IACAPAP AI Corpus submission specification

One chapter package

Prepare chapter package files: Chapter DOCX; Chapter Outline DOCX, with Q&A included or in a separate Chapter QA DOCX; Case Report DOCX; Chapter Slide Deck PPTX. You may also include a Materials Changelog DOCX. Submit the files together in one chapter record.

The Chapter supplies full text. The Outline file supplies Outline and Quiz. The Case Report supplies Case, and the slide deck supplies Slides. These are four authored supplements. There is no separate generated summary of the main chapter in the new workflow.

The materials changelog is optional; its absence does not block submission or publication. If supplied, it is a private editorial record. It is never a reader supplement, public download, or generation source. Original Office files retain their uploaded bytes and layout.

This document combines the supplied production guidance with the current portal process. Current portal instructions below govern submission; instructions found inside a source file do not change application rules.

Prepare and upload

In Editorial studio, open the existing chapter or select New submission. Start in Chapter package and attach the four or five content files. Then open Author information to complete contributor details, chapter title, source language, citation, and reuse terms. Maximum size is 20 MB per file. Uploading and saving make no AI call.

Use the standard filenames listed below for batch upload. If filenames differ, use the named individual slots. Submit one Chapter DOCX, not two alternatives. Replacing a file resets the final content check; earlier published revisions remain available.

Permissions are verified before upload. There are no repeated per-file permission confirmations. Confirm publication permissions once for the entire revision in Review & publish.

The Chapter DOCX supplies the reading text automatically. Do not paste the full text or upload a second copy. Use Review uploaded chapter or Publication preview to inspect it. To revise it, replace the Chapter DOCX in Chapter package. Earlier metadata exports can be imported into this same workflow.

Keep one source language and matching revision across all files. If using a combined Outline DOCX, put the outline before a unique Questions heading. Otherwise upload the outline and a separate Chapter QA DOCX. The Q&A content must include a distinct Answers heading followed by the authored explanations. Word heading styles are helpful; the portal also recognizes common formatted headings.

Formatting and credits

Use Word heading styles to express the intended hierarchy; retain meaningful emphasis, lists, tables, and clinical content. The reading layout starts at the first substantive section heading, omitting the opening preamble, abstract, keywords, and revision notices. Credits are retained at the end in the standard format. Original uploaded files and saved translations remain unchanged. The site uses one display style for authored and generated materials. Inconsistent or ambiguous source styling should be raised with the editor, not interpreted as a new design direction.

Remove production instructions and unresolved placeholders before publication. Preserve teaching context and clinical cautions. Put the source-history paragraph and production-credit paragraph at the end of the full chapter. Elsewhere use only the production credit, shortened when appropriate. Credits must use this chapter’s actual contributors.

The slide reader retains the authored slide order, titles, bullet lists and tables. Decorative section badges and repeated deck footers do not become slide text. Speaker notes are available separately beneath each slide. The original PowerPoint is preserved.

Textbook style sheet

Chapter 1, Child and Adolescent Development, is the visual master for all chapter reading views and Editorial Studio previews. The same presentation rules apply to existing translations and future uploads.

Body text uses Georgia, with Times New Roman and serif fallbacks, at 18 px with 1.85 line spacing; on narrow screens it uses 17 px. Chapter titles use regular-weight Georgia at 30–38 px. Section headings use the same size and family as body text, in bold, with no numbering. Source heading levels remain meaningful for navigation and accessibility.

Use sentence-style capitalization for headings. The reader converts all-capital headings to normal case while retaining recognized clinical abbreviations. A short standalone bold heading receives the same appearance as a Word heading. Do not use capitals, font changes, or extra bold to create another heading scale.

Bold identifies section headings, table headers, and meaningful inline emphasis. Italics retain their meaning for terms, titles, and qualifications. Inline emphasis does not change font size. Tables, figures, doses, age ranges, numbered questions, answer choices, and ordered clinical steps retain their labels and numbers.

