Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- 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 does not contain substantial portions of the author’s work that has been published elsewhere, nor does it contain substantial portions of others’ previously published work.
- The submitted article is properly anonymized and submitted in an editable format such as a Microsoft Word (.docx) or OpenOffice (.odt) file. Please include all sections of your manuscript (e.g., Tables, Figures, Appendices, etc.) in one file. It is also important to check for and remove identifying information from the metadata of your document by following the steps below: Microsoft Word for Windows: Go to File Select Info Click on Check for Issues Click on Inspect Document In the Document Inspector dialog box, select the check boxes to choose the type of hidden content that you want inspected. Click Remove All Click Close Save the document Microsoft Word for MacOS: Go to Tools Click Protect Document Select Remove personal information for this file on save Click OK and save the file IMPORTANT NOTE ON ANONYMIZATION: Authors should anonymize their submissions by referring to themselves in the 3rd person, just like they do for all other references. So instead of replacing their names with "Author," they should simply say, for example, "Warschauer (2001) showed that ..." and include the full citation in the References.
- The submission does not contain links (URLs) to sites that reveal the identity of the authors.
- The submitted article is no more than 8,500 words in length, including references and a 200-word abstract. Appendices, not included in the 8,500 words, should be limited to 1,500 words. Lengthy appendices should be included as hyperlinks. Titles of articles should not exceed 10 words and should be adequately descriptive of the content of the article. Forum articles should be no more than 5,000 words in length and commentaries no more than 3,000 words in length.
- The submitted article conforms to the requirements of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition).
- We acknowledge that if we have used AI tools in the writing of our manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, we disclosed in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. We further acknowledge that we are fully responsible for the content of our manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.
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