Journal of Developmental and Social Psychology

For Authors

The headers below are suggestions for information that many journals find helpful to include on their For Authors page. You are not required to fill in all of the headers, this is just a suggested outline.

Article types

If your journal accepts multiple types of submissions, like: research articles, commentaries, and case studies, outline and define those article types here.

Submission requirements

Manuscript Format

  • Anonymization requirements — if your journal administers double-blind review, make clear to authors that their Manuscript File should have identifying information removed
  • Style guide used by the journal, like APA Style, 7th edition
  • Maximum word count
  • Font, text size, and spacing requirements
  • Figures/tables/illustrations requirements (e.g. how should labels be formatted, how should figures/tables be numbered, should figures be embedded in the manuscript file or attached separately, etc.)

Additional required files
Do you require that authors submit a cover letter, author biographies, disclosures of potential conflicts of interest, etc.? If so, make that clear in your For Author guidelines so authors know what you expect of them.

Editorial and Peer Review Process

Brief overview of your screening and review process, specifying who sees the paper at which points and how final decisions are made on the paper.

Publication details

After a manuscript has gone through peer review and been accepted for publication are there: charges the author should know about, a timeframe the author can expect for publication turnaround, copy-editing and revision work needed from the author, additional files required by the journal?

Who holds the copyright for the article and what is that copyright license?