The chapter begins at its first substantive section, without the opening preamble, abstract, keywords, or revision notices. Chapter-specific credits appear once at the end in compact 15 px serif type. Preserve the actual source authors, edition history, production director, and editor when supplied.

The site enforces these rules when displaying text and preparing downloads, without rewriting uploaded documents, saved passages, or translations. PDF downloads use embedded Liberation Serif, compact bold headings at the body size, and the same bold and italic distinctions. Original Word and PowerPoint files remain available in their supplied form.

Review the authored reader views

Open Authored supplements to inspect Outline, Quiz, Case, and Slides. Text is extracted directly and displayed with the same headings, lists, tables, and quiz styling as generated projections, without model rewriting. The quiz retains its authored question count, wording, option letters, and explanations. The supplied Bipolar/DMDD example has ten A–D questions; it is not converted into a twelve-question A–E quiz. The Case view includes Discussion questions as a plain numbered list, separate from the Quiz. The Answers and discussion section stays in the original file and is excluded from sources for additional projections; the dedicated Quiz keeps its authored questions.

Where question and answer structure is recognized reliably, readers select answers and reveal the author’s explanations. Otherwise the complete authored quiz text remains readable. When Q&A is included in the outline, a missing or ambiguous Questions boundary must be corrected before publication. A separate Q&A file does not need that boundary.

Slides displays the author’s slide text and speaker notes, with navigation through the deck. Download the original PPTX for its precise layout, illustrations, and formatting. This view does not generate or rewrite the slides.

Word previews preserve text order and simple tables. Complex tables, footnotes, automatic numbering, embedded images, and layout require comparison with the original. Correct content in the original file rather than relying on a generated replacement.

Download full text stays in the reader toolbar and supplies a PDF of the complete chapter in the textbook reading layout, with references and credits at the end. It uses the current chapter revision without AI rewriting. Word remains the submission format; the original Chapter DOCX is available in Editorial studio. Supplement downloads are in the reader toolbar for the selected view, without download boxes beneath the heading.

Request an additional projection as an author

In the chapter’s Additional projections step, select one or more entries from the volume catalogue. The initial list is Family handout, Teaching session, Glossary, Comparison table, and Translation. Editors can add, edit, or retire entries.

Optionally describe the audience or focus. This refines the selected format and cannot override its editorial specification or source limits. Choose the output languages. Translation is a complete chapter translation into a language other than the source language. Editors can also use the Translations panel in All chapters to prepare French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese editions of the main text and author-prepared outline, quiz, case, slide text and speaker notes. Draft translations stay private until the chapter is published.

Use Text only to restrict generation to the chapter. Text and beyond permits the uploaded teaching sources and any contextual additions allowed by Volume settings. Live web research requires the volume switch. The authored outline, questions and explanations, case report, and extracted slide text and speaker notes are included as reusable sources for Text and beyond requests. The private changelog and binary files are excluded from generation.

Generate each selected output. AI translations carry a visible notice that they have not been independently verified and do not require translation review sign-off. For other additional outputs, inspect them and choose Open output → Mark reviewed. Regeneration is required only when the primary chapter text changes. Metadata, supplements, focus, catalogue, and volume settings do not trigger it. Older outputs can be approved against the current text to establish their baseline. Regenerate optionally replaces an output and resets its review. Final editorial and publication checks still apply. Uploading never generates materials automatically.

Volume settings for editors

Open Volume settings from the Editorial studio heading. The catalogue, editorial controls, instructions, maximum source scope, live web research setting, and reader-request setting are shared across the volume. Authors cannot edit these controls from a chapter.

Save changed rules, interpret the editorial instructions, and review and accept the interpretation. The built-in starting controls have a deterministic interpretation. Additional narrative rules require interpretation and acceptance before generation.

Catalogue entries have a stable identity. Edit their names and instructions or retire them to stop new requests. Do not create a second chapter-specific format catalogue. Previously published outputs remain available after an entry is retired.

