Journal of Abnormal Psychology® Editor: David Watson, PhD ISSN: 0021-843x Published Quarterly, beginning in February

Instructions to Authors

Please consult APA's Instructions for All Authors for information regarding

• Manuscript Preparation
• Submitting Supplemental Materials
• Abstract and Keywords
• References
• Figures
• Permissions
• Publication Policies
• Ethical Principles

Submission

Submit manuscripts electronically (in .rtf or .doc format) via the Manuscript Submission Portal.

David Watson, PhD Editor, Journal of Abnormal Psychology Department of Psychology The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242-1407

General correspondence may be directed to the Editor's Office.

In addition to postal addresses and telephone numbers, please supply electronic mail addresses and fax numbers, if available, for potential use by the editorial and production offices.

Keep a copy of the manuscript to guard against loss.

Masked Reviews

Masked reviews are optional and must be specifically requested in the cover letter accompanying the submission. For masked reviews, the manuscript must include a separate title page with the authors' names and affiliations, and these ought not to appear anywhere else in the manuscript.

Footnotes that identify the authors must be typed on a separate page.

Make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to authors' identities.

Types of Articles

Most of the articles published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology are reports of original research, but other types of articles are acceptable.

• Short Reports of replications or of failures to replicate previously reported results are given serious consideration.
• Comments on articles published in the journal are also considered.
• Case studies from either a clinical setting or a laboratory will be considered if they raise or illustrate important questions that go beyond the single case and have heuristic value.
• Manuscripts that present or discuss theoretical formulations of psychopathology, or that evaluate competing theoretical formulations on the basis of published data, may also be accepted.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology publishes articles on basic research and theory in the broad field of abnormal behavior, its determinants, and its correlates.

The following general topics fall within its area of major focus:

1. psychopathology - its etiology, development, symptomatology, and course
2. normal processes in abnormal individuals
3. pathological or atypical features of the behavior of normal persons
4. experimental studies, with human or animal subjects, relating to disordered emotional behavior or pathology
5. sociocultural effects on pathological processes, including the influence of gender and ethnicity
6. tests of hypotheses from psychological theories that relate to abnormal behavior

Thus, studies of patient populations, analyses of abnormal behavior and motivation in terms of modern behavior theories, case histories, and theoretical papers of scholarly substance on deviant personality and emotional abnormality would all fall within the boundaries of the journal's interests.

Each article should represent an addition to knowledge and understanding of abnormal behavior in its etiology, description, or change.

In order to improve the use of journal resources, it has been agreed by the two Editors concerned that the Journal of Abnormal Psychology will not consider articles dealing with diagnosis or treatment of abnormal behavior, and the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology will not consider articles dealing with the etiology or descriptive pathology of abnormal behavior.

Therefore, a study that focuses primarily on treatment efficacy should be submitted to the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. However, a longitudinal study focusing on developmental influences or origins of abnormal behavior should be submitted to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Articles will be published in five different sections of the Journal: Brief Reports, Regular Articles, Extended Articles, Case Studies, and Commentaries:

• Brief Reports must not exceed 5,000 words in overall length. This limit includes all aspects of the manuscript (title page, abstract, text, references, tables, author notes and footnotes, appendices, figure captions) except figures. Brief Reports also may include a maximum of two figures. For Brief Reports, the length limits are exact and must be strictly followed.
• Regular Articles typically should not exceed 9,000 words in overall length (excluding figures).
• Extended Articles are published within regular issues of the Journal (they are not free-standing) and are reserved for manuscripts that require extended exposition beyond the normal length restrictions of a Regular Article. Typically, Extended Articles will report multiple experiments, multifaceted longitudinal studies, cross-disciplinary investigations, or studies that are extraordinarily complex in terms of methodology or analysis. Any submission that exceeds a total of 12,000 words in length automatically will be considered for publication as an Extended Article.
• Case Studies and Commentaries have the same length requirements as Brief Reports.

Cover Letters

Components of all cover letters will contain the following:

1. the full postal and email address of the corresponding author;
2. the complete telephone and fax numbers of the same;
3. the proposed category under which the manuscript was submitted;
4. a request for masked review, if desired, along with a statement ensuring that the manuscript was prepared in accordance with the guidelines above.

Authors should also specify the overall length of the manuscript (in words) and indicate the number of tables and figures that are included in the manuscript.