Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
• If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
• Manuscript adheres to the 7th edition of APA referencing style and is managed with referencing manager tool.
• All material in the manuscript has been properly cited, is free of plagiarism, and the production right for the copyrighted material has been obtained.
• There is no author-identifying information in the manuscript.
• All authors are mentioned in the first submission in the appropriate order. Changes in authors' names/order are not usually allowed and are only permitted under specific consideration by the editor.
• A separate title page has been prepared, containing all authors' information, funding information, acknowledgment, and conflict of interest.
• The title of the article must be concise and straightforward (no more than 18 words) and intriguing (unlike the thesis formal title, "relationship between", etc.). The title must imply the psychological nature of the research and the research problems being tested.