accountability for the work.

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