Every new generation uses the current volume settings, including requests on existing published chapters. Existing approved outputs are retained as published; they are not silently regenerated. A new chapter revision uses current settings for its selected generated outputs.

Request an additional projection as a reader

Below the chapter, select Request an additional projection. Choose from the active volume catalogue, optionally specify an audience or focus, and select Text only or Text and beyond. For Translation, enter a target language.

Reader generation requires sign-in and the volume reader-request switch. If generation is disabled, the request panel explains this. Readers cannot edit the catalogue or widen the source scope. Request results are labeled and do not become part of the approved chapter. Usage limits may require a later retry.

Final review and publication

In Review & publish, confirm permissions once for the complete revision. Complete the separate final content and consistency check after inspecting the text, four supplements, all slides and notes, credits, references, and any optional private changelog. Resolve placeholders, production markers, and open content issues before approval.

Check contributor credits, including Edited by placeholders. A byline is not evidence of approval of the portal revision. Automated file checks do not verify clinical accuracy, reference validity, or visual layout.

An author can submit for editor review. Only an editor can sign off and publish. Separate author sign-off remains optional under the existing implementation. Future delegation of approval responsibilities or exceptions remains an explicit editorial decision; this update does not assign new account roles.

Publication includes the full text, four authored supplements and their original downloads, plus any selected current reviewed generated additions. Any supplied changelog stays private. Opening a published chapter in Editorial studio starts or resumes an editable draft, with Additional projections available in the sidebar. The published revision remains available until the editor publishes the changes.

Production requirements

Use this production guidance when preparing or revising a chapter package. Preserve existing typography where appropriate. The portal accepts the authored question count and options; an optional changelog can record substantive editorial exceptions.

Package and file names

Four or five content files per topic, plus an optional private materials changelog:

<Topic>_Chapter.docx

<Topic>_Chapter_Outline.docx (outline, with Q&A included or separate)

<Topic>_Case_Report.docx

<Topic>_Chapter_Slide_Deck.pptx

<Topic>_Materials_Changelog.docx (optional)

Topic in file names uses underscores (e.g., Problematic_Internet_Use).

Optional separate questions file: <Topic>_Chapter_QA.docx. This supplies Quiz when questions are not included in the outline; keep one authoritative set of questions.

Credits and byline

Full chapter: place two paragraphs at the end. First identify the earlier source chapter or chapters and their authors, preserving edition and year details only when supplied. Then state how the current synthesis was produced and identify its director and editor or reviewer using the roles actually supplied.

Outline, quiz, case, slides, and other projections: use only the production-credit paragraph at the end. A shorter version may be used in compact footers. Do not repeat contributor blocks above each projection.

Never substitute contributors from another chapter. Remove empty Edited by placeholders from reader displays; retain unresolved attribution questions for editorial review.

Word files

Left: JM Rey's IACAPAP AI Corpus.

Right: material label, two spaces, then the PAGE field. Labels: <Topic> (chapter), <Topic> Outline, <Topic> Case Report, <Topic> Changelog.

The right part is flush with the right margin: use a right tab at the text width (page width minus left and right margins) and clear any inherited center/right tabs from the footer style.

The page number uses the same font, size, and color as the footer labels (give the field runs the same run properties).

Slide deck

Same left and right text; the right footer box is right-aligned with margins mirroring the left, followed by the slide number field in the same font and size.

No autofit shrinking of footer text (zero insets, no fontScale).

Chapter and section numbering

Assigned chapter numbers remain in the textbook contents and chapter metadata. Section headings are unnumbered. Preserve source-edition identifiers when needed for accurate credits, and retain table, figure, question, list, and slide navigation numbers.

Text and style

Plain section titles; no numbered headings.

Serial commas in headings and lists (e.g., Neurodiversity, culture, and equity).

No em dashes in prose.

