Aims and scope
Behavioral Sleep Medicine addresses behavioral dimensions of the fundamental scientific understanding of normal/healthy and abnormal/unhealthy sleep and wake mechanisms and regulation, and utilizes established behavioral principles to assess, treat, and prevent sleep disorders, sleep-related symptoms, and associated behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and physiological and mental health problems in children and adults. Research published in BSM across a variety of disciplines and from a broad set of perspectives and the dissemination of that evidence-based science, contribute to the body of knowledge in these areas, and is also applicable to public health and safety, policy making, and sleep education with the overall goal of improving quality of life through sleep.

Standards for interventions acceptable to this journal are guided by established principles of behavior change. Intending to serve as the intellectual home for the application of behavioral/cognitive science to the study of normal and disordered sleep, the journal paints a broad stroke across the behavioral sleep medicine landscape. Its content includes scholarly investigation of such areas as normal sleep experience, cross-cultural sleep practices, sleep health education, relationship of daytime functioning to sleep, and dreams in a wide variety of adult and pediatric populations across the lifespan. The journal also focuses on research related to insomnia and on primary behavioral/cognitive aspects of sleep disorders such as sleep disordered breathing, parasomnias, circadian rhythm disorders, and narcolepsy and central hypersomnias; these behavioral/cognitive aspects include patient and family perspectives, care-seeking behaviors, development, application and efficacy of assessment tools and behavioral interventions, and treatment adherence to behavioral, medical and pharmacologic therapies. Multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome, as is diversity in geographic locations, populations studied, and research methodologies, including both quantitative and qualitative methods as well as implementation science.

Reports acceptable to this journal follow standards for measurement and data analysis, and conventions for scientific writing and clinical case reports (e.g., CARE guidelines-see below for citation*), as well as ethical considerations in the use humans and animals as research subjects and the reporting of patient data (per APA, AMA, other).