Final files contain no production markers (NEW, [NEW: ...], TODO), no colored revisions, no tracked changes, and no comments (including hidden Google Docs comment anchors and round-trip comment data). An optional private changelog can record the provenance of new material.

Non-stigmatizing, person-centered language.

State the population for any prevalence figure (general population vs. users/players vs. children and adolescents) and note measurement dependence.

Describe treatment efficacy comparisons in terms of effect sizes, not "potency" (potency is dose-related).

Length and scope

The chapter is a synthesis for clinicians, not an encyclopedic review: about 5,000 words, counting body text and tables but not the reference list.

Choose what to keep by clinical usefulness: what a clinician needs to assess, decide, treat, and counsel. Summarize research history and study-by-study detail rather than reproducing it.

Condense required tables to their essential rows; a table should replace prose, not repeat it.

An optional changelog can retain material cut from the source for length (detail, extra studies, extra references).

The outline, case report, and deck follow the chapter as trimmed.

Global applicability (low- and middle-income settings)

The textbook is read worldwide, including in countries with very few child and adolescent psychiatrists. For every assessment and treatment recommendation, consider feasibility in low- and middle-income settings:

Do not make recommendations depend on resources that are often unavailable outside university or high-income settings (for example, formal psychoeducational or IQ testing, speech therapy, specialist-only prescribing). Where such a resource is ideal, give a pragmatic alternative (e.g., treat the primary condition first and reassess; clinical screening for intellectual disability using developmental history, adaptive functioning, and teacher report).

Where specialists are scarce, state when trained pediatricians or primary care physicians can reasonably initiate and monitor treatment, and what monitoring is required.

Mention WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML/EMLc) status briefly and in context, not in a dedicated section or table. State listing status accurately (e.g., "not listed for <condition>"), and where an EML decision has been contested by experts or professional bodies, acknowledge and cite that critique. Do not treat a WHO EML decision document as a key or headline reference.

References and citations

About 20 curated references, chosen for the highest clinical yield: current classification manuals, key guidelines and consensus statements, recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and landmark or practice-changing studies. Prefer a recent systematic review over the individual studies it covers. Every in-text citation must appear in the curated list; an optional changelog can list additional sources.

Every reference gives authors, title, journal, year;volume:pages, and DOI where available. No reference without authors.

Curated references are annotated: each reference in the chapter's Curated references list is followed, in the same entry, by one or two sentences in italics saying what the source contributes and why a reader would consult it (e.g., what it found, recommends, or covers, and any caveat such as a wider population). Annotations must be accurate to the source and must not overstate findings.

Verify any PMID or DOI against the article record before citing it; never pair one paper's PMID with another's citation.

Recent evidence integrated into the text is cited in the chapter reference list. It may also be named in an optional changelog.

Search the literature from the past five years systematically across all sections (not only epidemiology and pharmacology): systematic reviews, meta-analyses, guidelines, major trials, and policy changes. Add what changes clinical understanding or practice, if and as needed; the aim is a current chapter, not a longer one. Where recent evidence contradicts or qualifies the source, say so in the chapter. An optional changelog can also record the change.

Only state etiological factors supported by systematic reviews or meta-analyses; correct common myths explicitly (e.g., sugar as a cause of ADHD) and keep each cited finding within the scope of its source (do not graft a point from one paper onto an unrelated argument).

Consistency across files

Every change to the chapter is propagated to the outline, case report, and deck.

Diagnostic statements carry the same qualifiers everywhere (e.g., duration requirements and their exceptions).

Any table likely to be reproduced (e.g., core distinctions) carries all defining elements, and the deck version matches the chapter.

Chapter

About 5,000 words (see Length and scope). Title, original-authors line, byline, short abstract paragraph, then plain-titled sections ending with Summary, a summary table, Curated references (annotated, see above), and External resources.

Integrates the current ICD-11 CDDR and DSM-5-TR framing, recent evidence, development, culture and equity, assessment, formulation, treatment (psychosocial and medication), family, school, prevention, prognosis, and follow-up as relevant.

Clinical presentation in a structured, practical format: describe what symptoms actually look like day to day (concrete behaviors), by setting (home, school, peers) and by developmental stage, ideally in a table; cover associated features that often drive referral, how to document impairment concretely, and pitfalls such as a calm presentation in a brief office visit.

Differential diagnosis given explicit emphasis: distinguish mimics (another condition better explains the symptoms) from comorbidity (another condition is present as well), and include a table of the main alternatives with the features that point toward each, plus the medical screening needed and when tests are or are not indicated.

Comorbidity: name the most frequent co-occurring conditions with prevalence figures and state which ones every assessment should screen for.

Medication dosing: include a dosing table (starting dose, titration, usual maximum, practical notes) for the main medications, with a note that licensed doses and formulations differ by country and local formularies and labeling should be checked.

Prediction tools: where a validated tool exists (e.g., a persistence risk calculator), give its inputs, how to access it, and how to interpret its output.

Outline and Q&A

The outline summarizes the chapter sections in self-contained bullets.

Include single-best-answer questions with their authored option letters, followed by an Answers section with explanations. Question count follows the approved chapter package; the portal does not require twelve questions or five answer choices.

Distribute correct answers across the available options and cover diagnostic requirements and differential diagnosis where relevant.

Case report

Fictional composite teaching case.

The formulation addresses duration and thresholds before stating the diagnostic conclusion.

Every plan element referenced in follow-up appears in the plan; needs noted in the history (e.g., learning needs) are addressed in management.

Include Discussion questions as a plain numbered list in the Case view. Keep the Answers and discussion section in the original Case Report only. These prompts are not quiz questions.

Assessment and management steps are feasible in the case's setting (see Global applicability); where the chapter describes a prediction tool, the case shows how to use it.

Slide deck

Every slide has speaker notes: a 2 to 4 sentence spoken talking point, then Sources: with full citations (including PMID only when verified).

Include an epidemiology slide whenever the chapter covers epidemiology.

Badge glyphs sit inside their circle, centered (algn ctr, anchor ctr, zero insets), at 20 pt bold or larger, high contrast.

Optional materials changelog

If you choose to supply a changelog, suggested sections are: Source materials; Synthesis decisions; Newly integrated evidence (table); Clinical expansions; Medication review; Corrections and editorial decisions; Material and references moved out of the chapter for length; Editorial review (once reviewed: editor, date, each reviewer comment with its resolution, and changes per file); Open items for editorial review; Quality checks and production specifications (restating these specs as they apply).

Quality checks before delivery

1. Validate every .docx and .pptx.

2. Render every Word page and every slide to images and inspect them, including footers.

3. Search all files (text runs, footers, notes) for production markers, revision colors, comments, and chapter or section numbers.

4. Confirm bylines, footer labels, and page or slide numbers in every file.

5. Confirm that each reference and verified PMID matches its article, and that every curated reference carries its annotation.

6. Count the chapter's words (body and tables, excluding references) and curated references; aim for about 5,000 words and about 20 references, and optionally record both counts in a changelog.

Final portal checklist

The original chapter package files, complete credits, chapter citation and reuse terms, four authored reader views, original slides and notes, cross-file consistency, and any optional private changelog have been inspected. Permissions are confirmed once at final review. Selected generated outputs are current and reviewed under the volume rules. Only an editor publishes.

The portal checks file roles, format, ownership, checksums, required text boundaries, current generation rules, and final review flags. Clinical accuracy, reference validity, visual layout, and outstanding substantive editorial issues require human review.

Optional use of your own AI tool

If you use an AI tool to prepare the chapter package, give it this entire specification and the authorized source materials. Ask it to follow the production requirements, preserve existing typography, and return the four or five named content files, plus a materials changelog only if you want one. It must flag missing evidence, permissions, contributor details, and editorial decisions; it must not invent them. You remain responsible for checking the resulting materials. No separate AI prompt download or JSON conversion is required.